Ford Foundation donations made to University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country United States
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Foundation
Facebook username FordFoundation
LinkedIn username ford-foundation
Websitehttps://www.fordfoundation.org
Donations URLhttps://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/
Twitter usernameFordFoundation
Page on philosophy informing donationshttps://www.fordfoundation.org/about-us/mission/
Grant application process pagehttps://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/idea-submission/
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteSQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/ford-foundation

Full donor page for donor Ford Foundation

Basic donee information

We do not have any donee information for the donee University of Wisconsin-Madison in our system.

Full donee page for donee University of Wisconsin-Madison

Donor–donee relationship

Item Value

Donor–donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 6 200,000 246,500 54,000 54,000 75,000 75,000 200,000 200,000 325,000 325,000 325,000 500,000 500,000
FIXME 6 200,000 246,500 54,000 54,000 75,000 75,000 200,000 200,000 325,000 325,000 325,000 500,000 500,000

Donation amounts by cause area and year

If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.

Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.

Cause area Number of donations Total 2014 2011 2009 2008 2007
FIXME (filter this donor) 6 1,479,000.00 75,000.00 200,000.00 325,000.00 554,000.00 325,000.00
Total 6 1,479,000.00 75,000.00 200,000.00 325,000.00 554,000.00 325,000.00

Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)

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Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)

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Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)

There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (6 donations)

Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
Amount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 6)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
75,000.0052014-07-15FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the State Smart Transportation Initiative to organize funders and transportation agencies to support development of analytic methods for advancing sustainable transportation using big data. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@9177887###Racial ethnic minority; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
200,000.0042011-12-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the Mayors Improvement Project to expand participation in & strengthen its meetings, expand its policy research & technical assistance programs and build an urban constituency at the federal level. Affected regions: 178###Canada###5@@@1045###United States###95; @@@9177887###Racial ethnic minority; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
325,000.0022009-03-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Final support for the Center for State Innovation to develop and communicate new equitable approaches in state economic development and policy. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@9177887###Racial ethnic minority@@@9177888###Black or African American@@@9177891###Latin American; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
500,000.0012008-08-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the Consortium for Policy Research in Education to conduct research on ways to develop and retain teacher talent and create successful schools. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
54,000.0062008-03-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For a symposium on "American Indian Curatorial Practice 2008" to identify challenges to American Indian arts curation & develop a plan to address marginalization of the field & publish the findings. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@9177892###Native American, American Indian, or Alaska Native; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
325,000.0022007-09-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the Commons Project to develop and communicate new equitable approaches in economic development. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.