Ford Foundation donations made to WNET

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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 WNET in our system.

Full donee page for donee WNET

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 11 361,141 323,740 50,000 100,000 150,000 250,000 250,000 361,141 400,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000
FIXME 11 361,141 323,740 50,000 100,000 150,000 250,000 250,000 361,141 400,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000

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 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
FIXME (filter this donor) 11 3,561,141.00 250,000.00 611,141.00 150,000.00 1,000,000.00 550,000.00 500,000.00 500,000.00
Total 11 3,561,141.00 250,000.00 611,141.00 150,000.00 1,000,000.00 550,000.00 500,000.00 500,000.00

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)

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (11 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 11)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
250,000.0072017-07-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For "Chasing the Dream: Poverty and Opportunity in America," a new multi-platform media initiative to educate the public on inequality and the social cost of poverty in America. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
250,000.0072016-07-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For "Chasing the Dream: Poverty and Opportunity in America," a new multi-platform media initiative to educate the public on inequality and the social cost of poverty in America. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
361,141.0062016-02-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- To produce "Colombia – Bolivar's Children," a one-hour documentary about African descendants in Colombia, as part of the series “Black in Latin America”. Affected regions: 192###Central America###10@@@231###Colombia###10@@@1045###United States###80; @@@9177888###Black or African American@@@9177891###Latin American; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
150,000.0092015-12-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For licensing and promotion of “Birth of a Movement,” a documentary about the impact of the 1915 film “Birth of a Nation” on race relations in the United States. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@9177888###Black or African American; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
500,000.0012014-07-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For "Poverty: The Fifty Year War," a new multi-platform media public initiative on poverty in America. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
500,000.0012014-03-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- To produce "Finding Your Roots 2," a ten-part PBS documentary series featuring Henry Louis Gates that explores ancestry, personal identity and American history through the lens of various ethnicities. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@9177887###Racial ethnic minority; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
50,000.00112013-05-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the 2013 American Graduate Day telethon celebrating individuals and groups applying innovative, successful & replicable strategies, including expanded learning time, for keeping kids in school. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@9177888###Black or African American@@@9177891###Latin American; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
500,000.0012013-04-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- To produce "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross," a six-part PBS documentary series, for broadcast in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@9177888###Black or African American; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
500,000.0012012-11-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- To produce MetroFocus, a multi-platform news and information portal that provides the New York metropolitan area with coverage of critical issues that affect the region’s diverse communities. Affected regions: 242###Connecticut###10@@@692###New Jersey###10@@@696###New York###10@@@697###New York City###70; @@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
100,000.00102011-02-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the International Summit on The Future of Teaching to bring education ministers from higher performing countries together with their U.S. counterparts in working sessions on strengthening teaching. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
400,000.0052011-02-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- To produce, publicize and develop educational and outreach resources for “Exploring Our Roots,” a 10-part special series on race, ethnicity and identity written and presented by Dr. Henry Louis Gates. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.