Ford Foundation donations made to Washington University

This is an online portal with information on donations that were announced publicly (or have been shared with permission) that were of interest to Vipul Naik. The git repository with the code for this portal, as well as all the underlying data, is available on GitHub. All payment amounts are in current United States dollars (USD). The repository of donations is being seeded with an initial collation by Issa Rice as well as continued contributions from him (see his commits and the contract work page listing all financially compensated contributions to the site) but all responsibility for errors and inaccuracies belongs to Vipul Naik. Current data is preliminary and has not been completely vetted and normalized; if sharing a link to this site or any page on this site, please include the caveat that the data is preliminary (if you want to share without including caveats, please check with Vipul Naik). We expect to have completed the first round of development by the end of July 2024. See the about page for more details. Also of interest: pageview data on analytics.vipulnaik.com, tutorial in README, request for feedback to EA Forum.

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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

ItemValue
Country
Facebook page wustl
Websitehttp://www.wustl.edu/
Twitter usernamewustl
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_University_in_St._Louis
Instagram usernamewustl_official

Full donee page for donee Washington University

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 7 550,000 923,766 100,000 100,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 550,000 699,722 699,722 1,401,516 2,715,123 2,715,123
FIXME 7 550,000 923,766 100,000 100,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 550,000 699,722 699,722 1,401,516 2,715,123 2,715,123

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 2016 2014 2013 2012 2011 2009 2007
FIXME (filter this donor) 7 6,466,361.00 500,000.00 500,000.00 550,000.00 699,722.00 100,000.00 1,401,516.00 2,715,123.00
Total 7 6,466,361.00 500,000.00 500,000.00 550,000.00 699,722.00 100,000.00 1,401,516.00 2,715,123.00

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 (7 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 7)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
500,000.0052016-07-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Tie-off support for the Refund to Savings project to understand saving preferences and increase tax-time savings among low- and moderate-income households. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
500,000.0052014-07-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For Refund to Savings, a large-scale research project in partnership with Intuit and Duke University, to understand saving preferences and increase tax-time savings among low-income households. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
550,000.0042013-09-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the Center for Social Development to evaluate the impact and return on investment of employer-based financial wellness services and affordable small-dollar loans for low-income families. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
699,722.0032012-07-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the Refund to Savings initiative to test the potential for providing asset-building opportunities at scale as part of the online tax filing process. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
100,000.0072011-05-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the McDonnell International Scholars Academy to collaborate with Fudan University in a research, teaching and exchange program on new directions in American studies. Affected regions: 223###China, People's Republic of###50@@@1045###United States###50; 9177456###No Intention@@@; China; affected countries: FIXME.
1,401,516.0022009-09-20FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- To implement the SEED for Oklahoma Kids demonstration and identify its impact on low-income children and their families. Affected regions: 743###Oklahoma###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
2,715,123.0012007-09-20FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- To identify the impact of the Saving for Education, Entrepreneurship and Downpayment initiative on low-income children & their families & begin implementing the SEED for Oklahoma Kids demonstration. Affected regions: 743###Oklahoma###25@@@1045###United States###75; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.