John Templeton Foundation donations made to University of Cambridge

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country United States
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Templeton_Foundation
Facebook username TempletonFoundation
Websitehttps://www.templeton.org/
Donations URLhttps://www.templeton.org/grants
Twitter usernametempleton_fdn
Page on philosophy informing donationshttps://www.templeton.org/about/vision-mission-impact
Grant application process pagehttps://www.templeton.org/grants/apply-for-grant
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteSQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/templeton-foundation

This entity is also a donee.

Full donor page for donor John Templeton Foundation

Basic donee information

ItemValue
Country
Facebook page cambridge.university
Websitehttp://www.cam.ac.uk
Twitter usernamecambridge_uni
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge
Instagram usernamecambridgeuniversity
Medium username@cambridge_uni
Org Watch pagehttps://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=University+of+Cambridge

Full donee page for donee University of Cambridge

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 6 217,242 268,618 184,587 184,587 192,282 192,282 217,242 217,242 237,581 260,976 260,976 519,040 519,040
Philosophy and Theology 2 184,587 188,435 184,587 184,587 184,587 184,587 184,587 184,587 192,282 192,282 192,282 192,282 192,282
Natural Sciences 3 237,581 238,600 217,242 217,242 217,242 217,242 237,581 237,581 237,581 260,976 260,976 260,976 260,976
Human Sciences 1 519,040 519,040 519,040 519,040 519,040 519,040 519,040 519,040 519,040 519,040 519,040 519,040 519,040

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 2015 2013 2012 2011
Natural Sciences (filter this donor) 3 715,799.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 237,581.00 478,218.00
Human Sciences (filter this donor) 1 519,040.00 0.00 519,040.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Philosophy and Theology (filter this donor) 2 376,869.00 192,282.00 0.00 184,587.00 0.00 0.00
Total 6 1,611,708.00 192,282.00 519,040.00 184,587.00 237,581.00 478,218.00

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 (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
192,282.0052016Philosophy and Theologyhttps://templeton.org/grants/grant-database-- For project The Mind-Body Problem and Conservation Laws: From A Priori to A Posteriori; Project leaders: James Pitts,. Affected regions: Europe; affected countries: FIXME.
519,040.0012015Human Scienceshttps://templeton.org/grants/grant-database-- For project Enhancing children’s capacity for empathy through musical interaction; Project leaders: Ian Cross. Affected regions: Europe; affected countries: FIXME.
184,587.0062013Philosophy and Theologyhttps://templeton.org/grants/grant-database-- For project Space-time Theory in Light of Particle Physics and Einstein’s Physical Strategy; Project leaders: James Pitts. Affected regions: Europe; affected countries: FIXME.
237,581.0032012Natural Scienceshttps://templeton.org/grants/grant-database-- For project Detecting God’s Action: Theory-Testing and Theory-Building Regarding the Hypersensitive Agency Detection Device (HADD); Project leaders: James Laidlaw,Kirsten Barnes. Affected regions: Europe; affected countries: FIXME.
217,242.0042011Natural Scienceshttps://templeton.org/grants/grant-database-- For project Mathematical Characterization of Quantum Reality; Project leaders: Adrian Kent,Jonathan Oppenheim. Affected regions: Europe; affected countries: FIXME.
260,976.0022011Natural Scienceshttps://templeton.org/grants/grant-database-- For project Becoming Human: the Emergence of Meaning; Project leaders: Colin Renfrew. Affected regions: Europe; affected countries: FIXME.