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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Country | United States |
Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._and_James_L._Knight_Foundation |
Facebook username | knightfdn |
Website | https://knightfoundation.org/ |
Donations URL | https://knightfoundation.org/grants |
Twitter username | knightfdn |
Page on philosophy informing donations | https://knightfoundation.org/about |
Grant application process page | https://knightfoundation.org/apply/ |
Data entry method on Donations List Website | SQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/knight-foundation |
Full donor page for donor Knight Foundation
We do not have any donee information for the donee City of Boston in our system.
Full donee page for donee City of Boston
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Cause area | Count | Median | Mean | Minimum | 10th percentile | 20th percentile | 30th percentile | 40th percentile | 50th percentile | 60th percentile | 70th percentile | 80th percentile | 90th percentile | Maximum |
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Overall | 1 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 |
Technology | 1 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 | 475,000 |
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 |
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Technology (filter this donor) | 1 | 0.00 |
Total | 1 | 0.00 |
Skipping spending graph as there is at most one year’s worth of donations.
There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.
Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations
Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 1) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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475,000.00 | 1 | -- | Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/6711 | -- | Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 02/06/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Turning Boston's open data collection into an accessible resource by working with Boston Public Library to catalog it and introduce it to the public. Boston, like many cities, has published a collection of “open data” that includes everything from building permits to a list of urban farms. The data tells a story about government and city life. Public interest in the data is clear -- with more than 14,000 views so far of neighborhood pothole data alone. But as with many forms of knowledge, making something available isn’t the same as making it useful. Through this project the city of Boston will work with local libraries to create a digital data catalog that will make it easier for residents, researchers and public employees to navigate. Once developed, the city and libraries will work together to introduce people to the resource, through, for example, introductory classes or data challenges where people are encouraged to analyze and visualize the data. |