Knight Foundation donations made to Code for America Labs

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Basic donor information

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Country United States
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._and_James_L._Knight_Foundation
Facebook username knightfdn
Websitehttps://knightfoundation.org/
Donations URLhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants
Twitter usernameknightfdn
Page on philosophy informing donationshttps://knightfoundation.org/about
Grant application process pagehttps://knightfoundation.org/apply/
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteSQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/knight-foundation

This entity is also a donee.

Full donor page for donor Knight Foundation

Basic donee information

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Full donee page for donee Code for America Labs

Donor–donee relationship

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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 7 250,000 1,220,000 75,000 75,000 210,000 235,000 235,000 250,000 750,000 750,000 2,000,000 5,020,000 5,020,000
Communities 5 250,000 1,266,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 235,000 235,000 250,000 250,000 750,000 750,000 5,020,000 5,020,000
Technology 1 210,000 210,000 210,000 210,000 210,000 210,000 210,000 210,000 210,000 210,000 210,000 210,000 210,000
1 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000

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 2018
(filter this donor) 1 2,000,000.00 2,000,000.00
Communities (filter this donor) 5 0.00 0.00
Technology (filter this donor) 1 0.00 0.00
Total 7 2,000,000.00 2,000,000.00

Skipping spending graph as there is at most one year’s worth of donations.

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
2,000,000.0022018-07-02--https://knightfoundation.org/grants/8160-- Grant period: 07/01/2018 - 06/30/2020; goal: To support the Code for America brigade network, a national alliance of community organizers, developers and designers that are putting technology to work in community.
75,000.007--Communitieshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6468-- Grant period: 09/23/2014 - 09/22/2015; goal: To support the launch of a Code for America 2015 Fellowship with Miami-Dade County government, which will be the first first CfA Fellows class in Florida. In Miami, Code for America will assemble a team of three fellows for 11 months of service to help address core civic issues. The fellowship will begin in January 2015, with a month-long training session in San Francisco, following which fellows will travel to Miami to take on a residency with local government. During the residency fellows will work with officials and residents to identify specific government challenges and devise ideas to solve them. They will then start developing technology solutions to tackle these challenges. Projects will be presented in October 2015 at the Code for America Summit.
210,000.006--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6247-- Grant period: 01/14/2014 - 08/13/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To extend and publicly launch Ohana API, a tool for organizing and publishing databases of social services available in a particular community. Launched in beta in San Mateo County, Calif., this Code for America project connects the public with community resources through one centralized database. Need help paying for food, finding affordable healthcare or connecting with a social worker? Ohana, an open source project functioning much like a 2-1-1 service, can help people locate the services they need, display them on a map and make them easily printable. This database unites information on health, human and social services that are often kept in separate silos, making localized results difficult to find. Exposing the data through a web API, the tool allows users to quickly access targeted community information through applications like search engines, smart phones, or SMS. With challenge funding, Ohana will enhance its service to build and host an easy-to-implement tool.
5,020,000.001--Communitieshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5684-- Grant period: 12/10/2012 - 12/09/2017; goal: For Code for America's work focused on rewiring government to better engage with citizens using innovative technology solutions The self-described “Peace Corps for Geeks” is building a network of cities, citizens, community groups and startups committed to helping government work better for everyone. With new Knight funding, Code for America will expand one of its four programs to 13 communities. The organization, which has helped accelerate innovation in local governments, will also redeploy the successful apps and platforms it develops to more communities.
750,000.003--Communitieshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5263-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 06/30/2013; goal: To support our strategy of investing in citizen-centered solutions in three Knight communities by piloting the Code for America model, which deploys technology professionals to develop original solutions that engage citizens in community challenges.
235,000.005--Communitieshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5262-- Grant period: 06/01/2011 - 05/31/2012; goal: To build an online catalog of applications that local governments and community leaders can use to locate, understand and deploy the best available tools for community engagement.
250,000.004--Communitieshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4891-- Grant period: 06/14/2010 - 06/30/2011; goal: To support a program that increases engagement and transparency in government by asking top developers and designers to become CFA fellows, giving a year of service in city governments, including two Knight communities.