Knight Foundation donations made to Digital Public Library of America

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
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

ItemValue
Country
Facebook page digitalpubliclibraryofamerica
Websitehttp://dp.la/
Twitter usernamedpla
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Public_Library_of_America
Tumblr subdomaindigitalpubliclibraryofamerica

Full donee page for donee Digital Public Library of America

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 2 300,000 917,896 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792
Technology 1 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000
Technology, Communities 1 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792

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
Technology, Communities (filter this donor) 1 0.00
Technology (filter this donor) 1 0.00
Total 2 0.00

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

Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)

There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (2 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 2)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
1,535,792.001--Technology, Communitieshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6736-- Grant period: 06/25/2015 - 12/31/2017; goal: To expand the Digital Public Library of America into all unserved states or regions, adding new hubs with unique items from these communities into DPLA's collection.
300,000.002--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6699-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a simplified and more coherent rights structure for content collections from libraries, museums, archives and other sources, along with best practices that institutions can use to safely make more content available to the public. Huge collections of content from libraries, museums, archives and other sources are freely accessible on the Web through the Digital Public Library of America, Europeana, Trove and other organizations. However, these collections lack consistency on people’s usage rights and are further weakened by inconsistent copyright law and aversion to risk by nonprofit institutions. Getting it Right on Rights will create a simplified and more coherent rights structure, along with best practices that institutions around the world can use to safely make more content available to the public. The project will include two international summits to convene experts in the field, from museum leaders to intellectual property lawyers and policymakers, the creation of a new digital rights standard and production of a best practices guide.