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| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 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
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | |
| Website | https://archive.org/ |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive |
| Org Watch page | https://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=Internet+Archive |
Full donee page for donee Internet Archive
| Item | Value |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 4 | 200,000 | 462,500 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 600,000 | 600,000 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Technology, Journalism | 1 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 |
| Technology | 3 | 600,000 | 600,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 600,000 | 600,000 | 600,000 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Technology (filter this donor) | 3 | 0.00 |
| Technology, Journalism (filter this donor) | 1 | 0.00 |
| Total | 4 | 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 4) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200,000.00 | 3 | -- | Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/6817 | -- | Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 11/16/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Bringing accountability to the voting process by creating a public library of TV news and political advertising from key 2016 primary election states,paired with nonpartisan fact-checking and additional analysis from PolitiFact,the University of Pennsylvania's FactCheck.org,The Center for Public Integrity and others. Voters are exposed to large amounts of campaign advertising, especially in key swing states. Though these ads are designed to influence and sway votes, little information is provided about their background and accuracy. To hold candidates accountable and bring more transparency to the voting process, the Internet Archive, with the world’s largest open archive of TV news, will create a public library of TV news and political ads from key 2016 primary election regions. The library will be paired with nonpartisan fact-checking and other analysis from PolitiFact, the University of Pennsylvania’s FactCheck.org, The Center for Public Integrity and others. Ads will be tracked along with facts about their accuracy, source, frequency and context. These widely distributed library resources will provide voters with trustworthy information and encourage greater participation in the political process. |
| 600,000.00 | 2 | -- | Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/6712 | -- | Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 02/06/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Helping people create and share global collections of cultural treasures on the Internet Archive, one of the world's largest public libraries. The Internet Archive is one of the world’s largest public digital libraries, with an extensive collection of human culture: 2 million books, 430 billion Web pages, 3 million hours of television and more. However, the archive’s users upload only a small percentage of these materials and to preserve the world’s knowledge the public should be encouraged to contribute. The archive is embarking on a project to make the archive.org site more community-driven by improving the tools that allow people to upload, describe and organize items. With these new tools, the Internet Archive hopes to democratize knowledge by giving global communities the ability to save, manage and share their cultural treasures for free. What Wikimedia did for encyclopedia articles, the Internet Archive hopes to do for collections of media: give people the tools to build library collections together and make them accessible to everyone. |
| 1,000,000.00 | 1 | -- | Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/5817 | -- | Grant period: 04/01/2013 - 03/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To support the expansion of the Internet Archive's TV News Search & Borrow, a digital library database of television news content. The Internet Archive, one of the world’s largest public digital libraries, will expand its research library to make readily available hundreds of thousands of U.S. television news programs, with $1 million in support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. “TV stations capture some the most important news events in a format that is too often locked away. This project with the Internet Archive makes these important stories accessible to journalists, researchers and the pubic through a deep, user-friendly site,” said Michael Maness, vice president for journalism and media innovation at Knight Foundation. With this funding, the archive will expand its TV News Search & Borrow service, which now includes 400,000 broadcasts dating back to June 2009. The aim is to help strengthen the work of journalists, scholars, teachers, librarians, civic organizations and others. The service uses closed captioning to allow users to search, quote and borrow U.S. TV news programs. Available at no charge, the public can use the index of searchable text and short-streamed clips to explore TV news. In this way, they can discover […]. |
| 50,000.00 | 4 | -- | Technology, Journalism | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/5457 | -- | Grant period: 04/01/2012 - 05/31/2012; goal: To develop a searchable semantic database of television programming and advertising from 2012 and the past ten years, with a focus on uses for the 2012 election. |