Knight Foundation donations made to Legacy Foundation

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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

We do not have any donee information for the donee Legacy Foundation in our system.

Full donee page for donee Legacy Foundation

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 5 40,000 538,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 40,000 40,000 100,000 100,000 2,500,000 2,500,000
Communities 4 40,000 666,250 25,000 25,000 25,000 40,000 40,000 40,000 100,000 100,000 2,500,000 2,500,000 2,500,000
1 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000

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
Communities (filter this donor) 4 0.00
(filter this donor) 1 0.00
Total 5 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 (5 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 5)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
25,000.004--Communitieshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5032-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 01/29/2016; goal: To support the City of Gary's economic opportunity and integration by funding a learning exchange at Indiana University in which disadvantaged youth in the community learn transferable, digital media skills from college students.
100,000.002--Communitieshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6038-- Grant period: 09/01/2013 - 09/30/2015; goal: To support the Legacy Foundation's use of online giving technologies for two years in order to raise their community profile and engage new donors.
40,000.003--Communitieshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6026-- Grant period: 09/01/2013 - 09/01/2014; goal: To empower residents to revitalize their neighborhoods, challenge funds will enable the city of Gary to engage the community around improving vacant and abandoned properties. To empower residents to revitalize their neighborhoods, challenge funds will enable the city of Gary to engage the community around improving vacant and abandoned properties. Currently, Gary residents are looking for ways to invest their financial resources, ideas, professional expertise and sweat equity into combating blight, but aren’t sure how to engage in the process effectively or legally. Challenge funding will help the city use tools like Civic Insight’s Blight Status to track the status of properties, and create a process for approaching these lands that reflects residents’ interests.
25,000.004----https://knightfoundation.org/grants/5745-- Grant period: 11/21/2012 - 11/20/2013; goal: To support the Legacy Foundation's leadership role in the use of online giving technologies and to spread the knowledge and best practices they acquire to other Knight community foundations.
2,500,000.001--Communitieshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4757-- Grant period: 01/01/2010 - 12/31/2016; goal: To supplement an existing donor-advised fund.