Knight Foundation donations made to Temple University School of Media and Communication

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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

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Basic donee information

We do not have any donee information for the donee Temple University School of Media and Communication in our system.

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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 4 35,000 497,600 20,000 20,000 20,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 635,400 635,400 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000
Communities, Arts 1 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000
Technology 1 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000
Technology, Communities, Journalism 1 635,400 635,400 635,400 635,400 635,400 635,400 635,400 635,400 635,400 635,400 635,400 635,400 635,400
Journalism 1 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000 1,300,000

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 2016
Journalism (filter this donor) 1 1,300,000.00 1,300,000.00
Technology (filter this donor) 1 35,000.00 35,000.00
Technology, Communities, Journalism (filter this donor) 1 0.00 0.00
Communities, Arts (filter this donor) 1 0.00 0.00
Total 4 1,335,000.00 1,335,000.00

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

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (4 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 4)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
35,000.0032016-09-09Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7707-- Grant period: 06/23/2016 - 12/20/2016; goal: Exploring ways libraries can support preservation and long-term access to open civic data through community information portals such as OpenDataPhilly.
1,300,000.0012016-09-08Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6874-- Grant period: 09/15/2015 - 01/16/2017; goal: To advance journalism excellence through a digital transformation project inside legacy newsrooms.
635,400.002--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5447-- Grant period: 10/01/2012 - 09/30/2015; goal: To provide opportunities for hundreds of underserved residents to join Philadelphia's growing apps development community Each year, the 10-15 community fellows chosen to continue in the program throughout the year will devise at least one app per year that is marketable. By the conclusion of project the studio will create 30-45 experienced developers and a total of 300 urban millennials who will understand how to create and use mobile applications, devices and social media for community engagement.
20,000.004--Communities, Artshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5078-- Grant period: 04/01/2011 - 05/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Arts Challenge 2019; goal: To offer Arts Wide-Open at Temple Performing Arts Center, offering local public school students after-school, age-appropriate activities with professional artists.