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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
We do not have any donee information for the donee The Boston Foundation in our system.
Full donee page for donee The Boston Foundation
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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 | 5 | 78,000 | 134,500 | 7,500 | 7,500 | 7,500 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 78,000 | 78,000 | 137,000 | 137,000 | 400,000 | 400,000 |
| Communities | 5 | 78,000 | 134,500 | 7,500 | 7,500 | 7,500 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 78,000 | 78,000 | 137,000 | 137,000 | 400,000 | 400,000 |
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 |
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| Communities (filter this donor) | 5 | 0.00 |
| Total | 5 | 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 5) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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| 50,000.00 | 4 | -- | Communities | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/6025 | -- | Grant period: 09/01/2013 - 09/01/2014; goal: This partnership will launch a statewide education reporting project creating space for thoughtful conversation around improving Massachusetts schools. This partnership—between the Boston Foundation, public radio station WBUR and Glass Eye Media—will launch a statewide education reporting project creating space for thoughtful conversation around improving Massachusetts schools. The project will use Glass Eye Media’s structured beat approach used in its site Homicide Watch, WBUR’s editorial resources and the Boston Foundation’s connection to the education community to build data, tools and change. The project will increase the station’s capacity to cover education, and build a replicable framework for effective coverage of education reform in other regions and states. |
| 137,000.00 | 2 | -- | Communities | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/5505 | -- | Grant period: 07/01/2012 - 07/31/2013; goal: To encourage the more effective use of data in reporting, The Boston Foundation will train journalists and community members to access information and create compelling data visualizations that can be embedded in news stories and on blogs and websites. The foundation and its partners will use a new, open-source data analysis and visualization platform to engage and train journalists from major community-based and social media outlets. Its efforts to engage and mobilize organizations and residents will focus in three Boston neighborhoods: Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan. It will also coordinate a free one-day conference around the topic of data. |
| 78,000.00 | 3 | -- | Communities | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/4832 | -- | Grant period: 07/01/2010 - 07/31/2011; goal: To engage residents and increase understanding of citizens' political motivations by enhancing the interactivity of CommonWealth Online To empower more residents to voice their opinions on Massachusetts issues by providing polling software for a website centered on politics and policy. |
| 400,000.00 | 1 | -- | Communities | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/4478 | -- | Grant period: 12/08/2008 - 11/30/2010; goal: To support the reporting depth and on-line reach of this award-winning, quarterly journal of MassINC, a non-profit, Boston think-tank This grant will help transform CommonWealth Magazine from a paper-based quarterly journal to an interactive, digital resource. Produced by a Boston think tank, CommonWealth will launch an investigative reporting unit with an additional reporter and researcher to focus primarily on the public sector. The magazine will seek to hold government agencies accountable for their work. It will also develop a “What Works” desk to report on programs and policies that are successful in spots around the nation. |
| 7,500.00 | 5 | -- | Communities | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/4485 | -- | Grant period: 10/01/2008 - 09/30/2009; goal: For the City to City Boston 2008 Leadership Visit at Viscaya Museum and Gardens on October 21, 2008. |