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| Item | Value |
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| 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 Chicago Community Trust in our system.
Full donee page for donee The Chicago Community Trust
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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 | 250,000 | 260,800 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 202,000 | 202,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 252,000 | 252,000 | 500,000 | 500,000 |
| 1 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | |
| Communities | 4 | 250,000 | 301,000 | 202,000 | 202,000 | 202,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 252,000 | 252,000 | 500,000 | 500,000 | 500,000 |
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) | 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.
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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| 500,000.00 | 1 | -- | Communities | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/6295 | -- | Grant period: 02/17/2014 - 03/19/2016; goal: Building on previous Knight Foundation investments in the news and information ecosystem, via the Knight Community Information Challenge, the Chicago Community Trust will continue to design, build and demonstrate the power of digital tools to the community and empower residents to use news and information to improve their quality of life. |
| 100,000.00 | 5 | -- | -- | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/5551 | -- | Grant period: 07/01/2012 - 06/30/2014; goal: To support the Second Century Project, a series of events that culminates in the publication of a book and multimedia content marking the 100th anniversary of the community foundation field. |
| 252,000.00 | 2 | -- | Communities | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/5504 | -- | Grant period: 07/01/2012 - 07/31/2014; goal: The Chicago Community Trust will create apps and other tools to help increase the utility of local government data to benefit community organizations and the broader public. The Trust will also help explain and tell stories hidden in hundreds of data sets now available in the region so that they can be used as reporting tools in local media. The project expects to develop at least five apps that will help residents monitor government activities & efficiency and five apps that directly solve community problems. |
| 202,000.00 | 4 | -- | Communities | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/4673 | -- | Grant period: 12/07/2009 - 11/30/2011; goal: To build up the community information infrastructure in Chicago To stimulate new ways to provide the Chicago region with critical local news and information, The Chicago Community Trust has launched “Community News Matters,” a grant program to support the city’s media innovators. The Knight Foundation support will help fund projects designed to increase the flow of high-quality information to the public and to develop new distribution and business models. In addition, the Trust will conduct a study examining the region’s information infrastructure – its strengths and weakensses – and convene a conference on the topic. |
| 250,000.00 | 3 | -- | Communities | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/4538 | -- | Grant period: 12/24/2008 - 12/23/2010; goal: To provide a digital platform that links neighborhood residents to a wide-range of civic services and activities. This pilot will further test the viability of a digital network to provide services and link residents Chicago residents have access to a wide-range of services, but they often aren’t aware that they exist or are challenged to access them. This project would bring all these activities online in an easily accessible format tailored to neighborhood needs. The site, focused on two to four communities in Chicago’s South Side, would compile data, news reports and user-generated content to provide information such as where they can buy fresh produce, find a food pantry or enroll in a food stamp program. |