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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 Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science in our system.
Full donee page for donee The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
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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 | 3 | 350,000 | 288,667 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 500,000 | 500,000 | 500,000 | 500,000 |
| Technology, Journalism | 1 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 |
| Technology | 2 | 350,000 | 425,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 500,000 | 500,000 | 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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| Technology (filter this donor) | 2 | 0.00 |
| Technology, Journalism (filter this donor) | 1 | 0.00 |
| Total | 3 | 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 3) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 350,000.00 | 2 | -- | Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/6246 | -- | Grant period: 01/14/2014 - 08/13/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To build Homebrew Sensing Project, a set of low-cost hardware and free software tools community members can use to measure local health data, such as air and water quality. Communities are increasingly concerned about the array of hazardous chemicals that surrounds us - from formaldehyde in building materials to fumes from industrial sites - and their long and short term health impacts. To address this problem, the Public Laboratory wants to provide more low-cost chemical analysis tools, including simple devices that can be plugged into smartphones and laptops, so residents can measure the effects themselves instead of relying on costly labs. With its community of over 3,500 active members, Public Lab raised $110,000 in 2012 through Kickstarter to use DIY spectrometry tools to identify petroleum in sediments in coastal Louisiana and monitor emissions from oil refineries, among other projects. Challenge funding will allow the lab’s Homebrew Sensing Project to not only expand but improve its hardware, software and interface with citizens to collect data that empowers communities. |
| 16,000.00 | 3 | -- | Technology, Journalism | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/6057 | -- | Grant period: 08/01/2013 - 11/30/2013; goal: To support the results of Public Lab's Kickstarter campaign for Infragram, a cheap, DIY near-infrared camera for use in data collection such as monitoring vegetation health. |
| 500,000.00 | 1 | -- | Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/5151 | -- | Grant period: 06/23/2011 - 06/22/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To make technology work for communities by creating a tool kit and online community for citizen-based, grassroots data gathering and research. To make technology work for communities, the Public Laboratory will create a tool kit and online community for citizen-based, grassroots data gathering and research. The Lab is an expansion of Grassroots Mapping – a project originated at the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT. During the project, residents used helium-filled balloons and digital cameras to generate high-resolution “satellite” maps gauging the extent of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill – at a time when there was little public information on the subject. Expanding the tool kit beyond aerial mapping, Public Laboratory will work with communities, both online and offline, to produce information about their surroundings. |