This is an online portal with information on donations that were announced publicly (or have been shared with permission) that were of interest to Vipul Naik. The git repository with the code for this portal, as well as all the underlying data, is available on GitHub. All payment amounts are in current United States dollars (USD). The repository of donations is being seeded with an initial collation by Issa Rice as well as continued contributions from him (see his commits and the contract work page listing all financially compensated contributions to the site) but all responsibility for errors and inaccuracies belongs to Vipul Naik. Current data is preliminary and has not been completely vetted and normalized; if sharing a link to this site or any page on this site, please include the caveat that the data is preliminary (if you want to share without including caveats, please check with Vipul Naik). We expect to have completed the first round of development by the end of July 2024. See the about page for more details. Also of interest: pageview data on analytics.vipulnaik.com, tutorial in README, request for feedback to EA Forum.
| 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
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | |
| Facebook page | universityofmarylandbaltimore |
| Website | http://www.umaryland.edu |
| Twitter username | umbaltimore |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland_(disambiguation) |
| Instagram username | umbaltimore |
Full donee page for donee University of Maryland
| Item | Value |
|---|
| 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 | 4 | 70,000 | 576,250 | 35,000 | 35,000 | 35,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 |
| 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, Journalism | 2 | 70,000 | 1,035,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Arts | 1 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Technology (filter this donor) | 1 | 0.00 |
| Arts (filter this donor) | 1 | 0.00 |
| Technology, Journalism (filter this donor) | 2 | 0.00 |
| Total | 4 | 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 4) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35,000.00 | 4 | -- | Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/6582 | -- | Grant period: 10/15/2014 - 07/14/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To promote journalistic excellence by prototyping Comment IQ, a tool to help newsroom moderators surface interesting or constructive comments. |
| 200,000.00 | 2 | -- | Arts | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/6535 | -- | Grant period: 09/01/2014 - 04/30/2017; goal: To support Capacity Building: Greater San Jose - a two-year program led by the DeVos Institute that will provide intensive group training and in-depth consultation for 20 high-potential arts organizations in greater San Jose/Silicon Valley. |
| 70,000.00 | 3 | -- | Technology, Journalism | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/4130 | -- | Grant period: 06/01/2007 - 05/31/2008; goal: To study the transition of U.S. journalism schools into the digital future and sponsor a conference to help Chinese media create sustainable business models. |
| 2,000,000.00 | 1 | -- | Technology, Journalism | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/3997 | -- | Grant period: 10/01/2006 - 10/01/2011; goal: To complete a new college of journalism building, Knight Hall, to house the Knight Institute for the Future of Journalism. This grant will complete construction of a new journalism building, named Knight Hall, which will be occupied by fall 2009. The new 60,000-square-foot, $27.7 million facility will house the Knight Institute for the Future of Journalism, which will bring together Knight-funded programs. They include the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism; J-Lab, which runs the Knight-Batten Awards for Journalism Innovation, New Voices and the Knight Citizen News Network; Knight Chair Haynes Johnson; and the American Journalism Review. Additional professional journalism groups may want to locate to the state-of-the-art Knight Hall. This grant aims to focus Knight’s programs on the future of journalism and improve journalism education and professional development and training. Knight Hall is supported by an additional $2.4 million grant to create the Knight Institute. Note: In 2002, a five-year, $3 million challenge grant was awarded for the journalism building. |