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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 University of Maryland Foundation in our system.
Full donee page for donee University of Maryland Foundation
| Item | Value |
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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 | 6 | 100,000 | 650,833 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 180,000 | 1,145,000 | 1,145,000 | 2,400,000 | 2,400,000 |
| Communities | 2 | 30,000 | 65,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 |
| Technology, Journalism | 4 | 180,000 | 943,750 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 180,000 | 180,000 | 180,000 | 1,145,000 | 1,145,000 | 2,400,000 | 2,400,000 | 2,400,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Technology, Journalism (filter this donor) | 4 | 0.00 |
| Communities (filter this donor) | 2 | 0.00 |
| Total | 6 | 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 6) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,145,000.00 | 2 | -- | Technology, Journalism | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/4233 | -- | Grant period: 12/10/2007 - 11/30/2011; goal: To transform the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism into a multimedia, digital learning center. |
| 2,400,000.00 | 1 | -- | Technology, Journalism | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/3993 | -- | Grant period: 10/01/2006 - 10/01/2008; goal: To create the programming for the Knight Institute for the Future of Journalism. |
| 50,000.00 | 5 | -- | Technology, Journalism | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/3994 | -- | Grant period: 07/01/2006 - 07/01/2007; goal: To create and manage the Knight Citizen News Network The Knight Citizen News Network is designed to be an online training center for citizen journalists and a showcase for all of Knight’s web-based training endeavors, including J-Learning, at Maryland University, NewsU at the Poynter Institute and the Knight New Media Center in Berkeley and Los Angeles. It aspires to teach anyone how to use the latest technologies to produce compelling stories about and for their own communities. Administered at J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland, the grant will create a new web site to host the Knight Citizen News Network. The site will be a one-stop online training destination helping citizen journalists report valuable, informative news that mainstream media is not able to cover. |
| 180,000.00 | 3 | -- | Technology, Journalism | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/3904 | -- | Grant period: 02/01/2006 - 02/01/2009; goal: To continue the Batten Awards and rename them the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism The Knight-Batten Awards are co-named for the Knight brothers and Knight Ridder company CEO James. K. Batten. The awards honor novel approaches to journalism in both mainstream and community media that help people learn about and better understand community issues. J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism at Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism administers the awards. Six awards will be given each year, including a $10,000 Grand Prize Winner; $5,000 for a Runner-Up and at least three Awards of Distinction; and a $1,000 Wild Card Award that will go to a journalism school, a small news organization or an individual. This grant supports the foundation’s goal of increasing the use of new media to serve the public interest. |
| 30,000.00 | 6 | -- | Communities | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/3872 | -- | Grant period: 08/01/2005 - 10/31/2007; goal: To identify and assess a range of new state and local policies on community wealth building and asset development, and to make that information available through the Web and other means. |
| 100,000.00 | 4 | -- | Communities | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/3524 | -- | Grant period: 01/01/2005 - 06/30/2007; goal: To disseminate research and build constituencies to promote new models for community-based economic development institutions. |