MacArthur Foundation donations made to African Economic Research Consortium

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.

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country United States
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._and_Catherine_T._MacArthur_Foundation
Facebook username macarthurfdn
Websitehttps://www.macfound.org/
Donations URLhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/
Twitter usernamemacfound
Page on philosophy informing donationshttps://www.macfound.org/about/how-we-work/
Grant application process pagehttps://www.macfound.org/info-grantseekers/
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteSQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/macarthur-foundation

Brief history: https://www.macfound.org/about/our-history/

Full donor page for donor MacArthur Foundation

Basic donee information

ItemValue
Country
Websitehttp://aercafrica.org/

Full donee page for donee African Economic Research Consortium

Donor–donee relationship

Item Value

Donor–donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 7 450,000 472,500 147,500 147,500 200,000 250,000 250,000 450,000 610,000 610,000 800,000 850,000 850,000
FIXME 7 450,000 472,500 147,500 147,500 200,000 250,000 250,000 450,000 610,000 610,000 800,000 850,000 850,000

Donation amounts by cause area and year

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 2009 2005 2003 2002 2001 1999 1996
FIXME (filter this donor) 7 3,307,500.00 850,000.00 800,000.00 200,000.00 450,000.00 147,500.00 610,000.00 250,000.00
Total 7 3,307,500.00 850,000.00 800,000.00 200,000.00 450,000.00 147,500.00 610,000.00 250,000.00

Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)

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Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)

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Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (7 donations)

Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
Amount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 7)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
850,000.0012009FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To strengthen capacity in Africa for graduate training in economics and policy research (over four years). Affected countries: Kenya; affected cities: Nairobi.
800,000.0022005FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of strengthening capacity in Africa for policy research and graduate training in economics (over four years). Affected countries: Kenya; affected cities: Nairobi.
200,000.0062003FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- For activities to strengthen economic policy research and graduate training in Africa (over two years). Affected countries: Kenya; affected cities: Nairobi.
450,000.0042002FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To establish a collaborative Ph.D. program in economics (over three years). Affected countries: Kenya; affected cities: Nairobi.
147,500.0072001FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To establish a collaborative Ph.D. program in sub-Saharan Africa. Affected countries: Kenya; affected cities: Nairobi.
610,000.0031999FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To strengthen a graduate program in environmental economics and to build regional capacity for policy-oriented research and economic management in Africa (over three years). Affected countries: Kenya; affected cities: Nairobi.
250,000.0051996FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support a graduate program in environmental economics, and to build an undergraduate program in natural resource and environmental economics (over three years). Affected countries: Kenya; affected cities: Nairobi.