MacArthur Foundation donations made to Brookings Institution, Foreign Policy Studies Program

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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

We do not have any donee information for the donee Brookings Institution, Foreign Policy Studies Program in our system.

Full donee page for donee Brookings Institution, Foreign Policy Studies Program

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 16 150,000 682,906 25,000 35,000 58,500 60,000 150,000 150,000 450,000 600,000 600,000 1,950,000 5,000,000
FIXME 16 150,000 682,906 25,000 35,000 58,500 60,000 150,000 150,000 450,000 600,000 600,000 1,950,000 5,000,000

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 2016 2012 2006 2004 2002 2001 1998 1996 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984
FIXME (filter this donor) 16 10,926,500.00 550,000.00 35,000.00 600,000.00 600,000.00 450,000.00 150,000.00 736,000.00 202,000.00 5,000,000.00 118,500.00 450,000.00 60,000.00 25,000.00 1,950,000.00
Total 16 10,926,500.00 550,000.00 35,000.00 600,000.00 600,000.00 450,000.00 150,000.00 736,000.00 202,000.00 5,000,000.00 118,500.00 450,000.00 60,000.00 25,000.00 1,950,000.00

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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 (16 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 16)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
550,000.0062016FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- for a project on the Iran nuclear deal. Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
35,000.00152012FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To research and convene activities in the run-up to the May 2012 G8 and NATO summits. Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
600,000.0042006FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of a program of research and convening activities in the United States, China, Japan, and India to maintain peace and security in Asia (over two years). Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
600,000.0042004FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of a Science and Technology Fellow and a project on the legitimacy of force as a means of restraining weapons proliferation (over two years). Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
450,000.0072002FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support the project The Future of Arms Control (over three years). Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
150,000.0092001FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To research the broader foreign policy and security implications of the terrorist attacks on U.S. policy toward the Islamic world, with a particular interest in examining the causes of Islamist extremism and opposition to the U.S. Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
736,000.0031998FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support research on arms control and the resolution of conflict (over two years). Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
52,000.00141996FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support a study on how to achieve deep reductions in strategic nuclear forces. Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
150,000.0091996FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support the work of the representative of the U.N. Secretary-General on internally displaced persons (over two years). Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
5,000,000.0011989FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support research studies, exchange fellowships, and public outreach programs (over five years). Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
58,500.00131988FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- For "Ballistic Missile Production in the Third World.". Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
60,000.00111988FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support the Visiting Scholars Program and research on the contribution of American leadership to international relations. Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
450,000.0071987FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support fellowships in the East Asian and Middle East programs and visiting Soviet economists (over three years). Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
60,000.00111986FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- For "Presidential Policymaking Regarding the Arab-Israeli Conflict," by Harold Saunders. Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
25,000.00161985FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- For a study of the security implications of bio-technology. Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
1,950,000.0021984FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support effective and sustained collaboration among researchers from different fields on problems of international security and for an experiment in systematically focused research on neglected dimensions of security (over five years). Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..