MacArthur Foundation donations made to University of California, Berkeley

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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 United States
Facebook page UCBerkeley
Websitehttps://www.berkeley.edu/
Donate pagehttps://give.berkeley.edu/?sc=111443
Twitter usernameUCBerkeley
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley
Instagram usernameucberkeleyofficial
Medium usernameUCBerkeley
Org Watch pagehttps://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=University+of+California%2C+Berkeley

Full donee page for donee University of California, Berkeley

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 8 145,420 724,428 14,000 14,000 36,000 100,000 145,420 145,420 300,000 800,000 1,200,000 3,200,000 3,200,000
FIXME 8 145,420 724,428 14,000 14,000 36,000 100,000 145,420 145,420 300,000 800,000 1,200,000 3,200,000 3,200,000

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 2018 2017 2016 2014 2010 2006 2005
FIXME (filter this donor) 8 5,795,420.00 14,000.00 36,000.00 100,000.00 300,000.00 2,000,000.00 3,200,000.00 145,420.00
Total 8 5,795,420.00 14,000.00 36,000.00 100,000.00 300,000.00 2,000,000.00 3,200,000.00 145,420.00

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)

There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (8 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 8)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
14,000.0082018FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- X-grant in support of the development of a guide that instructs low-risk civil society organizations on how to develop a basic organizational digital security policy. Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; affected cities: Berkeley.
36,000.0072017FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- X-grant to support the development of a guide that instructs low-risk civil society organizations on how to develop a basic organizational digital security policy. Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; affected cities: Berkeley.
100,000.0062016FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- to support the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity's exploration and planning for the creation of the Citizen Clinic. Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; affected cities: Berkeley.
300,000.0042014FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of the BIDS Initiative: Urban Data Fusion for Modeling Urban Sustainability (over two years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; affected cities: Berkeley.
800,000.0032010FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To develop and offer a Master's in Development Practice degree program (over three years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; affected cities: Berkeley.
1,200,000.0022010FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of the Research Network on Building Resilient Regions (over two years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; affected cities: Berkeley.
3,200,000.0012006FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of the Research Network on Building Resilient Regions (over three years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; affected cities: Berkeley.
145,420.0052005FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of planning for a multi-site ethnographic study of how and to what effect young people use digital media (over three months). Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; affected cities: Berkeley.