MacArthur Foundation donations made to WETA Public Television & Radio

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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 WETA Public Television & Radio in our system.

Full donee page for donee WETA Public Television & Radio

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 15 250,000 437,521 2,000 25,000 39,500 50,000 196,316 250,000 250,000 450,000 1,000,000 1,200,000 1,500,000
FIXME 15 250,000 437,521 2,000 25,000 39,500 50,000 196,316 250,000 250,000 450,000 1,000,000 1,200,000 1,500,000

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 2016 2015 2013 2012 2010 2003 1998 1996 1995 1991 1990 1988
FIXME (filter this donor) 15 6,562,816.00 452,000.00 1,200,000.00 50,000.00 1,500,000.00 1,039,500.00 1,000,000.00 200,000.00 350,000.00 250,000.00 250,000.00 196,316.00 25,000.00 50,000.00
Total 15 6,562,816.00 452,000.00 1,200,000.00 50,000.00 1,500,000.00 1,039,500.00 1,000,000.00 200,000.00 350,000.00 250,000.00 250,000.00 196,316.00 25,000.00 50,000.00

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)

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

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (15 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 15)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
2,000.00152018FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- X-grant in support of grantee travel to the 2018 Participatory Civic Media grantee convening in Chicago on December 5 – 6, 2018. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.
450,000.0052018FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- in support of the PBS Student Reporting Labs. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.
1,200,000.0022016FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- for general support of the PBS NewsHour project. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.
50,000.00112015FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- in support of the national broadcast of NEH’s 50th anniversary celebration at the White House. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.
1,500,000.0012013FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of the PBS NewsHour (over three years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.
1,000,000.0032012FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of the PBS NewsHour. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.
39,500.00132012FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To research understanding of and expand the audience for The PBS NewsHour. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.
1,000,000.0032010FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of The NewsHour, a nightly primetime news program on PBS (over three years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.
200,000.0092003FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of the documentary film "Reporting America at War". Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.
350,000.0061998FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support a documentary series on the role of class in American society. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.
250,000.0071996FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- For "Jazz," a public television series (over two years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.
250,000.0071995FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- For "Vote for Me: Politics in America," a public television documentary series that examines electoral politics as a reflection of American culture (over two years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.
196,316.00101991FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support "The Glory and the Power," a PBS series on fundamentalism in world religions, together with a public radio series. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.
25,000.00141990FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- For the school guide to accompany the broadcast and video distribution of "America Becoming.". Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.
50,000.00111988FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support the public television production of "Arab and Jew," based on David Shipler's book of the same title. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; affected cities: Arlington.