MacArthur Foundation donations made to WGBH Educational Foundation

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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 WGBH Educational Foundation in our system.

Full donee page for donee WGBH Educational Foundation

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 32 250,000 609,583 45,000 100,000 100,000 200,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 1,000,000 4,578,612
FIXME 32 250,000 609,583 45,000 100,000 100,000 200,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 1,000,000 4,578,612

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 2015 2014 2012 2009 2007 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1994 1990 1989 1988 1987 1985
FIXME (filter this donor) 32 19,506,662.00 240,000.00 4,200,000.00 200,000.00 2,250,000.00 100,000.00 4,828,612.00 700,000.00 1,000,000.00 500,000.00 1,150,000.00 750,000.00 100,000.00 50,000.00 645,000.00 150,000.00 200,000.00 300,000.00 100,000.00 750,000.00 193,050.00 600,000.00 500,000.00
Total 32 19,506,662.00 240,000.00 4,200,000.00 200,000.00 2,250,000.00 100,000.00 4,828,612.00 700,000.00 1,000,000.00 500,000.00 1,150,000.00 750,000.00 100,000.00 50,000.00 645,000.00 150,000.00 200,000.00 300,000.00 100,000.00 750,000.00 193,050.00 600,000.00 500,000.00

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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 (32 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 32)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
240,000.00182016FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- in support of an impact campaign for the film American Experience: Command and Control. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
4,200,000.0022015FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- for unrestricted support of its project FRONTLINE. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
200,000.00192014FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of American Experience: Command and Control, a documentary film about the safety of America's nuclear weapons arsenal. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
2,250,000.0032012FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of FRONTLINE (over three years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
100,000.00252009FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of FRONTLINE/World reporting on Asian security issues. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
4,578,612.0012007FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of the FRONTLINE and the FRONTLINE/World series, and the expansion of the series' digital and online capabilities (over five years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
250,000.00152007FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of FRONTLINE/World. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
500,000.0072005FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of FRONTLINE/World (over two years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
200,000.00192005FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of "The New Asylums," a FRONTLINE documentary film about the challenges faced by a prison system dealing with large numbers of mentally ill inmates. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
1,000,000.0042004FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of the Digital Opportunity Fund (over three years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
400,000.00102003FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of a two-hour documentary commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
100,000.00252003FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of expanded programming to cover war-related stories. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
800,000.0052002FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support "FRONTLINE/World," a global news documentary series on PBS (over two years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
350,000.00122002FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support the television documentary "World in the Balance.". Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
250,000.00152001FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support "Reconstruction," a documentary series about the Reconstruction era (1863-1877). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
500,000.0072001FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of Frontline’s expanded programming in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
100,000.00252000FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support promotion and outreach activities associated with the PBS series "The War on Drugs.". Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
50,000.00301999FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support "The Decalogue," a documentary series about the moral and ethical choices facing contemporary America. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
45,000.00321998FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To design and implement a model outreach effort as part of the Television Race Initiative. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
600,000.0061998FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support a documentary series on drug policy for the television program "Frontline.". Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
50,000.00301997FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support outreach activities associated with "The Lost American," a documentary film about the life of relief worker Fred Cuny. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
100,000.00251997FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support outreach for "Africans in America," a documentary series about the influence of Africans on the early history of the United States. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
200,000.00191996FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To produce a documentary about international refugee issues and the work of Fred Cuny, for broadcast on the public television program "Frontline.". Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
300,000.00131994FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- For "Africans in America," a series exploring the history of Africans in the pre-Civil War United States (over two years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
100,000.00251990FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support "New Television," a series co-produced with WNET. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
250,000.00151989FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support the PBS series "Inside Gorbachev's USSR.". Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
300,000.00131989FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support "The Other Americas," a television series and college-level telecourse on Latin America. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
200,000.00191989FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support educational and outreach activities for the public television series "Degrassi Junior High.". Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
193,050.00241988FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support "The Other Americas," a television series and college-level telecourse on Latin America. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
400,000.00101987FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support a television documentary series on the global environment, "State of the World.". Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
200,000.00191987FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support "The Other Americas," a television series and college-level telecourse on Latin America. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.
500,000.0071985FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support "The Nuclear Age," a series for public television, in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Massachusetts; affected cities: Boston.