Sloan Foundation donations made to Astrophysical 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/Alfred_P._Sloan_Foundation
Facebook username sloanfoundation
Websitehttps://sloan.org/
Donations URLhttps://sloan.org/grants-database
Twitter usernameSloanFoundation
Page on philosophy informing donationshttps://sloan.org/about#mission
Grant application process pagehttps://sloan.org/grants/apply
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteSQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/sloan-foundation

Full donor page for donor Sloan Foundation

Basic donee information

We do not have any donee information for the donee Astrophysical Research Consortium in our system.

Full donee page for donee Astrophysical 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 8 700,000 3,951,006 40,047 40,047 107,000 530,000 700,000 700,000 731,000 3,500,000 10,000,000 16,000,000 16,000,000
Science 8 700,000 3,951,006 40,047 40,047 107,000 530,000 700,000 700,000 731,000 3,500,000 10,000,000 16,000,000 16,000,000

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 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2012 2008
Science (filter this donor) 8 31,608,047.00 530,000.00 16,731,000.00 107,000.00 700,000.00 3,500,000.00 10,000,000.00 40,047.00
Total 8 31,608,047.00 530,000.00 16,731,000.00 107,000.00 700,000.00 3,500,000.00 10,000,000.00 40,047.00

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
530,000.0062018Science/Sloan Digital Sky Surveyhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/8587-- Grant investigator: Michael Blanton; to continue support for the Faculty and Student Team (FAST) program within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) that aims to increase the number of underrepresented minority students and faculty in the collaboration and increase the number of students pursuing astronomy Ph.D. programs.
16,000,000.0012017Science/Sloan Digital Sky Surveyhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/8291-- Grant investigator: Juna Kollmeier; to undertake the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V), which will utilize all-sky spectroscopic observations to explain the genesis of the Milky Way and its neighbors, comprehensively test stellar astrophysics and star-planet relations, probe supermassive black hole physics, and map, on unprecedented scales, the Milky Way’s interstellar gas and that of nearby galaxies.
731,000.0042017Science/Sloan Digital Sky Surveyhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/8218-- Grant investigator: Michael Blanton; to maximize the sustainability of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data archive.
107,000.0072016Science/Sloan Digital Sky Surveyhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/7846-- Grant investigator: Juna Kollmeier; to evaluate the prospects, operational landscape, and potential options for the future of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) research program and its facilities in the 2020s.
700,000.0052015Science/Sloan Digital Sky Surveyhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/7847-- Grant investigator: Michael Blanton; to increase the number of underrepresented minority students in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) collaboration through the development and implementation of a Faculty-and-Student Team (FAST) program and a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.
3,500,000.0032014Science/Sloan Digital Sky Surveyhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/7848-- Grant investigator: Michael Blanton; to support the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV to design, build, and install an infrared astronomical spectrograph for the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) at the du Pont Telescope in Las Campanas, Chile in order to study the history and formation of the Milky Way galaxy.
10,000,000.0022012Science/Sloan Digital Sky Surveyhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/7849-- Grant investigator: Michael Blanton; to support the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV, which will study the history of the Milky Way, the evolution of galaxies, and the expansion of the Universe and dark energy over the last 12 billion years.
40,047.0082008Science/Sloan Digital Sky Surveyhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/7850-- Grant investigator: David Weinberg; to fund an international forum titled: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Asteroids to Cosmology.