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 March 2022. 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.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_P._Sloan_Foundation |
| Facebook username | sloanfoundation |
| Website | https://sloan.org/ |
| Donations URL | https://sloan.org/grants-database |
| Twitter username | SloanFoundation |
| Page on philosophy informing donations | https://sloan.org/about#mission |
| Grant application process page | https://sloan.org/grants/apply |
| Data entry method on Donations List Website | SQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/sloan-foundation |
Full donor page for donor Sloan Foundation
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | |
| Facebook page | columbia |
| Website | http://www.columbia.edu |
| Twitter username | columbia |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University |
| Instagram username | columbia |
Full donee page for donee Columbia University
| Item | Value |
|---|
| Cause area | Count | Median | Mean | Minimum | 10th percentile | 20th percentile | 30th percentile | 40th percentile | 50th percentile | 60th percentile | 70th percentile | 80th percentile | 90th percentile | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 44 | 125,000 | 207,119 | 3,800 | 20,000 | 43,767 | 50,000 | 100,000 | 125,000 | 248,400 | 289,541 | 384,633 | 467,837 | 663,141 |
| Digital Technology | 11 | 124,996 | 186,064 | 3,800 | 15,000 | 19,385 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 124,996 | 125,000 | 313,241 | 384,633 | 420,640 | 600,007 |
| Economics | 7 | 124,948 | 165,077 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 85,682 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 124,948 | 125,000 | 125,000 | 209,610 | 490,298 | 490,298 |
| Science | 5 | 43,767 | 212,753 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 40,000 | 40,000 | 43,767 | 43,767 | 299,998 | 299,998 | 650,000 | 650,000 |
| Public Understanding | 5 | 221,837 | 194,685 | 45,000 | 45,000 | 45,000 | 150,108 | 150,108 | 221,837 | 221,837 | 266,939 | 266,939 | 289,541 | 289,541 |
| Energy and Environment | 9 | 50,000 | 155,957 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 248,400 | 254,994 | 299,989 | 350,226 | 350,226 |
| Initiatives | 3 | 124,338 | 146,430 | 64,951 | 64,951 | 64,951 | 64,951 | 124,338 | 124,338 | 124,338 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 |
| Working Longer | 4 | 450,000 | 507,731 | 449,944 | 449,944 | 449,944 | 450,000 | 450,000 | 450,000 | 467,837 | 467,837 | 663,141 | 663,141 | 663,141 |
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.
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
Graph of all donations, showing the timeframe of donations
| Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 44) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 299,998.00 | 12 | Science/Chemistry of Indoor Environments | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8582 | -- | Grant investigator: V. Faye McNeill; to examine hydrolysis reactions on damp surfaces and the impact on indoor air quality. | |
| 20,000.00 | 39 | Digital Technology/Data & Computational Research | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8430 | -- | Grant investigator: Jeannette Wing; to partially support a summit of data science leadership across US universities. | |
| 384,633.00 | 9 | Digital Technology/Scholarly Communication | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8517 | -- | Grant investigator: Kerstin Lehnert; to develop a global, scalable, and sustainable technical and organizational infrastructure for persistent unique identifiers of physical scientific samples. | |
| 209,610.00 | 20 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8530 | -- | Grant investigator: Eric Johnson; to conduct experiments on the behavioral welfare effects of heterogeneous nudging. | |
| 313,241.00 | 11 | Digital Technology/Data & Computational Research | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7998 | -- | Grant investigator: Andreas Mueller; to enable greater use of machine learning techniques in scientific research through technical and user experience improvements to scikit-learn. | |
| 299,989.00 | 13 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8248 | -- | Grant investigator: Jason Bordoff; to support the Columbia Energy Exchange podcast series to disseminate information and deepen dialogue around energy and environment issues. | |
| 125,000.00 | 22 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8231 | -- | Grant investigator: Edmund Phelps; initiative: Economic Analysis of Science and Technology (EAST); to study the general equilibrium effects on labor markets due to robots. | |
| 50,000.00 | 30 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8131 | -- | Grant investigator: Jason Bordoff; to providing continuing support for the Center on Global Energy Policy’s external speaker series and roundtable discussions to increase overall knowledge and understanding of key energy issues and trends. | |
| 15,000.00 | 43 | Digital Technology/Data & Computational Research | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7992 | -- | Grant investigator: Mark Hansen; to support a meeting on offline data transfer networks. | |
| 490,298.00 | 4 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8033 | -- | Grant investigator: Emi Nakamura; initiative: Behavioral and Regulatory Effects on Decision-making (BRED); to integrate behavioral insights into the foundations of standard macroeconomic models by re-examining the role of the Euler equation. | |
| 254,994.00 | 16 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8135 | -- | Grant investigator: Jason Bordoff; to continue support for the Women in Energy program at the Center on Global Energy Policy to improve the engagement of women in energy policy, security, and technology communities. | |
| 350,226.00 | 10 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8155 | -- | Grant investigator: Jason Bordoff; to improve the training of energy journalists through an introduction to high quality research in energy economics, geopolitics, and innovation. | |
| 50,000.00 | 30 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8152 | -- | Grant investigator: Jason Bordoff; to provide continuing support for the Center on Global Energy Policy’s external speaker series and roundtable discussions to inform dialogue about critical energy issues. | |
| 449,944.00 | 7 | Working Longer/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6972 | -- | Grant investigator: Ruth Finkelstein; to build on the momentum of the previous Age Smart Employer Awards to raise awareness of employers about the value of an age-diverse workforce and effective strategies to recruit, engage, and retain older workers. | |
| 289,541.00 | 14 | Public Understanding/Film | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7237 | -- | Grant investigator: Trey Ellis; to encourage the next generation of filmmakers to write screenplays and produce short films about science and technology through enhanced research, mentorship, and award opportunities. | |
| 20,000.00 | 39 | Digital Technology/Scholarly Communication | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6699 | -- | Grant investigator: Kerstin Lehnert; to support a meeting on best practices for data publication in the Earth and space sciences. | |
| 450,000.00 | 6 | Working Longer/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6980 | -- | Grant investigator: Ursula Staudinger; to investigate how mental stimulation through different types of activities affects cognitive performance in later life and to determine the unique and overlapping contributions of these activities. | |
| 467,837.00 | 5 | Working Longer/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6982 | -- | Grant investigator: Ruth Finkelstein; to provide working journalists with coherent, accessible current research on working longer as a central strategy toward making population aging into an opportunity rather than an individual and societal crisis. | |
| 50,000.00 | 30 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7457 | -- | Grant investigator: Jason Bordoff; to continue support for the Center on Global Energy Policy’s external speaker series to inform public debate about critical energy issues. | |
| 600,007.00 | 3 | Digital Technology/Data & Computational Research | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6614 | -- | Grant investigator: Andrew Gelman; to support the development, maintenance, and dissemination of Stan, a probabilistic programming language that simplifies Bayesian modeling and data analysis. | |
| 64,951.00 | 29 | Initiatives/New York City Initiatives | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7133 | -- | Grant investigator: Jeff Schlegelmilch; to develop strategies to improve emergency preparedness at NYC schools. | |
| 248,400.00 | 18 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7470 | -- | Grant investigator: Jason Bordoff; to support the Women in Energy program at the Center on Global Energy Policy to help increase gender diversity and female leadership in the energy sector. | |
| 43,767.00 | 36 | Science/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7725 | -- | Grant investigator: Jose Zubizarreta; to develop new statistical methods for improving the design, analysis, and efficiency of randomized experiments and observational studies of causal effects. | |
| 50,000.00 | 30 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7478 | -- | Grant investigator: Jason Bordoff; to continue support for the Center on Global Energy Policy’s external speaker series to inform public debate about critical energy issues. | |
| 125,000.00 | 22 | Digital Technology/Data & Computational Research | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6632 | -- | Grant investigator: Kathleen McKeown; to demonstrate the effectiveness of supporting collaborative teams of data-driven researchers within a university. | |
| 650,000.00 | 2 | Science/Deep Carbon Observatory | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7684 | -- | Grant investigator: Peter Kelemen; to support seven field studies integral to the success of the Deep Carbon Observatory. | |
| 266,939.00 | 15 | Public Understanding/Film | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7263 | -- | Grant investigator: Trey Ellis; to encourage the next generation of filmmakers to write screenplays and produce short films about science and technology. | |
| 663,141.00 | 1 | Working Longer/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7008 | -- | Grant investigator: Ruth Finkelstein; to enhance and expand the scope of the Age Smart Employer Awards. | |
| 250,000.00 | 17 | Initiatives/New York City Initiatives | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7141 | -- | Grant investigator: W. Lipkin; to determine the microflora of mice in proximity to densely populated and high-traffic areas in New York City. | |
| 19,385.00 | 42 | Digital Technology/Data & Computational Research | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6623 | -- | Grant investigator: Matthew Jones; to support a workshop on the history of data science and the use of data in the history of science more broadly. | |
| 20,000.00 | 39 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6884 | -- | Grant investigator: Bruce Kogut; to provide support for editing an educational video about financial innovation, markets, and regulation so that it meets WNET/PBS guidelines for broadcasting. | |
| 50,000.00 | 30 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7493 | -- | Grant investigator: Jason Bordoff; for support of the Center on Global Energy Policy's external speaker series to help inform public debate. | |
| 40,000.00 | 37 | Science/Deep Carbon Observatory | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7697 | -- | Grant investigator: Kristen Lehnert; to develop DiamondDB, a community data Infrastructure for diamond research within the Deep Carbon Observatory. | |
| 420,640.00 | 8 | Digital Technology/Scholarly Communication | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6752 | -- | Grant investigator: Victoria Stodden; to further develop RunMyCode, a platform that links data and code for real-time reproduction of published studies. | |
| 30,000.00 | 38 | Science/Deep Carbon Observatory | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7703 | -- | Grant investigator: Peter Kelemen; to support a planning and proposal development workshop for a drilling project about ophiolite rocks important for the Deep Carbon Observatory. | |
| 124,996.00 | 24 | Digital Technology/Scholarly Communication | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6731 | -- | Grant investigator: Damon Jaggars; to create a graphical, open-source Citation Style Language (CSL) editor that can be used to develop, edit, and customize bibliographic reference styles. | |
| 3,800.00 | 44 | Digital Technology/Data & Computational Research | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6662 | -- | Grant investigator: Victoria Stodden; to support a community forum to bring together stakeholders such as scientists, journal editors, funding agencies, to discuss the reproducibility in the computational sciences. | |
| 124,948.00 | 25 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6911 | -- | Grant investigator: Eric Johnson; to conduct behavioral research on decision-making by consumers that informs the design of health insurance exchanges. | |
| 150,108.00 | 21 | Public Understanding/Film | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7279 | -- | Grant investigator: Evangeline Morphos; for a pilot production grant to encourage the next generation of filmmakers to incorporate science and technology themes into storytelling for the World Wide Web. | |
| 124,338.00 | 26 | Initiatives/New York City Initiatives | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7119 | -- | Grant investigator: Allan Blaer; to document and build on the history of the Science Honors program. | |
| 221,837.00 | 19 | Public Understanding/Film | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7280 | -- | Grant investigator: Trey Ellis; to write screenplays and produce short films about science and technology. | |
| 85,682.00 | 28 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6930 | -- | Grant investigator: Eric Johnson; to perform experiments on how consumers' characteristics affect their annuity decisions. | |
| 100,000.00 | 27 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6966 | -- | Grant investigator: Edmund Phelps; for a conference to spur discussion of "imperfect knowledge economics" for problems in exchange rates, equity markets, and behavioral economics. | |
| 45,000.00 | 35 | Public Understanding/Books | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7234 | -- | Grant investigator: Eric Kandel; support for a book on the influence of scientific medicine on leading thinkers and artists. |