Sloan Foundation donations made to Film Independent, Inc.

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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 Film Independent, Inc. in our system.

Full donee page for donee Film Independent, Inc.

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 7 381,053 380,850 35,000 35,000 156,000 330,000 330,000 381,053 398,668 398,668 665,995 699,236 699,236
Public Understanding 7 381,053 380,850 35,000 35,000 156,000 330,000 330,000 381,053 398,668 398,668 665,995 699,236 699,236

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 2017 2014 2011 2009
Public Understanding (filter this donor) 7 2,665,952.00 1,097,904.00 1,047,048.00 365,000.00 156,000.00
Total 7 2,665,952.00 1,097,904.00 1,047,048.00 365,000.00 156,000.00

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)

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (7 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 7)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
398,668.0032017Public Understanding/Filmhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/8110-- Grant investigator: Maria Bozzi; as support for the triennial Sloan Film Summit: a three-day event of screenings, panels, staged readings, project updates, networking opportunities, and community building for Sloan film grantees.
699,236.0012017Public Understanding/Filmhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/8111-- Grant investigator: Jennifer Kushner; to provide direct support to develop and distribute science and technology scripts, teleplays, and films.
381,053.0042014Public Understanding/Filmhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/7248-- Grant investigator: Jennifer Kushner; to support the triennial Sloan Film Summit, a three-day event of screenings, panels, staged readings, project updates, and networking opportunities and community building for Sloan film grantees.
665,995.0022014Public Understanding/Filmhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/7249-- Grant investigator: Jennifer Kushner; to provide direct support to develop science and technology scripts through a Producer’s Lab and Fast Track film financing and to start a fund to incentivize distribution of completed Sloan films and other science-worthy features.
330,000.0052011Public Understanding/Filmhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/7276-- Grant investigator: Josh Welsh; to develop science scripts and support producing teams developing Sloan-worthy feature films.
35,000.0072011Public Understanding/Filmhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/7277-- Grant investigator: Josh Welsh; to expedite one science and technology film into production with a Fast Track fellowship.
156,000.0062009Public Understanding/Filmhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/7293-- Grant investigator: Josh Welsh; to develop three science and technology films through the production process.