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 | georgemason |
| Website | http://www.gmu.edu/ |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University |
| Instagram username | georgemasonu |
| Org Watch page | https://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=George+Mason+University |
Full donee page for donee George Mason 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 | 7 | 379,704 | 396,128 | 89,951 | 89,951 | 100,000 | 124,095 | 124,095 | 379,704 | 481,340 | 481,340 | 736,042 | 861,762 | 861,762 |
| Working Longer | 2 | 89,951 | 94,976 | 89,951 | 89,951 | 89,951 | 89,951 | 89,951 | 89,951 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 |
| Digital Technology | 4 | 481,340 | 550,810 | 124,095 | 124,095 | 124,095 | 481,340 | 481,340 | 481,340 | 736,042 | 736,042 | 861,762 | 861,762 | 861,762 |
| Initiatives | 1 | 379,704 | 379,704 | 379,704 | 379,704 | 379,704 | 379,704 | 379,704 | 379,704 | 379,704 | 379,704 | 379,704 | 379,704 | 379,704 |
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 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Technology (filter this donor) | 4 | 2,203,239.00 | 736,042.00 | 481,340.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 861,762.00 | 124,095.00 |
| Initiatives (filter this donor) | 1 | 379,704.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 379,704.00 | 0.00 |
| Working Longer (filter this donor) | 2 | 189,951.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 89,951.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 7 | 2,772,894.00 | 736,042.00 | 481,340.00 | 89,951.00 | 100,000.00 | 1,241,466.00 | 124,095.00 |
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 7) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 736,042.00 | 2 | Digital Technology/Scholarly Communication | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6700 | -- | Grant investigator: Sean Takats; to support outreach for and adoption of PressForward, a software platform for the editorial curation of online scholarly research products. | |
| 481,340.00 | 3 | Digital Technology/Scholarly Communication | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6713 | -- | Grant investigator: Sean Takats; to support extensive outreach in conjunction with continued refinement of the PressForward software platform in order to produce curated overlay publications for scientific communities. | |
| 89,951.00 | 7 | Working Longer/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7019 | -- | Grant investigator: Eden King; to identify the primary causes of age-related differences in training outcomes and develop and examine interventions to ameliorate age-related performance discrepancies. | |
| 100,000.00 | 6 | Working Longer/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7051 | -- | Grant investigator: Linda Harber; winner of the 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Best Practices for Faculty Retirement Transitions. | |
| 861,762.00 | 1 | Digital Technology/Scholarly Communication | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6735 | -- | Grant investigator: Joan Fragaszy; to pioneer new methods for capturing and highlighting online scholarly materials in ways that are useful to research communities. | |
| 379,704.00 | 4 | Initiatives/New York City Initiatives | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7144 | -- | Grant investigator: Michael McDonald; to provide updated software, data, and education that facilitate public participation in the redistricting of New York State. | |
| 124,095.00 | 5 | Digital Technology/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6686 | -- | Grant investigator: Michael McDonald; to demonstrate the feasibility of redistricting software accessibility through a web-browser. |