Sloan Foundation donations made to Northwestern University

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

ItemValue
Country
Facebook page NorthwesternU
Websitehttp://www.northwestern.edu
Twitter usernamenorthwesternu
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University
Instagram usernamenorthwesternu

Full donee page for donee Northwestern University

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 4 40,481 97,991 15,000 15,000 15,000 40,481 40,481 40,481 77,947 77,947 258,536 258,536 258,536
Digital Technology 2 15,000 46,474 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 77,947 77,947 77,947 77,947 77,947
Science 1 40,481 40,481 40,481 40,481 40,481 40,481 40,481 40,481 40,481 40,481 40,481 40,481 40,481
Economics 1 258,536 258,536 258,536 258,536 258,536 258,536 258,536 258,536 258,536 258,536 258,536 258,536 258,536

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 2013
Economics (filter this donor) 1 258,536.00 0.00 258,536.00 0.00 0.00
Digital Technology (filter this donor) 2 92,947.00 0.00 0.00 15,000.00 77,947.00
Science (filter this donor) 1 40,481.00 40,481.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 4 391,964.00 40,481.00 258,536.00 15,000.00 77,947.00

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 (4 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 4)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
40,481.0032016Science/Microbiology of the Built Environmenthttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/8208-- Grant investigator: Erica Hartmann; to examine how surface finishes impact the indoor microbiome and their collection of antibiotic resistant genes.
258,536.0012015Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performancehttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/6810-- Grant investigator: Benjamin Jones; initiative: Economic Analysis of Science and Technology (EAST); to improve estimates of how research investments translate into breakthroughs by scientific teams, and how scientific breakthroughs translate into eventual economic growth.
15,000.0042014Digital Technology/Data & Computational Researchhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/6622-- Grant investigator: Brian Uzzi; to partially support the 2015 Computational Sociology Summit.
77,947.0022013Digital Technology/Scholarly Communicationhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/6749-- Grant investigator: Eszter Hargittai; to support a landscape survey and workshop on data sharing from research using technological tools to study human behavior in digital environments.