Sloan Foundation donations made to Ohio State 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 osu
Websitehttps://osu.edu
Twitter usernameOhioState
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_State_University
Instagram usernametheohiostateuniversity

Full donee page for donee Ohio State 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 5 50,142 568,026 19,987 19,987 19,987 20,000 20,000 50,142 50,142 1,250,000 1,250,000 1,500,000 1,500,000
Science 4 50,142 705,032 19,987 19,987 19,987 50,142 50,142 50,142 1,250,000 1,250,000 1,500,000 1,500,000 1,500,000
Energy and Environment 1 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000

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 2017 2016 2013 2011
Science (filter this donor) 4 2,820,129.00 0.00 70,129.00 1,250,000.00 1,500,000.00
Energy and Environment (filter this donor) 1 20,000.00 20,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 5 2,840,129.00 20,000.00 70,129.00 1,250,000.00 1,500,000.00

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 (5 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 5)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
20,000.0042017Energy and Environment/https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8158-- Grant investigator: Jeffrey Jacquet; to support participation of early career scholars and students at the 2017 Energy Impacts Symposium.
50,142.0032016Science/Microbiology of the Built Environmenthttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/8210-- Grant investigator: Karen Dannemiller; to support a pilot study to establish methods and feasibility for determining how diurnal variation in relative humidity affects microbial communities in carpet.
19,987.0052016Science/Microbiology of the Built Environmenthttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/8214-- Grant investigator: Karen Dannemiller; to support the Microbiology of the Built Environment Symposium at the National Council for Science and the Environment 2017 Conference and Global Forum.
1,250,000.0022013Science/Deep Carbon Observatoryhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/7691-- Grant investigator: David Cole; to foster the Deep Energy community of the Deep Carbon Observatory with studies on the origin and distribution of abiotic hydrocarbons.
1,500,000.0012011Science/Deep Carbon Observatoryhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/7712-- Grant investigator: David Cole; to initiate the Deep Energy directorate of the Deep Carbon Observatory with studies differentiating abiogenic from biogenic sources of hydrocarbons.