Sloan Foundation donations made to Rice 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 ricealumni
Websitehttp://www.rice.edu
Twitter usernamericealumni
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_University
Instagram usernamericeuniversity
Org Watch pagehttps://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=Rice+University

Full donee page for donee Rice 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 3 96,566 128,976 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 96,566 96,566 96,566 275,362 275,362 275,362 275,362
Energy and Environment 2 15,000 145,181 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 275,362 275,362 275,362 275,362 275,362
Science 1 96,566 96,566 96,566 96,566 96,566 96,566 96,566 96,566 96,566 96,566 96,566 96,566 96,566

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 2013
Energy and Environment (filter this donor) 2 290,362.00 290,362.00
Science (filter this donor) 1 96,566.00 96,566.00
Total 3 386,928.00 386,928.00

Skipping spending graph as there is at most one year’s worth of donations.

Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)

There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (3 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 3)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
15,000.0032013Energy and Environment/https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7431-- Grant investigator: Kenneth Medlock; initiative: Shale Gas; to convene researchers funded by the Sloan Foundation to work on aspects of U.S. shale gas development.
96,566.0022013Science/Deep Carbon Observatoryhttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/7690-- Grant investigator: Rajdeep Dasgupta; to convene a meeting on new technologies in deep carbon science potentially interesting to relevant industries and to initiate studies on decarbonation of continental crust.
275,362.0012013Energy and Environment/https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7428-- Grant investigator: Kenneth Medlock; initiative: Shale Gas; to understand how new and proposed federal and local regulations will influence future natural gas resource development and pricing in the United States.