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.
| 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 | |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Student_Government |
Full donee page for donee The University of Chicago
| Item | Value |
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| 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 | 24 | 493,818 | 474,857 | 17,300 | 55,000 | 80,000 | 125,000 | 214,690 | 493,818 | 605,281 | 700,000 | 881,666 | 995,670 | 1,094,203 |
| Science | 7 | 141,450 | 443,815 | 17,300 | 17,300 | 35,186 | 80,000 | 80,000 | 141,450 | 856,900 | 856,900 | 881,666 | 1,094,203 | 1,094,203 |
| Energy and Environment | 3 | 60,375 | 240,219 | 55,000 | 55,000 | 55,000 | 55,000 | 60,375 | 60,375 | 60,375 | 605,281 | 605,281 | 605,281 | 605,281 |
| Economics | 9 | 580,003 | 574,450 | 100,119 | 100,119 | 214,690 | 399,974 | 493,818 | 580,003 | 690,000 | 700,000 | 995,670 | 995,775 | 995,775 |
| Working Longer | 2 | 125,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 |
| Digital Technology | 3 | 750,000 | 716,385 | 499,156 | 499,156 | 499,156 | 499,156 | 750,000 | 750,000 | 750,000 | 900,000 | 900,000 | 900,000 | 900,000 |
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 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics (filter this donor) | 9 | 5,170,049.00 | 1,089,974.00 | 700,000.00 | 493,818.00 | 1,790,468.00 | 0.00 | 100,119.00 | 0.00 | 995,670.00 | 0.00 |
| Science (filter this donor) | 7 | 3,106,705.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 961,666.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 874,200.00 | 141,450.00 | 1,129,389.00 |
| Digital Technology (filter this donor) | 3 | 2,149,156.00 | 0.00 | 750,000.00 | 0.00 | 900,000.00 | 499,156.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Energy and Environment (filter this donor) | 3 | 720,656.00 | 605,281.00 | 60,375.00 | 55,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Working Longer (filter this donor) | 2 | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 125,000.00 | 125,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 24 | 11,396,566.00 | 1,695,255.00 | 1,510,375.00 | 673,818.00 | 3,777,134.00 | 499,156.00 | 100,119.00 | 874,200.00 | 1,137,120.00 | 1,129,389.00 |
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.
Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations
| Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 24) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 399,974.00 | 14 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8448 | -- | Grant investigator: Jens Ludwig; to study the complementarity between prediction algorithms and human decision-making. | |
| 605,281.00 | 10 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8457 | -- | Grant investigator: Michael Greenstone; to support the training of early career scholars in developing a more detailed, granular approach to estimating damage functions that can contribute to providing more transparent estimates of the social cost of carbon. | |
| 690,000.00 | 9 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8531 | -- | Grant investigator: Thomas Sargent; to develop, debug, and disseminate macroeconomic models and software that do not assume rational expectations. | |
| 750,000.00 | 7 | Digital Technology/Data & Computational Research | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8001 | -- | Grant investigator: James Evans; to study how the choice of computational tools such as programming languages and data-analysis environments impacts their users. | |
| 60,375.00 | 21 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8139 | -- | Grant investigator: Michael Greenstone; to organize a workshop that will foster deeper, more productive dialogue between economists and engineers regarding the impact of energy efficiency programs. | |
| 700,000.00 | 8 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8051 | -- | Grant investigator: Bruce Meyer; initiative: Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE); to compile accurate and comprehensive microdata about household income by developing new methods for combining survey results with administrative data. | |
| 125,000.00 | 17 | Working Longer/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8088 | -- | Grant investigator: Damon Jones; to investigate the impact of the Social Security Retirement Earnings Test, which creates substantial disincentives for work, on the elderly employment rate. | |
| 55,000.00 | 22 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7435 | -- | Grant investigator: Steven Cicala; to convene academic economists and power system engineers from distribution utilities to identify critical research questions and opportunities for collaboration. | |
| 493,818.00 | 13 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6836 | -- | Grant investigator: Matthew Gee; initiative: Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE); to facilitate workforce research by brokering, combining, documenting, and making available for study administrative data about labor markets from a variety of sources. | |
| 214,690.00 | 15 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6793 | -- | Grant investigator: Devin Pope; initiative: Behavioral and Regulatory Effects on Decision-making (BRED); to elicit and study experts’ prior predictions about the outcomes of experiments in behavioral economics. | |
| 881,666.00 | 5 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7754 | -- | Grant investigator: Jack Gilbert; to develop new knowledge about the metabolism of indoor microbial communities using experimental and modeling approaches. | |
| 125,000.00 | 17 | Working Longer/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6987 | -- | Grant investigator: Damon Jones; to investigate the impact of the Social Security Retirement Earnings Test. | |
| 995,775.00 | 2 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6871 | -- | Grant investigator: Lars Hansen; initiative: Financial and Institutional Modeling in Macroeconomics (FIMM); to construct, calibrate, and compare models for analyzing how the financial institutions interact with the real economy. | |
| 900,000.00 | 4 | Digital Technology/Scholarly Communication | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6703 | -- | Grant investigator: John Lafferty; to accelerate scientific discovery by using statistical machine learning to enable advanced search of mathematical literature. | |
| 80,000.00 | 20 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7748 | -- | Grant investigator: Jack Gilbert; to organize a workshop of early career researchers studying the microbiology of the built environment. | |
| 580,003.00 | 11 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6790 | -- | Grant investigator: John List; initiative: Behavioral and Regulatory Effects on Decision-making (BRED); to study experimentally the welfare economics of nudging and other behavioral interventions. | |
| 499,156.00 | 12 | Digital Technology/Data & Computational Research | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6637 | -- | Grant investigator: Ian Foster; to facilitate more efficient movement, management, and sharing of research data. | |
| 100,119.00 | 19 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6831 | -- | Grant investigator: Eric Posner; initiative: Economic Implications of the Great Recession (EIGR); to hold a conference on analyzing the costs and benefits of financial regulation. | |
| 856,900.00 | 6 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7807 | -- | Grant investigator: Jack Gilbert; to characterize the surface, air, water and human-associated microbial communities in two hospitals to monitor changes following the introduction of patients and staff. | |
| 17,300.00 | 24 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7810 | -- | Grant investigator: Jack Gilbert; to develop a sampling strategy for studying microbial and viral communities in a new hospital during the final months of construction and initial phase of operation. | |
| 995,670.00 | 3 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6906 | -- | Grant investigator: Lars Hansen; to construct and calibrate models for analyzing how the financial sector and its regulation can influence the macroeconomy. | |
| 141,450.00 | 16 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7816 | -- | Grant investigator: Jack Gilbert; to fund a pilot project to examine the microbiome associated with surfaces in the home. | |
| 1,094,203.00 | 1 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7821 | -- | Grant investigator: Folker Meyer; to provide tools and a data archive for analyzing sequence data of microbial communities in the indoor environment. | |
| 35,186.00 | 23 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7829 | -- | Grant investigator: Folker Meyer; to support a two-day workshop on data visualization, imaging, and repositories for the Indoor Environment Program. |