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 | UCDavis |
| Website | http://www.ucdavis.edu/ |
| Twitter username | ucdavis |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Davis |
| Instagram username | ucdavis |
Full donee page for donee University of California, Davis
| 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 | 22 | 250,000 | 447,605 | 20,000 | 25,000 | 91,063 | 101,430 | 245,721 | 250,000 | 412,564 | 700,000 | 784,007 | 998,796 | 1,500,000 |
| Digital Technology | 3 | 50,000 | 105,240 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 245,721 | 245,721 | 245,721 | 245,721 |
| Higher Education | 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 |
| Working Longer | 2 | 25,000 | 62,500 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 |
| Energy and Environment | 5 | 250,000 | 252,112 | 91,063 | 91,063 | 91,063 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 256,933 | 256,933 | 412,564 | 412,564 |
| Science | 10 | 750,000 | 763,038 | 101,430 | 101,430 | 120,000 | 307,443 | 700,000 | 750,000 | 784,007 | 997,485 | 998,796 | 1,371,214 | 1,500,000 |
| Economics | 1 | 495,650 | 495,650 | 495,650 | 495,650 | 495,650 | 495,650 | 495,650 | 495,650 | 495,650 | 495,650 | 495,650 | 495,650 | 495,650 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Science (filter this donor) | 10 | 7,630,375.00 | 851,430.00 | 784,007.00 | 0.00 | 1,697,485.00 | 427,443.00 | 998,796.00 | 0.00 | 1,500,000.00 | 1,371,214.00 |
| Energy and Environment (filter this donor) | 5 | 1,260,560.00 | 0.00 | 919,497.00 | 91,063.00 | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Economics (filter this donor) | 1 | 495,650.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 495,650.00 | 0.00 |
| Digital Technology (filter this donor) | 3 | 315,721.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | 20,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 245,721.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Working Longer (filter this donor) | 2 | 125,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 125,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Higher Education (filter this donor) | 1 | 20,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 22 | 9,847,306.00 | 851,430.00 | 1,753,504.00 | 111,063.00 | 1,947,485.00 | 427,443.00 | 1,264,517.00 | 125,000.00 | 1,995,650.00 | 1,371,214.00 |
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 22) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 750,000.00 | 6 | Science/Deep Carbon Observatory | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8482 | -- | Grant investigator: Louise Kellogg; to lead the modeling and visualization activities of the Deep Carbon Observatory to achieve maximum contributions and legacies during the synthesis phase of the program. | |
| 101,430.00 | 16 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8585 | -- | Grant investigator: Jonathan Eisen; to develop a business plan to sustain the activities of the Microbiology of the Built Environment Network. | |
| 50,000.00 | 19 | Digital Technology/Data & Computational Research | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8493 | -- | Grant investigator: Peter Brantley; to further develop tools for the distributed transcription and classification of data from historic sources. | |
| 250,000.00 | 12 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8241 | -- | Grant investigator: David Rapson; to research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by examining the relationship between electricity rate structures and consumer investments in energy efficient appliances. | |
| 256,933.00 | 11 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8243 | -- | Grant investigator: Katrina Jessoe; to research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by studying how changing default participation options in a commercial energy efficiency program impacts program enrollment and energy use. | |
| 784,007.00 | 5 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8206 | -- | Grant investigator: Jonathan Eisen; to provide final renewed support for the Microbiology of the Built Environment Network (microBEnet). | |
| 412,564.00 | 9 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8138 | -- | Grant investigator: James Bushnell; to quantify existing and pending distribution system impacts of high levels of penetration of distributed energy resources and loads. | |
| 91,063.00 | 18 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8148 | -- | Grant investigator: Kevin Novan; to research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, focused on understanding how the targeting and timing of energy efficiency information provision impacts program participation. | |
| 20,000.00 | 21 | Digital Technology/Scholarly Communication | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6690 | -- | Grant investigator: Charles Brown; to support a workshop to enhance and extend the functionality of the mybinder notebook computing platform. | |
| 700,000.00 | 7 | Science/Deep Carbon Observatory | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7671 | -- | Grant investigator: Louise Kellogg; to form a Deep Carbon Modeling Forum and to stimulate creation of a system of linked models that represent and explore the dynamics of the deep carbon system as a whole. | |
| 997,485.00 | 4 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7750 | -- | Grant investigator: Jonathan Eisen; to provide renewed support for the Microbiology of the Built Environment Network. | |
| 250,000.00 | 12 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7465 | -- | Grant investigator: Amy Jaffe; to study the technological, economic, and environmental trade-offs associated with the use of natural gas as a low-carbon transportation fuel option in the United States. | |
| 307,443.00 | 10 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7791 | -- | Grant investigator: David Mills; to examine the seasonal nature of the built environment microbiota in wine- and cheese-making facilities. | |
| 120,000.00 | 15 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7759 | -- | Grant investigator: Zachery Lewis; to examine the role of the built environment as a venue for microbial cross inoculation between infants. | |
| 998,796.00 | 3 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7778 | -- | Grant investigator: Jonathan Eisen; to provide renewed support for the Microbiology of the Built Environment Network. | |
| 20,000.00 | 21 | Higher Education/Education and Professional Advancement for Underrepresented Groups | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7617 | -- | Grant investigator: William Jackson; to maintain the 16 % minority enrollment rate in the department of chemistry and to determine whether providing small amounts of funds to doctoral students when they initially arrive at the university can maintain the small dropout rate. | |
| 245,721.00 | 14 | Digital Technology/Data & Computational Research | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6643 | -- | Grant investigator: Holly Bik; to develop a web-based framework for the visualization of scientific data generated by standard data pipelines. | |
| 25,000.00 | 20 | Working Longer/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7043 | -- | Grant investigator: Lydia Howell; to further accelerate the school's progress in achieving faculty career flexibility. Funds granted to institution as a winner of the 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Faculty Career Flexibility in Medical Schools. | |
| 100,000.00 | 17 | Working Longer/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7062 | -- | Grant investigator: Maureen Stanton; in recognition of the institution's 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Best Practices for Faculty Retirement Transitions. | |
| 1,500,000.00 | 1 | Science/Deep Carbon Observatory | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7710 | -- | Grant investigator: Giulia Galli; to initiate the research of the team of the Deep Carbon Observatory concerned with basic physics and chemistry of carbon at the extreme pressure and temperature conditions of Earth's interior. | |
| 495,650.00 | 8 | Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6907 | -- | Grant investigator: Robert Feenstra; to enable international economic comparisons by supporting the Penn World Table's next generation. | |
| 1,371,214.00 | 2 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7828 | -- | Grant investigator: Jonathan Eisen; to establish and support the Microbiomes of Built Environments Network (microBEnet). |