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 2020. 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
We do not have any donee information for the donee University of Texas, Austin in our system.
Full donee page for donee University of Texas, Austin
| 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 | 24 | 75,000 | 392,759 | 19,583 | 49,973 | 50,000 | 63,778 | 74,996 | 75,000 | 125,000 | 255,734 | 530,060 | 1,501,154 | 3,200,145 |
| Digital Technology | 2 | 19,583 | 327,422 | 19,583 | 19,583 | 19,583 | 19,583 | 19,583 | 19,583 | 635,261 | 635,261 | 635,261 | 635,261 | 635,261 |
| Science | 8 | 74,996 | 109,509 | 42,433 | 42,433 | 63,778 | 70,043 | 74,996 | 74,996 | 75,000 | 124,158 | 169,929 | 255,734 | 255,734 |
| Working Longer | 3 | 265,051 | 1,171,723 | 49,973 | 49,973 | 49,973 | 49,973 | 265,051 | 265,051 | 265,051 | 3,200,145 | 3,200,145 | 3,200,145 | 3,200,145 |
| Public Understanding | 2 | 50,000 | 53,750 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 57,500 | 57,500 | 57,500 | 57,500 | 57,500 |
| Energy and Environment | 8 | 125,000 | 518,460 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 75,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 | 300,000 | 530,060 | 1,501,154 | 1,516,462 | 1,516,462 |
| Higher Education | 1 | 124,949 | 124,949 | 124,949 | 124,949 | 124,949 | 124,949 | 124,949 | 124,949 | 124,949 | 124,949 | 124,949 | 124,949 | 124,949 |
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 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy and Environment (filter this donor) | 8 | 4,147,676.00 | 50,000.00 | 300,000.00 | 530,060.00 | 125,000.00 | 1,516,462.00 | 0.00 | 1,501,154.00 | 125,000.00 |
| Working Longer (filter this donor) | 3 | 3,515,169.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 265,051.00 | 3,200,145.00 | 49,973.00 | 0.00 |
| Science (filter this donor) | 8 | 876,071.00 | 145,039.00 | 255,734.00 | 0.00 | 244,929.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 230,369.00 |
| Digital Technology (filter this donor) | 2 | 654,844.00 | 0.00 | 654,844.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Higher Education (filter this donor) | 1 | 124,949.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 124,949.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Public Understanding (filter this donor) | 2 | 107,500.00 | 57,500.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 24 | 9,426,209.00 | 252,539.00 | 1,210,578.00 | 530,060.00 | 544,878.00 | 1,781,513.00 | 3,200,145.00 | 1,551,127.00 | 355,369.00 |
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
| Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 24) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74,996.00 | 15 | Science/Chemistry of Indoor Environments | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8475 | -- | Grant investigator: Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz; to support HOMEChem documentation as a basis for education and outreach activities. | |
| 57,500.00 | 18 | Public Understanding/Books | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8467 | -- | Grant investigator: Michael Webber; to support Power Trip: The Story of Energy by Michael Webber, to be published by Basic Books in 2019. | |
| 70,043.00 | 16 | Science/Chemistry of Indoor Environments | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8477 | -- | Grant investigator: Richard Corsi; to examine ozone reactions with four common indoor materials. | |
| 50,000.00 | 19 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8565 | -- | Grant investigator: Thomas Edgar; to support the 2018 Energy Journalism Workshop in order to inform journalists covering energy and environmental issues of novel research findings. | |
| 255,734.00 | 8 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8216 | -- | Grant investigator: Kerry Kinney; to conduct a case study of how hidden spaces in a portable classroom building influence the indoor microbiome as a function of building ventilation and operation. | |
| 635,261.00 | 4 | Digital Technology/Scholarly Communication | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8028 | -- | Grant investigator: James Howison; to raise the visibility of and improve incentives for software work as a contribution in the scientific literature. | |
| 300,000.00 | 6 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8154 | -- | Grant investigator: Michael Webber; to curate, merge, anonymize, and examine residential smart meter data in the competitive electricity market areas of Texas. | |
| 19,583.00 | 24 | Digital Technology/Data & Computational Research | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6599 | -- | Grant investigator: James Howison; to support a small summit of ethnographers of data and software practices. | |
| 530,060.00 | 5 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7466 | -- | Grant investigator: Bridget Scanlon; to examine the hydrological characteristics of five major shale gas and shale oil regions, including understanding environmental impacts on regional water resources and induced seismicity effects from wastewater disposal. | |
| 75,000.00 | 13 | Science/Deep Carbon Observatory | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7679 | -- | Grant investigator: Beverly DeJarnett; to advance use of existing scientific collections for Deep Carbon Observatory projects and curation of samples. | |
| 124,949.00 | 11 | Higher Education/Education and Professional Advancement for Underrepresented Groups | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7591 | -- | Grant investigator: William Aspray; initiative: Professional Advancement of Underrepresented Groups; to better understand the historical development of IT education in the United States and its role in creating a diverse workforce. | |
| 75,000.00 | 13 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7472 | -- | Grant investigator: Svetlana Ikonnikova; to enhance analysis of the Marcellus Shale productivity outlook by reducing ranges of uncertainty for geologic mapping and gas production profiles. | |
| 50,000.00 | 19 | Public Understanding/Television | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7365 | -- | Grant investigator: Michael Webber; to produce a 5- to 7-minute demo reel and revised treatment for a 6-part PBS series "Energy at the Movies". | |
| 50,000.00 | 19 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7474 | -- | Grant investigator: Michael Webber; to provide partial support to examine the national potential for using flared natural gas to treat wastewater at shale oil production sites. | |
| 169,929.00 | 9 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7764 | -- | Grant investigator: Kerry Kinney; to determine how the microbiome and air quality inside portable classroom buildings are affected by ventilation conditions and building design. | |
| 1,516,462.00 | 2 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7426 | -- | Grant investigator: Scott Tinker; initiative: Shale Gas; to examine the capability of U.S. shale oil to contribute significantly to oil supply for the next 20 years, under various economic and technology assumptions. | |
| 265,051.00 | 7 | Working Longer/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7012 | -- | Grant investigator: Chandra Muller; to provide supplemental funds to Grant #2012-KEC-12 so as to provide adequate incentive payments to respondents of the High School & Beyond Study (HSB) to ensure an 80 percent response rate. | |
| 3,200,145.00 | 1 | Working Longer/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7063 | -- | Grant investigator: Chandra Muller; to follow up the original nationally representative High School and Beyond (HSB) study to produce a valuable new data infrastructure and research findings about the foundation for working longer. | |
| 1,501,154.00 | 3 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7434 | -- | Grant investigator: Scott Tinker; initiative: Shale Gas; to determine the capability of U.S. shale gas to contribute significantly to natural gas supply over the next twenty years, given various assumptions about natural gas prices. | |
| 49,973.00 | 22 | Working Longer/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7074 | -- | Grant investigator: Chandra Muller; to determine feasibility of a follow-up study of the High School and Beyond (HSB) respondents to provide vital information about linkages of early cognitive and non-cognitive skills to labor force outcomes for older Americans. | |
| 63,778.00 | 17 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7824 | -- | Grant investigator: Richard Corsi; to support the Symposium on Microbiomes of Built Environments at Indoor Air 2011. | |
| 124,158.00 | 12 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7825 | -- | Grant investigator: Jeffrey Siegel; to investigate the microbial communities of retail stores. | |
| 42,433.00 | 23 | Science/Microbiology of the Built Environment | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7827 | -- | Grant investigator: LeeAnn Kahlor; to determine essential baseline IE knowledge of experts and identify decision-makers. | |
| 125,000.00 | 10 | Energy and Environment/ | https://sloan.org/grant-detail/7430 | -- | Grant investigator: Scott Tinker; initiative: Shale Gas; to explore the opportunities and obstacles to the growth of natural gas as a primary energy source. |