Wellcome Trust donations made to Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 2025. 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 Kingdom
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellcome_Trust
Facebook username wellcometrust
LinkedIn username wellcome-trust
Websitehttps://wellcome.ac.uk/
Donations URLhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/grants-awarded
Twitter usernamewellcometrust
Page on philosophy informing donationshttps://wellcome.ac.uk/about-us/our-strategy
Grant application process pagehttps://wellcome.ac.uk/funding#im-looking-for-funding
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteSQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/wellcome-trust

Full donor page for donor Wellcome Trust

Basic donee information

ItemValue
Country
Facebook page MITnews
Websitehttp://mit.edu
Twitter usernamemit
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology
Org Watch pagehttps://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=Massachusetts+Institute+of+Technology

Full donee page for donee Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 18 75,084 72,981 1,342 2,009 26,707 60,444 73,697 75,084 78,800 86,245 97,476 134,427 161,455
FIXME 18 75,084 72,981 1,342 2,009 26,707 60,444 73,697 75,084 78,800 86,245 97,476 134,427 161,455

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 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2001
FIXME (filter this donor) 18 1,313,656.00 20,088.00 368,509.00 84,901.00 113,895.00 372,490.00 97,476.00 227,581.00 28,716.00
Total 18 1,313,656.00 20,088.00 368,509.00 84,901.00 113,895.00 372,490.00 97,476.00 227,581.00 28,716.00

Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)

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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 (18 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 18)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
20,088.00162015-07-20FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Studying the evolution of gene regulation in a fungal pathogen to identify new potential targets for chemotherapeutic approaches. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
86,245.0062014-11-19FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Rational design of brain-permeable imaging agents for molecular MRI in the nervous system . Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
69,164.00122014-09-09FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Science Live. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
134,427.0022014-04-07FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Mechanics of Tumour Cell Extravasation. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
78,673.0092014-04-07FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Uncovering the biological basis of valence-dependent bias. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
84,901.0072013-06-05FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Studying the evolution of gene regulation in a fungal pathogen to identify new potential targets for chemotherapeutic approaches. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
112,553.0032012-10-31FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Supramolecular biomaterials for tissue engineering applications. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
1,342.00182012-04-16FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Towards implementation of a transformative health technology: innovative, whole-system models for rapid, non-invasive, telemonitoring of Parkinson's disease. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
161,455.0012011-12-12FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Optical Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (opto-TMS). Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
55,539.00142011-12-12FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Automating high resolution connectomics. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
60,444.00132011-12-12FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Molecular mechanics of bone: probing the collagen/apatite interface. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
95,052.0052011-12-12FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Advancing the design and understanding of protein interaction specificity using molecular simulations. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
97,476.0042010-12-06FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- A Versatile, Minimally-Invasive Treatment for Cancer: Applying Temporal Focusing to Photodynamic Therapy. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
75,084.00102009-12-07FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Systematic analysis of genes and gene networks differentially expressed in resistant and susceptible animals following Toxoplasma infection. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
78,800.0082009-12-07FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Towards implementation of a transformative health technology: innovative, whole-system models for rapid, non-invasive, telemonitoring of Parkinson's disease. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
73,697.00112009-12-07FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- The systems and synthetic biology of cell-cell variability- a combined statistical and control engineering approach. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
26,707.00152001-07-04FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- An investigation of synaptic transmission between monosynaptically coupled layer III and layer IV neurons and the mechanisms underlying experience-dependent plasticity in the visual cortex. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.
2,009.00172001-04-18FIXMEhttps://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-grants-awarded-2000-2016.xlsx-- Analysis of the pathways antagonising RAS signalling in C.elegans with a focus on histone modification and chromosome remodelling. Affected regions: International; affected countries: United States.