Philanthro-metrics: Mining multi-million-dollar gifts

The Million Dollar List (MDL, online at http://www.milliondollarlist.org) is a compilation of publicly announced charitable donations of $1 million or more from across the United States since 2000; as of December 2016, the database contains close to 80,000 gifts made by U.S. individuals, corporation...

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Published in:PloS one 2017-05, Vol.12 (5), p.e0176738-e0176738
Main Authors: Osili, Una O, Ackerman, Jacqueline, Kong, Chin Hua, Light, Robert P, Börner, Katy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Age
AIDS
Analysis
Borders
Catalysts
Central nervous system
Charitable donations
Charities
Chin
Climate change
Collection
Colleges & universities
Computation
Data acquisition
Data collection
Data processing
Databases, Factual
Documents
Donations
Economic conditions
Education
Entrepreneurship
Fuels
Fund Raising - methods
Gates
Geography
Gift Giving
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Identification methods
Indicators
Informatics
Institutions
Jaw
Malaria
Medical research
Medicine and Health Sciences
Mining
Nonprofit organizations
Philanthropy
Psychological aspects
Public health
R&D
Ranking
Research & development
Research funding
Scaling
Science
Science Policy
Services
Sex differences
Social aspects
Social factors
Social Sciences
Socioeconomics
Software
Strata
Taxation
Technology
Vector-borne diseases
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Summary:The Million Dollar List (MDL, online at http://www.milliondollarlist.org) is a compilation of publicly announced charitable donations of $1 million or more from across the United States since 2000; as of December 2016, the database contains close to 80,000 gifts made by U.S. individuals, corporations, foundations, and other grant-making nonprofit organizations. This paper discusses the unique value of the Million Dollar List and provides unique insights to key questions such as: How does distance affect giving? How do networks impact million-dollar-plus gifts? Understanding the geospatial and temporal dimensions of philanthropy can assist researchers and policymakers to better understand the role of private funding in innovation and discovery. Moreover, the results from the paper emphasize the importance of philanthropy for fueling research and development in science, the arts, environment, and health. The paper also includes the limitations of the presented analyses and promising future work.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0176738