Philanthropy
The Rada Research Trust supports the legacy of the Trustor and advances in artificial intelligence.
Awards Made
- 2024 endowed awards,
- 2025 endowed awards and semi-automated the process, and
- 2026 extended the giving and automation.
For a list of funds previously endowed click here.
Automating my Philanthropy
To walk the talk, I am attempting to automate (make artificially intelligent) my philanthopic giving (for full details click here):
- downloaded a year's worth of Form 990s from the IRS website, filtered certain fields into Excel workbooks, and used Excel VBA to rank order the entities according to their Form 990 content.
- crawled and scraped (written in Python) the web sites of high-rated entities and extracted quotes about the minimum dollar amount to endow a named, targeted scholarship.
- refined the Form 990 processing with a Python program that downloads the IRS Business Master File and Form 990s, loaded them into a Relational Database Management System, and rank ordered entities by their attributes.
Visit the three
GitHub repositories to freely get the code.
Grantor
My life in three phases has been learn to fill a role in an organization, fill that role, and illness (for a visual travelogue of the disease process click here).
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Phases one and two did not prepare me for phase three which is rapidly drawing to a close.
