Merck Family Fund donations received

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 2024. 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 donee information

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Donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 4 150,000 165,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 150,000 150,000 150,000 200,000 200,000 300,000 300,000 300,000
Clean Energy 1 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000
FIXME 3 200,000 216,667 150,000 150,000 150,000 150,000 200,000 200,000 200,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee Merck Family Fund

Donor Total 2019 2017 2016 2015
Barr Foundation (filter this donee) 650,000.00 0.00 200,000.00 300,000.00 150,000.00
John Merck Fund (filter this donee) 10,000.00 10,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 660,000.00 10,000.00 200,000.00 300,000.00 150,000.00

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (4 donations)

Graph of top 10 donors (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
DonorAmount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 4)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
John Merck Fund10,000.0042019-02Clean Energyhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- Focus: TransportationTo produce a study of mass transit costs in the United States.
Barr Foundation200,000.0022017-09-26FIXMEhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants/-- To support research and objective analysis to strengthen the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Barr Foundation300,000.0012016-03-30FIXMEhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants/-- To conduct research and analysis to help strengthen the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Barr Foundation150,000.0032015-04-27FIXMEhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants/-- To conduct the Economic Benefits of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative research project.