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.
We do not have any donee information for the donee Mercury Policy Project in our system.
| 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 | 13 | 35,000 | 43,015 | 18,500 | 22,700 | 25,000 | 28,000 | 35,000 | 35,000 | 40,000 | 50,000 | 60,000 | 75,000 | 100,000 |
| Environment | 11 | 35,000 | 40,836 | 18,500 | 22,700 | 25,000 | 28,000 | 30,000 | 35,000 | 35,000 | 40,000 | 40,000 | 75,000 | 100,000 |
| Health and Environment | 2 | 50,000 | 55,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 60,000 | 60,000 | 60,000 | 60,000 | 60,000 |
| Donor | Total | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Merck Fund (filter this donee) | 559,200.00 | 50,000.00 | 60,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 25,000.00 | 18,500.00 | 22,700.00 | 30,000.00 | 35,000.00 | 40,000.00 | 35,000.00 | 28,000.00 | 40,000.00 |
| Total | 559,200.00 | 50,000.00 | 60,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 25,000.00 | 18,500.00 | 22,700.00 | 30,000.00 | 35,000.00 | 40,000.00 | 35,000.00 | 28,000.00 | 40,000.00 |
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Graph of top 10 donors (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations
| Donor | Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 13) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Merck Fund | 50,000.00 | 4 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To reduce and eventually eliminate mercury use in lightbulbs, foster purchase of the least toxic and most energy efficient lighting, promote shared business responsibility for recycling discarded mercury-containing lightbulbs, and reduce initial cost of the next generation light-emitting diode technology, which is highly efficient and low in toxicity. | |
| John Merck Fund | 60,000.00 | 3 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To substantially reduce the mercury content of compact fluorescent lightbulbs, encourage purchase of the least toxic and most long-lasting energy efficient lighting, and promote shared business responsibility for recycling discarded mercury-containing light bulbs. | |
| John Merck Fund | 75,000.00 | 2 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To substantially reduce the mercury content of compact fluorescent lightbulbs, foster purchase of the least toxic and longest-lasting energy efficient lighting, and promote shared business responsibility financing for the recycling of discarded mercury-containing lightbulbs. | |
| John Merck Fund | 100,000.00 | 1 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To address the growing problem of mercury in energy efficient lightbulbs by developing and promoting procurement standards that meet both climate and health criteria, and by promoting state and national policies that require lightbulb producers to be responsible for safe disposal of mercury throughout their products’ life cycles. | |
| John Merck Fund | 25,000.00 | 11 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To promote coordinated state, national and international efforts to restrict exports of mercury from the US to developing countries and place surplus mercury into safe storage. | |
| John Merck Fund | 18,500.00 | 13 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To prevent human exposure to mercury through the virtual elimination of mercury emissions in New England by 2010. | |
| John Merck Fund | 22,700.00 | 12 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To coordinate the New England-wide effort to achieve the virtual elimination of mercury emissions in the region by 2010 and prevent human exposure to mercury. | |
| John Merck Fund | 30,000.00 | 9 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | As part of the New England Zero Mercury Campaign, to achieve the virtual elimination of mercury emissions in New England by 2010, thereby preventing further human and wildlife exposures to this persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemical known to cause serious neurological defects. | |
| John Merck Fund | 35,000.00 | 7 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To achieve the virtual elimination of mercury use and emissions in New England by 2010, thus preventing future human exposures that result in damage to neurological functions. | |
| John Merck Fund | 40,000.00 | 5 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To coordinate the New England-wide effort to achieve the virtual elimination of mercury emissions in the region by 2010 and prevent human exposure to mercury. | |
| John Merck Fund | 35,000.00 | 7 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To develop a regional model for reducing and ultimately eliminating human and wildlife exposures to mercury, an endocrine-disrupting heavy metal known to cause developmental disabilities even in infinitesimal quantities. | |
| John Merck Fund | 28,000.00 | 10 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To guide state, national and international policy developments and coordinate grassroots advocacy to advance a national goal of virtually eliminating mercury exposure to humans and wildlife. | |
| John Merck Fund | 40,000.00 | 5 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To create a central coordinating team to steer state, national and international public interest advocacy to effect the virtual elimination of mercury pollution. |