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 The Foundation on Economic Trends 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 | 2 | 100,000 | 125,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 |
| Environment | 2 | 100,000 | 125,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 |
| Donor | Total | 2001 | 1999 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Merck Fund (filter this donee) | 250,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 150,000.00 |
| Total | 250,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 150,000.00 |
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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 2) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Merck Fund | 100,000.00 | 2 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To pursue two lawsuits in federal courts seeking to prevent biotechnology companies from monopolizing the world’s supply of agricultural crop seeds, and to establish that genetic material cannot be patented. | |
| John Merck Fund | 150,000.00 | 1 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To file two federal lawsuits aimed at slowing the current rapid transition to genetically engineered agriculture in the United States. The first lawsuit will charge the US Patent and Trademark Office with illegally allowing patents on genes in violation of federal statutes prohibiting patents on “discoveries of nature.” The second lawsuit is anti-trust litigation that claims a small number of multi-national corporations are creating a monopoly on the system of food production, which has dangerous implications for the world’s food supply. Both lawsuits may have international ramifications. |