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.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Website | https://www.jmfund.org/ |
| Donations URL | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ |
| Page on philosophy informing donations | https://www.jmfund.org/about-us/ |
| Grant application process page | https://www.jmfund.org/for-grantseekers/ |
| Data entry method on Donations List Website | SQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/john-merck-fund |
| 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 | 7 | 50,000 | 71,714 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 | 107,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 |
| Defense of the Public Interest | 7 | 50,000 | 71,714 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 | 107,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 |
If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.
| Cause area | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense of the Public Interest (filter this donor) | 7 | 4 | 502,000.00 | 70,000.00 | 107,000.00 | 325,000.00 |
| Total | 7 | 4 | 502,000.00 | 70,000.00 | 107,000.00 | 325,000.00 |
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
If you hover over a cell for a given subcause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
For the meaning of “classified” and “unclassified”, see the page clarifying this.
| Subcause area | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense of the Public Interest | 7 | 4 | 502,000.00 | 70,000.00 | 107,000.00 | 325,000.00 |
| Classified total | 7 | 4 | 502,000.00 | 70,000.00 | 107,000.00 | 325,000.00 |
| Unclassified total | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 7 | 4 | 502,000.00 | 70,000.00 | 107,000.00 | 325,000.00 |
Graph of spending by subcause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by subcause area and year (cumulative)
| Donee | Cause area | Metadata | Total | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance for Justice (filter this donor) | 225,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 225,000.00 | ||
| Human Rights First (filter this donor) | 177,000.00 | 70,000.00 | 107,000.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Committee for the Preservation of Traditional Military Values (filter this donor) | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | ||
| Rockefeller Family Fund (filter this donor) | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | ||
| Total | -- | -- | 502,000.00 | 70,000.00 | 107,000.00 | 325,000.00 |
Graph of spending by donee and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by donee and year (cumulative)
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Graph of top 10 donees (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations
| Donee | Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 7) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human Rights First | 70,000.00 | 3 | Defense of the Public Interest | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To investigate, describe and provide policy recommendations to remedy the problem of lack of accountability for private military contractors accused of abuse in detention, interrogation and security operations. | |
| Human Rights First | 107,000.00 | 2 | Defense of the Public Interest | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To hire a senior lawyer for the US Law and Security Program. | |
| Alliance for Justice | 50,000.00 | 4 | Defense of the Public Interest | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To conduct a public education media campaign utilizing television and print advertising and the Internet to highlight the debate around the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. | |
| Alliance for Justice | 125,000.00 | 1 | Defense of the Public Interest | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To involve the public and the media in the process for selecting judges at all levels of the federal judiciary, and to support the US Senate in its advise and consent role in the judicial confirmation process. | |
| Committee for the Preservation of Traditional Military Values | 50,000.00 | 4 | Defense of the Public Interest | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To restore historic US practices and policies of humane treatment of detainees. | |
| Rockefeller Family Fund | 50,000.00 | 4 | Defense of the Public Interest | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To provide general support. | |
| Alliance for Justice | 50,000.00 | 4 | Defense of the Public Interest | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To research the list of potential Supreme Court candiates that are likely to be named and identify and research an alternative list of potential moderate candidates. |
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