John Merck Fund donations made to 20/20 Vision Education Fund

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country United States
Websitehttps://www.jmfund.org/
Donations URLhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/
Page on philosophy informing donationshttps://www.jmfund.org/about-us/
Grant application process pagehttps://www.jmfund.org/for-grantseekers/
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteSQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/john-merck-fund

Full donor page for donor John Merck Fund

Basic donee information

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Full donee page for donee 20/20 Vision Education Fund

Donor–donee relationship

Item Value

Donor–donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 8 35,000 34,375 15,000 15,000 30,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 40,000 50,000 50,000
Environment 4 35,000 30,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000
Disarmament 4 35,000 38,750 30,000 30,000 30,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 40,000 40,000 50,000 50,000 50,000

Donation amounts by cause area and year

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 Total 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997
Disarmament (filter this donor) 4 155,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 35,000.00 40,000.00 30,000.00
Environment (filter this donor) 4 120,000.00 35,000.00 35,000.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 8 275,000.00 35,000.00 85,000.00 50,000.00 35,000.00 40,000.00 30,000.00

Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)

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Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (8 donations)

Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
Amount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 8)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
35,000.0032002-09Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To educate and mobilize members and other citizens to petition the US Department of Agriculture for better regulation of genetically engineered products, including food labeling; and target several big-brand corporations to change their policy on GE products.
35,000.0032001-09Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To educate and mobilize members, their communities, and a vast public now reachable through the Internet to advocate for labeling of genetically modified foods and a moratorium on new genetically engineered products until they are proven safe.
50,000.0012001-06Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To educate the public and key policymakers on national missile defense and taking nuclear weapons off alert, using monthly action cards, Internet-based activism, partnerships with faith groups, and field organizing in target regions.
35,000.0032000-09Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- With brief information and recommended action steps on cards sent monthly to members, 20/20 Vision Education Fund will promote adequate federal regulation, where none currently exist, of genetically engineered foods. Specific project objectives are labeling to allow consumers an informed choice, and testing to assure safety before products are marketed.
15,000.0082000-09Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To purchase technology to improve the organization’s ability to track its effectiveness in reaching the public with information.
35,000.0031999-09Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To educate US citizens about nuclear weapons testing, de-alerting of nuclear weapons and reductions in nuclear arsenals.
40,000.0021998-09Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To provide public education on the importance of a ban on nuclear weapons tests.
30,000.0071997-09Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To raise public awareness and knowledge of the importance of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which would ban all tests of nuclear weapons throughout the world.