John Merck Fund donations made to Abortion Access Project

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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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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 12 50,000 73,333 15,000 20,000 35,000 35,000 40,000 50,000 90,000 90,000 100,000 100,000 225,000
Capacity Building 2 15,000 17,500 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000
Reproductive Health 10 80,000 84,500 35,000 35,000 35,000 40,000 50,000 80,000 90,000 90,000 100,000 100,000 225,000

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 2008 2006 2004 2003 2002 2001 1999 1997
Reproductive Health (filter this donor) 10 845,000.00 100,000.00 225,000.00 100,000.00 90,000.00 125,000.00 35,000.00 130,000.00 40,000.00
Capacity Building (filter this donor) 2 35,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 15,000.00 20,000.00 0.00 0.00
Total 12 880,000.00 100,000.00 225,000.00 100,000.00 90,000.00 140,000.00 55,000.00 130,000.00 40,000.00

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (12 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 12)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
100,000.0022008-02Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To eliminate disparities in access to safe abortion for rural and low-income women and ensure abortion education and training opportunities for all qualified clinicians, particularly those working or planning to work in underserved communities.
225,000.0012006-02Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To increase access to abortion services by developing new abortion providers and developing clinical training sites for primary care physicians.
100,000.0022004-02Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To expand the number of abortion providers in the US by training advanced practice clinicians and primary care physicians in abortion care.
90,000.0042003-09Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To increase the number of abortion providers in the United States regionally and nationally, by providing training, developing curricula, and advancing public awareness of the need for more providers.
35,000.0092002-09Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To reverse the shortage of abortion providers regionally and nationally by expanding the role of, and providing curricula and training for, family practice physicians and mid-level clinicians.
90,000.0042002-02Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To replicate the success of training advanced practice clinicians (nurse practitioners, physician assistants and nurse midwives) in Alaska, Oregon and Washington to provide abortion care.
15,000.00122002-02Capacity Buildinghttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To develop governance and management systems and to fine-tune its strategic plan.
20,000.00112001-09Capacity Buildinghttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To conduct an organizational assessment to determine whether the organization should grow and to identify the steps and new structures that such growth would require.
35,000.0092001-09Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To develop and advance initiatives directly addressing the shortage of abortion providers both regionally and nationally. They include: promoting hospital-based services; expanding the roll of family practice physicians and advanced practice clinicians (nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and physician assistants) in abortion care; stimulating and strengthening abortion training in medical and nursing education; and promoting public awareness of abortion as a mainstream health care service and choice.
50,000.0071999-12Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To provide general support for programs that seek to improve access to abortion services, such as making procedures available at hospitals and facilitating training for medical students, medical residents and mid-level health care professionals.
80,000.0061999-06Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To establish the New England Midlevel Training Consortium, which will train midwives and nurse practitioners to perform first-trimester surgical abortion and then link them with medical practices in the states that allow midlevel health practitioners to provide these services.
40,000.0081997-09Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To expand Nursing Students for Choice through a network of university- and hospital-based chapters.