John Merck Fund donations made to American Corn Growers Foundation

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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 American Corn Growers Foundation

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 7 60,000 55,714 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000
Environment 7 60,000 55,714 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000

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 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999
Environment (filter this donor) 7 390,000.00 60,000.00 110,000.00 120,000.00 50,000.00 50,000.00
Total 7 390,000.00 60,000.00 110,000.00 120,000.00 50,000.00 50,000.00

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

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Graph of spending by cause area and year (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 (7 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 7)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
60,000.0012003-10Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To reduce the acreage of genetically engineered corn planted in the United States by informing farmers of the problems associated with planting these crops, particularly the market resistance to them.
50,000.0052002-12Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To continue building the Soybean Producers of America-a new national soybean association designed to represent and advocate for new policies on behalf of progressive soybean farmers. In particular, the Soybean Producers of America will press for fairer prices to soy producers and will highlight the negative impacts of genetically engineered soybean crops.
60,000.0012002-09Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To reduce the number of planted acres of genetically engineered corn by providing objective information to farmers about the many uncertainties that growing such crops present.
60,000.0012001-12Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To create a National Soybean Association that can represent America’s soybean producers before policymakers and food manufacturers, and which will address the need and desire of farmers to obtain non-genetically engineered soybean crops.
60,000.0012001-09Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To educate corn farmers about the many uncertainties that growing genetically engineered corn entails, with an emphasis on implications for marketing; and to provide farmers with unbiased, objective information so they can make educated decisions about what crop varieties to grow.
50,000.0052000-09Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To encourage corn farmers to seek alternatives to growing genetically modified crops by educating them about market uncertainties for genetically engineered products.
50,000.0051999-07Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To explore the production, use and exportation of genetically modified crops and their impact on US corn growers.