John Merck Fund donations made to American Farmland Trust

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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

We do not have any donee information for the donee American Farmland Trust in our system.

Full donee page for donee American Farmland Trust

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 5 100,000 80,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 150,000 150,000
Regional Food Systems 2 25,000 62,500 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000
Environment 3 100,000 91,667 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 150,000 150,000 150,000 150,000

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 2018 2013 1997 1993
Environment (filter this donor) 3 275,000.00 0.00 0.00 150,000.00 125,000.00
Regional Food Systems (filter this donor) 2 125,000.00 100,000.00 25,000.00 0.00 0.00
Total 5 400,000.00 100,000.00 25,000.00 150,000.00 125,000.00

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 (5 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 5)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
100,000.0022018-09Regional Food Systemshttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To create a multi-stakeholder coalition of farmland and clean energy groups to accelerate the expansion of solar facility siting while preserving New England’s most productive farm and forestland.
25,000.0042013-12Regional Food Systemshttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To ensure that farmland in New England and New York transfers from the current (and aging) generation of landowners to a next generation of farmers, which will strengthen farm economies, protect working landscapes, and create a more resilient and healthy regional food system.
150,000.0011997-07Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To launch the Northeast Dairy Grazing Initiative, a major effort to understand better the economic and environmental benefits of grass-based farming systems and to promote their widespread adoption.
100,000.0021993-06Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To establish a Florida field Office, to assist the farming sector as it confronts pressures stemming from urban development and to promote sustainable agriculture in Florida.
25,000.0041993-01Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To facilitate acquisition of the Southern Acres Farm for use as a sustainable agriculture demonstration project.