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 |
Full donor page for donor John Merck Fund
We do not have any donee information for the donee Center for Health, Environment and Justice in our system.
Full donee page for donee Center for Health, Environment and Justice
| Item | Value |
|---|
| 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 | 5 | 50,000 | 44,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 60,000 | 60,000 |
| Environment | 5 | 50,000 | 44,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 60,000 | 60,000 |
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 | Total | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2000 | 1996 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environment (filter this donor) | 5 | 220,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 10,000.00 | 60,000.00 |
| Total | 5 | 220,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 10,000.00 | 60,000.00 |
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.
Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations
| Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 5) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50,000.00 | 2 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To shift big-box retailers away from PVC plastic in products and packaging, educate consumers about health risks associated with PVC, and support policies that shift the marketplace away from PVC plastics. | |
| 50,000.00 | 2 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To shift the market away from PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic by convincing “big box” retailers, as well as manufacturers and small retailers, to stop selling or using those products; and to instigate and support local and state campaigns to phase out the use of PVC plastic. | |
| 50,000.00 | 2 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To educate the public about the environmental health threats posed by the manufacture, use and disposal of PVC plastic; to channel consumer pressure to encourage strategically chosen corporations to phase out their use of PVC; and to support the passage of state and local policies that ban or phase out PVC and prevent open backyard burning. | |
| 10,000.00 | 5 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To provide travel subsidies to participants from the northeastern US in the International People’s Dioxin Action Summit. | |
| 60,000.00 | 1 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To create a New England regional network to educate people about the dangers of dioxin exposure and link this work nationally. |