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 |
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| 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
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Full donee page for donee Clean Air Task Force
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| 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 | 18 | 150,000 | 167,222 | 12,500 | 47,500 | 50,000 | 75,000 | 125,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 200,000 | 325,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 |
| Environment | 16 | 150,000 | 177,188 | 12,500 | 47,500 | 50,000 | 75,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 175,000 | 300,000 | 325,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 |
| Clean Energy | 2 | 75,000 | 87,500 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 |
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 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1998 | 1997 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environment (filter this donor) | 16 | 2,835,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 150,000.00 | 300,000.00 | 372,500.00 | 325,000.00 | 350,000.00 | 350,000.00 | 175,000.00 | 125,000.00 | 275,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 112,500.00 |
| Clean Energy (filter this donor) | 2 | 175,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 18 | 3,010,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 300,000.00 | 372,500.00 | 325,000.00 | 350,000.00 | 350,000.00 | 175,000.00 | 125,000.00 | 275,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 112,500.00 |
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 18) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75,000.00 | 13 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo provide legal and technical analysis to achieve the strongest possible EPA rules governing emissions from power plants, to defend the rules from congressional attack, and to build an industry constituency in support of ongoing reductions in power plant greenhouse gas emissions. | |
| 100,000.00 | 12 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo establish strong regulations under the Clean Air Act that reduce mercury, toxic metals, ozone smog and acid rain emissions from coal plants; and to defend EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from coal plants. | |
| 150,000.00 | 8 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To significantly reduce greenhouse gases in the near term, while decreasing harmful pollutants by requiring coal plants to meet stringent air emission performance standards and creating and funding strong federal mandates for cleaning up diesel engines. | |
| 300,000.00 | 5 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To promote local, state and federal policies to clean up pollution from dirty diesel engines. | |
| 325,000.00 | 3 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To work in partnership with state organizations to achieve a 70 percent reduction in US mobile diesel particulate emissions by 2020. | |
| 47,500.00 | 17 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To study and quantify the health benefits of slowing global warming by reducing air pollution. | |
| 325,000.00 | 3 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Working with partner organizations in twelve states, to spur a 70 percent reduction in US mobile diesel emissions by 2020. | |
| 350,000.00 | 1 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To work with partner organizations in up to fourteen states to achieve a 75 percent reduction in US mobile diesel particulate emissions by 2020. | |
| 350,000.00 | 1 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To work with state partner groups in six to twelve states over the next year to advance diesel engine cleanup in the United States through a number of strategies at the local, state, and national level. | |
| 175,000.00 | 7 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To reduce urban and regional air pollution and global warming emissions from America’s diesel engine fleet by establishing model policies and programs in at least six states. | |
| 125,000.00 | 11 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | In conjunction with the American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago and the Ohio Environmental Council, to begin reducing harmful air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s heavy duty engines by establishing model policies in three to four states, voluntary agreements with manufacturers and owners of heavy engine fleets, and the tightening of emissions requirement through federal rulemaking. | |
| 75,000.00 | 13 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To reform state and federal policies in order to reduce maximum emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, toxic substances and greenhouse gases from the nation’s electric power plants. | |
| 200,000.00 | 6 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To reduce emissions of smog, soot, haze, acid rain, toxics and greenhouse gases from the nation’s mobile engines by reforming state and federal policies and, where possible, achieving voluntary commitments to emissions reductions from mobile equipment manufacturers. | |
| 150,000.00 | 8 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To clean up or close the nation’s oldest, most polluting power plants by ending their exemptions to Clean Air Act regulations that restrict emissions from newer facilities. In addition to working at the federal level, the Clean Air Task Force provides technical, legal, organizing and communications support to state groups and regional coalitions working to end power plant pollution. | |
| 150,000.00 | 8 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To strengthen the science, policy and activist connections between old, polluting power plants and toxic emissions, including dioxin and mercury; and to involve the medical and health care professions in the fight to reduce air pollution from power plants. | |
| 50,000.00 | 15 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To educate the public about the damage that air pollution from power plants causes to ecosystems and wildlife, by involving the scientific community. | |
| 12,500.00 | 18 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To conduct litigation under provisions of the Clean Air Act in order to accelerate reductions of emissions from power plants. | |
| 50,000.00 | 15 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To conduct two advocacy training and strategy sessions on mercury air emissions and energy. |