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 Commonweal in our system.
Full donee page for donee Commonweal
| 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 | 16 | 60,000 | 86,688 | 30,000 | 32,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 60,000 | 75,000 | 90,000 | 100,000 | 200,000 | 250,000 |
| Environment | 10 | 50,000 | 98,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 40,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 160,000 | 200,000 | 250,000 |
| Health and Environment | 6 | 60,000 | 67,833 | 32,000 | 32,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 60,000 | 60,000 | 75,000 | 90,000 | 90,000 | 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 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environment (filter this donor) | 10 | 980,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 160,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 115,000.00 | 275,000.00 | 30,000.00 | 250,000.00 |
| Health and Environment (filter this donor) | 6 | 407,000.00 | 32,000.00 | 60,000.00 | 165,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 16 | 1,387,000.00 | 32,000.00 | 60,000.00 | 165,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 160,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 115,000.00 | 275,000.00 | 30,000.00 | 250,000.00 |
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 16) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32,000.00 | 15 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To disseminate “A Story of Health,” an e-book and an online continuing education course. | |
| 60,000.00 | 9 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To delay, reduce, or prevent diseases and disabilities throughout life that are influenced by environmental factors. | |
| 75,000.00 | 6 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To use the findings of the Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging report to engage senior citizens’ organizations and members in promoting policies that foster healthier living for all ages. | |
| 90,000.00 | 5 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To educate national learning and developmental disabilities organizations and neurodegenerative disease organizations about environmental links to neurological disabilities, increase collaboration among them, cultivate opportunities for them to support chemicals policy reforms, and translate relevant emerging science for their use. | |
| 50,000.00 | 10 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To use the findings of the Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging report to engage senior citizens’ organizations and their memberships in promoting policies that will foster healthier living for all ages. | |
| 100,000.00 | 4 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To educate national learning and developmental disabilities and neurodegenerative disease groups about environmental links to neurological disabilities, increase collaboration among them, cultivate opportunities for them to support chemical policy reforms, and translate relevant emerging science for their use. | |
| 160,000.00 | 3 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To educate national learning and developmental disabilities groups about environmental links to learning disabilities, translate emerging science, cultivate opportunities to support chemical policy reform, and increase collaboration and partnerships among groups. | |
| 50,000.00 | 10 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To build capacity within state-based groups to undertake strategic biomonitoring projects and improve biomonitoring project designs. | |
| 50,000.00 | 10 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To use biomonitoring as a technical tool in support of chemicals policies that better protect human and ecosystem health. | |
| 50,000.00 | 10 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To hold the first national conference that explores potential links between Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases and exposures to chemicals in the environment. The conference will provide a discussion forum that is conducive to interaction among researchers, health care providers and people affected by Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative disorders. | |
| 75,000.00 | 6 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To use biomonitoring as a scientific tool that protects human and ecosystem health and informs chemicals policy. | |
| 40,000.00 | 14 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To conduct a six- to eight-month scoping process intended to lead to the development of a resource to assist the religious and spiritual community in engaging in environmental health issues and campaigns. | |
| 75,000.00 | 6 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To create a centralized source of information about biomonitoring projects, data, collection protocols, and communications strategies for organizations interested in chemical body burden and environmental testing. | |
| 200,000.00 | 2 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To support the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative, which will build and strengthen links between environmental health and developmental and learning disabilities constituencies. | |
| 30,000.00 | 16 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To establish policies and programs implementing the Precautionary Principle in the San Francisco Bay Area; to promote its replication in municipalities and communities elsewhere; to strengthen and broaden the existing coalition of activists working to achieve its implementation; and to educate and inform the Bay Area public about the viability and purpose of the Precautionary Principle. | |
| 250,000.00 | 1 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To develop state and national alliances of constituencies with health problems linked to chemical exposures and the health professionals who support them; to develop these alliances within the learning and developmental disability communities nationally; to strengthen public and professional awareness of existing science linking health outcomes to chemical exposure and to encourage further scientific understanding of these linkages; and to link these alliances of chemically health-affected groups and health professionals who support them to public policy campaigns such as the precautionary principle or the phase-out of persistent, bioaccumulative toxins. |