John Merck Fund donations made to Environmental Integrity Project

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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 Environmental Integrity Project

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 8 80,000 76,250 15,000 15,000 75,000 75,000 80,000 80,000 80,000 85,000 100,000 100,000 100,000
Clean Energy 3 80,000 65,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 80,000 80,000 80,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000
Environment 5 80,000 83,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 80,000 80,000 85,000 85,000 100,000 100,000

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 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
Environment (filter this donor) 5 415,000.00 0.00 0.00 75,000.00 80,000.00 85,000.00 75,000.00 100,000.00
Clean Energy (filter this donor) 3 195,000.00 80,000.00 115,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 8 610,000.00 80,000.00 115,000.00 75,000.00 80,000.00 85,000.00 75,000.00 100,000.00

Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not 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 (8 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 8)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
80,000.0042011-12Clean Energyhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo secure the strongest possible federal standards for both the disposal of coal ash and the discharge of toxic pollutants into waterways, and to provide research and analysis to state and regional organizations on coal ash disposal sites, as well as violations of Clean Water Act permits at the eight New England coal plants.
100,000.0012010-12Clean Energyhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo promote and enforce federal regulations of coal ash and other coal combustion wastes.
15,000.0082010-07Clean Energyhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo complete an evaluation of coal ash sites that have contaminated groundwater or surface water with toxic pollutants like arsenic and selenium.
75,000.0062009-12Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To protect public health from the dangers of toxic waste from coal-fired power plants by closing the loopholes that currently allow such waste to be disposed without any environmental rules or oversight.
80,000.0042008-12Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To promote healthier, low-carbon alternatives to coal-fired power plants through new standards that require the industry to assume liability for the disposal risks and costs of coal combustion waste that are now assumed by the public.
85,000.0032007-12Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants from coal-fired power plants.
75,000.0062006-12Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To counter and oppose the Bush Administration and state governments’ failure to enforce air pollution regulations aimed at reducing emissions from power plants.
100,000.0012005-04Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To investigate and document Clean Air Act violations by coal-fired power plants in the Ohio Valley; to bring citizen lawsuits against the owners to require them to reduce the plants’ mercury and fine particle emissions; and to use the lawsuits to publicize the Bush Administration’s environmental rollbacks.