John Merck Fund donations made to Legal Momentum

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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 Legal Momentum

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 7 35,000 39,286 30,000 30,000 30,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 45,000 45,000 50,000 50,000 50,000
Reproductive Health 7 35,000 39,286 30,000 30,000 30,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 45,000 45,000 50,000 50,000 50,000

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 2006 1997 1996 1994 1993 1992 1991
Reproductive Health (filter this donor) 7 275,000.00 50,000.00 50,000.00 35,000.00 35,000.00 45,000.00 30,000.00 30,000.00
Total 7 275,000.00 50,000.00 50,000.00 35,000.00 35,000.00 45,000.00 30,000.00 30,000.00

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 (7 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 7)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
50,000.0012006-02Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To explore possible legal responses to government-funded abstinence-only-until-marriage education programs.
50,000.0011997-11Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To assist communities in enacting local ordinances to protect reproductive health clinics.
35,000.0041996-01Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To investigate financial links between Operation Rescue and the religious right.
35,000.0041994-12Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To support the Agenda for Choice Project, which conducts litigation against Operation Rescue.
45,000.0031993-10Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To support components of the Agenda for Choice Project that relate to Operation Rescue.
30,000.0061992-09Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To support the Agenda for Choice Project.
30,000.0061991-06Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To support the Operation Rescue Litigation Program.