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| 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 Maine People’s Resource Center in our system.
Full donee page for donee Maine People’s Resource Center
| Item | Value |
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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 | 33 | 30,000 | 34,387 | 10,000 | 15,000 | 21,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 40,000 | 66,150 | 115,000 |
| Environment | 25 | 30,000 | 31,344 | 10,000 | 15,000 | 20,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 35,000 | 53,500 | 81,500 |
| Health and Environment | 6 | 25,000 | 31,025 | 11,000 | 11,000 | 24,000 | 24,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 66,150 | 66,150 |
| Cross-Program | 1 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 |
| Civic Engagement | 1 | 115,000 | 115,000 | 115,000 | 115,000 | 115,000 | 115,000 | 115,000 | 115,000 | 115,000 | 115,000 | 115,000 | 115,000 | 115,000 |
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.
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 33) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50,000.00 | 6 | Cross-Program | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To educate Maine citizens about the undue influence of out-of-state corporate interests on social equity issues like raising the minimum wage and moving the state’s economy toward clean energy solutions to climate change. | |
| 11,000.00 | 32 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To hone a market-focused advocacy strategy to reduce exposures to toxic chemicals and search for safer alternatives. | |
| 24,000.00 | 25 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To protect human health from toxic chemical exposures everywhere Mainers live, work, and play. | |
| 30,000.00 | 10 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To protect human health from toxic chemical exposures everywhere Mainers live, work, and play. | |
| 30,000.00 | 10 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To engage in advocacy and market campaigns in Maine to promote policies at the state and federal levels that protect human and environmental health. | |
| 25,000.00 | 20 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To engage the Maine Small Business Coalition in defending Maine’s strong environmental health standards and programs against efforts to weaken them. | |
| 66,150.00 | 4 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To protect human health from toxic chemical exposures where we live, work and play by ensuring strong implementation of Maine’s precedent-setting safer chemicals policy, and participating in a national coalition to comprehensively reform federal chemicals policy based on the Maine model. | |
| 20,000.00 | 28 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To collaborate with Maine’s Native American leaders to build support for reform of federal chemicals policy among Native communities nationally. | |
| 53,500.00 | 5 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To protect human health from toxic chemical exposures where we live, work and play, in 2010 by: ensuring strong implementation of Maine’s precedent-setting safer chemicals policy; participating in a national coalition to comprehensively reform federal chemicals policy based on the Maine model; and cultivating a new generation of state leadership as safer chemicals champions. | |
| 25,000.00 | 20 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To undertake a final push to ensure the thorough cleanup of the HoltraChem chloralkali plant in Orrington, Maine, by increasing grassroots pressure for an environmentally sound solution for retired mercury including eliminating its commercial use. | |
| 68,609.00 | 3 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To protect human health from toxic chemical exposures by phasing out use and release of persistent toxic chemicals and enacting comprehensive chemicals policy reform in Maine. | |
| 81,500.00 | 2 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To participate in the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, which protects human health from toxic chemical exposures where we live, work and play by advocating elimination of persistent toxic chemicals and comprehensive chemicals policy reform in Maine. | |
| 30,000.00 | 10 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To assist Maine citizens in holding state and federal regulatory agencies and corporate polluters accountable for their failure to protect the Penobscot River from severe mercury contamination and other pollutants. | |
| 115,000.00 | 1 | Civic Engagement | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To implement an organizing campaign that brings together key Maine nonprofit and community leaders to rebuild the power of progressive social change organizations in the state. The project will develop a jointly conceived and executed long-term plan, operations strategy, and fundraising approach that enable local, regional and national funders to invest in progressive social change in Maine. | |
| 30,000.00 | 10 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To protect human health from toxic chemical exposures by phasing out use and release of persistent toxic chemicals and enacting comprehensive chemicals policy reform in Maine. | |
| 30,000.00 | 10 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To assist Maine citizens in holding state and federal regulatory agencies and corporate polluters accountable for their failure to protect the Penobscot River from severe mercury contamination and other pollutants. | |
| 25,000.00 | 20 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To promote reforms in Maine that phase out the unnecessary use of the entire class of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals. | |
| 30,000.00 | 10 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To assist Maine citizens in holding state and federal regulatory agencies and corporate polluters accountable for the Penobscot River’s severe contamination from mercury and other pollutants. | |
| 21,000.00 | 27 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To promote reforms in Maine that phase out the unnecessary use of the entire class of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals. | |
| 30,000.00 | 10 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To assist Maine citizens in holding state and federal regulatory agencies and polluters accountable for their 34-year failure to protect the Penobscot River from severe mercury contamination and other pollutants. | |
| 24,000.00 | 25 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | As part of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, to promote reforms that phase out the unnecessary use of the entire class of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals. | |
| 30,000.00 | 10 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To assist Maine citizens in holding state and federal regulatory agencies and polluters accountable for their 33-year failure to protect the Penobscot River from severe mercury contamination and other pollutants. | |
| 25,000.00 | 20 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To form a coalition of health and environmental organizations that will promote reforms to phase out the use of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals. | |
| 40,000.00 | 7 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To assist Maine citizens in holding state and federal regulatory agencies and corporations accountable for their failure to protect the Penobscot River from severe mercury contamination. | |
| 30,000.00 | 10 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To educate Maine citizens about the new Toxics Use Reduction law, organize them to fight for genuine change in corporate toxic chemical practices, and maintain a leadership position concerning Maine toxics management policy to ensure the smooth implementation of the new program. | |
| 25,000.00 | 20 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To hold state and federal regulatory agencies and polluters accountable for their failure to protect the Penobscot River from mercury contamination and other pollutants; to educate and organize Maine’s citizens around the dangers of mercury and other persistent toxic compounds present in the Penobscot River; to strengthen citizen involvement in the decisionmaking processes concerning the contaminated Penobscot River sediments and HoltraChem site cleanup; and to build a powerful regional citizen’s organization to advance environmental interests. | |
| 15,000.00 | 30 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To provide general support. | |
| 40,000.00 | 7 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To address the multiple toxics threats confronting Maine’s Penobscot Valley and its residents, emphasizing the HoltraChem plant, which has seriously degraded the Penobscot River and Penobscot Bay, as well as soil in the surrounding area, with years of mercury emissions and leaks. | |
| 30,000.00 | 10 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To ensure effective implementation of new Maine’s Toxics Use Reduction law by educating citizens about its potential to spur changes in corporate practices that will result in reducing their use of toxic chemicals; and by assisting citizens in monitoring its enforcement by state agencies. | |
| 35,000.00 | 9 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To support the Penobscot Valley Toxics Action Project with its focus on education, organizing and media work to support an upcoming lawsuit to be filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council aimed at compelling mercury polluters of the Penobscot River to clean up mercury contamination which is the most serious in Maine and possibly the United States. | |
| 15,000.00 | 30 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To educate Maine citizens about the importance of a strong state policy for reducing toxic chemical use and preventing pollution. | |
| 10,000.00 | 33 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To provide general support. | |
| 20,000.00 | 28 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To eliminate chlorine bleaching in Maine’s paper industry, a practice that produces dioxin, by promoting the use of alternative paper products among small businesses and consumers. |