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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
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | |
| Facebook page | nrdc.org |
| Website | https://www.nrdc.org |
| Twitter username | nrdc |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Resources_Defense_Council |
| Tumblr subdomain | nrdc |
Full donee page for donee Natural Resources Defense Council
| 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 | 38 | 50,000 | 54,816 | 5,000 | 15,000 | 45,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 60,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 85,000 | 100,000 |
| Environment | 18 | 50,000 | 50,278 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 45,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 60,000 | 60,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 |
| Disarmament | 11 | 50,000 | 42,545 | 15,000 | 18,000 | 35,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 |
| Health and Environment | 9 | 85,000 | 78,889 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 | 85,000 | 85,000 | 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 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1995 | 1994 | 1992 | 1991 | 1989 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environment (filter this donor) | 18 | 905,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 75,000.00 | 55,000.00 | 95,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 10,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 60,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 60,000.00 | 120,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 5,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Health and Environment (filter this donor) | 9 | 710,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 90,000.00 | 85,000.00 | 85,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Disarmament (filter this donor) | 11 | 468,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | 65,000.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 85,000.00 | 18,000.00 | 50,000.00 |
| Total | 38 | 2,083,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 90,000.00 | 85,000.00 | 85,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 55,000.00 | 95,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 10,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 60,000.00 | 125,000.00 | 125,000.00 | 120,000.00 | 125,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 55,000.00 | 135,000.00 | 18,000.00 | 50,000.00 |
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 38) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75,000.00 | 6 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To reduce or eliminate human and environmental exposure to toxic chemicals by fighting to ensure that science-based, health-protective policies for all chemicals are put in place. | |
| 100,000.00 | 1 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To reduce or eliminate human and environmental exposure to toxic chemicals by fighting to ensure that science-based, health-protective policies are adopted and effectively implemented with particular attention given to priority chemicals of very high concern. | |
| 100,000.00 | 1 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To reduce the public’s exposure to toxic chemicals by participating in federal regulatory rulemaking, promoting state-level chemicals policies, motivating retailers and product manufacturers to adopt better internal chemical management policies, and building internal technical capacity to identify safer alternatives. | |
| 100,000.00 | 1 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To promote federal chemicals policy reform and ensure strong implementation, beginning with regulatory rulemaking. | |
| 75,000.00 | 6 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To better protect the public from hazardous chemicals via state and federal policy reforms; applying market pressure on priority chemicals of concern; defending federal programs for assessing chemical safety from industry attack; and conducting peer-reviewed scientific research. | |
| 15,000.00 | 34 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To continue the legal case fighting the Penobscot River’s mercury contamination. | |
| 75,000.00 | 6 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To reform federal policy to better protect the public from unsafe chemicals; promote state-level regulation of chemicals in the absence of federal action; build market pressure focused on particular chemicals of concern; and defend federal programs for assessing chemical safety from industry attacks. | |
| 85,000.00 | 4 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To protect children and other vulnerable populations from toxic chemicals by: improving the legal and regulatory system, in particular achieving health-protective regulations for high-priority toxic chemicals; expanding the availability of information about the health and environmental effects of toxic chemicals to the public; and promoting up-to-date analytical tools for assessing the risk of chemicals. | |
| 85,000.00 | 4 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To bring scientific and policy expertise to bear in reforming federal regulation of chemicals in the environment. | |
| 75,000.00 | 6 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To reduce the public’s exposure to hazardous chemicals in by promoting fundamental reforms of the federal regulatory structure. | |
| 5,000.00 | 37 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To produce a report on the risks of pharmaceuticals in the water supply. | |
| 50,000.00 | 17 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To clean up mercury-contaminated sediment in the Penobscot River and Bay caused by a chemical manufacturing facility in Orrington, Maine, which was operated by these companies. | |
| 45,000.00 | 31 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To promote coordinated state, national and international efforts to restrict exports of mercury from the US to developing countries and place surplus mercury into safe storage. | |
| 50,000.00 | 17 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | In collaboration with the Maine People’s Resource Center, to compel the HoltraChem Manufacturing Company and Mallinckrodt Inc. to clean up mercury-contaminated sediment in the Penobscot River and Bay caused by a chemical manufacturing facility in Orrington, Maine, which was operated by these companies. | |
| 75,000.00 | 6 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To establish the State Environmental Partnership in order to block federal efforts to pre-empt state environmental, consumer and public health standards that are more rigorous than equivalent federal standards. | |
| 10,000.00 | 36 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To develop a communications plan to encourage the Northeast governors to finalize the agreement for a regional global warming policy to reduce power plant pollution. | |
| 50,000.00 | 17 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To compel the HoltraChem Manufacturing Company and Mallinckrodt Inc. to clean up mercury-contaminated sediment in the Penobscot River and Bay caused by a chemical manufacturing facility in Orrington, Maine, which was operated by these companies. | |
| 60,000.00 | 13 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To compel the cleanup of mercury-contaminated sediment in the Penobscot River and Bay caused by a chemical manufacturing facility in Orrington, Maine. | |
| 75,000.00 | 6 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To compel the HoltraChem Manufacturing Company and Mallinckrodt Inc. to clean up mercury-contaminated sediment in the Penobscot River and Bay caused by a chemical manufacturing facility in Orrington, Maine, which was operated by these companies. | |
| 50,000.00 | 17 | Disarmament | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To promote nuclear nonproliferation, focusing on opposing missile defense. | |
| 15,000.00 | 34 | Disarmament | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To acquire high-resolution commercial satellite photos of Russian nuclear submarine bases to monitor that country’s move toward nuclear nonproliferation. | |
| 60,000.00 | 13 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To remove mercury-contaminated sediment from the Penobscot River, which is estimated to contain among the highest mercury levels in the country. | |
| 50,000.00 | 17 | Disarmament | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To develop and disseminate an educational computer model that simulates nuclear conflicts in the post-Cold War world. | |
| 60,000.00 | 13 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To promote Environmental Protection Agency adoption of stricter standards for mercury emissions from power plants. | |
| 60,000.00 | 13 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To compel, through litigation in federal court, an end to the extremely high levels of airborne and waterborne mercury discharges from the HoltraChem plant in Orrington, Maine. The suit is also seeking a cleanup of the mercury sediments in the Penobscot River, which is so heavily contaminated that it is among the worst mercury pollution problems in the country. | |
| 50,000.00 | 17 | Disarmament | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To promote nuclear disarmament through research, analysis and advocacy. | |
| 75,000.00 | 6 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To revise key EPA regulations regarding mercury emissions and pollution reporting that will increase public information about exposure to this hazardous byproduct of coal-burning power plants. | |
| 50,000.00 | 17 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To generate public support for a strong climate treaty. | |
| 50,000.00 | 17 | Disarmament | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To develop a research and policy framework for moving toward a full elimination of nuclear weapons. | |
| 50,000.00 | 17 | Disarmament | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To research and analyze technical and policy aspects of dismantlement of the US nuclear arsenal, with an emphasis on discontinuation of nuclear weapons testing. | |
| 50,000.00 | 17 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To educate and mobilize NRDC’s membership. | |
| 50,000.00 | 17 | Disarmament | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To promote an end to the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons production complex, specifically for assistance to grassroots organizations that focus on DOE facilities and work involved in analyzing the environmental impact of Complex 21. | |
| 5,000.00 | 37 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To hire an outside consultant to explore ways of enhancing cooperation and collaboration among the national environmental organizations. | |
| 50,000.00 | 17 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To build environmental safeguards in international trade agreements. | |
| 35,000.00 | 32 | Disarmament | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To develop dismantlement procedures for nuclear warheads in the former Soviet Union. | |
| 50,000.00 | 17 | Disarmament | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To halt plans for the new tritium reactor at Savannah River. | |
| 18,000.00 | 33 | Disarmament | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To support preparation of the “Citizen’s Guide to Environmental Protection and National Security.”. | |
| 50,000.00 | 17 | Disarmament | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To collaborate with Soviet Academy of Sciences to verify the presence of nuclear sea-launched cruise missiles aboard a Soviet naval vessel, and to dismantle a Soviet nuclear warhead. |