John Merck Fund donations made to Responsible Purchasing Network

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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 Responsible Purchasing Network

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 4 60,000 71,250 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 75,000 75,000 90,000 90,000 90,000
Clean Energy 1 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000
Health and Environment 3 75,000 75,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000

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 2017 2016 2012
Health and Environment (filter this donor) 3 225,000.00 75,000.00 90,000.00 60,000.00
Clean Energy (filter this donor) 1 60,000.00 0.00 0.00 60,000.00
Total 4 285,000.00 75,000.00 90,000.00 120,000.00

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 (4 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 4)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
75,000.0022017-03Health and Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To support states and large cities to more aggressively incorporate safer purchasing into their sustainable procurement policies.
90,000.0012016-03Health and Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To develop and implement model policies and practices that increase the purchase of products free of priority chemicals.
60,000.0032012-06Clean Energyhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- Focus: Increase Efficiency/RenewablesTo research current state procurement policies and practices in New England to determine the opportunities (and barriers) in each state and across the region for using aggregated demand for environmentally preferable goods and services to push the New England marketplace toward greater sustainability.
60,000.0032012-06Health and Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To research current state procurement policies and practices in New England and consult with state procurement officials to determine the opportunities (and barriers) in each state and across the region, for using aggregated demand for environmentally preferable goods and services to push the New England marketplace toward greater sustainability.