John Merck Fund donations made to SIECUS (Sexuality Information & Education Council of the US)

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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

We do not have any donee information for the donee SIECUS (Sexuality Information & Education Council of the US) in our system.

Full donee page for donee SIECUS (Sexuality Information & Education Council of the US)

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 10 50,000 52,000 15,000 15,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 65,000 65,000 75,000
Reproductive Health 10 50,000 52,000 15,000 15,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 65,000 65,000 75,000

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 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
Reproductive Health (filter this donor) 10 520,000.00 50,000.00 50,000.00 115,000.00 65,000.00 65,000.00 50,000.00 75,000.00 50,000.00
Total 10 520,000.00 50,000.00 50,000.00 115,000.00 65,000.00 65,000.00 50,000.00 75,000.00 50,000.00

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 (10 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 10)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
50,000.0042009-03Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To promote comprehensive sexuality education programs and policies to replace harmful and ineffective abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.
50,000.0042008-04Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To use education and advocacy to secure and protect the sexual and reproductive health and rights of people in the US.
50,000.0042007-06Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To work with Advocates for Youth to adequately prepare for and counter the messaging and media work of the National Abstinence Education Association.
65,000.0022007-02Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To use education and advocacy to secure and protect the sexual and reproductive health and rights of people in the US.
65,000.0022006-02Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To secure and protect the sexual and reproductive health and rights of people in the US, using education and advocacy.
15,000.00102005-02Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To maximize media and policymaker attention to abstinence-only-until marriage programs generated by the report on the content of federally funded abstinence-only education programs.
50,000.0042005-02Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To promote comprehensive sexuality education by educating policymakers, mobilizing advocates, conducting policy analysis, and working with colleagues at the national, state and local levels.
50,000.0042004-02Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To promote comprehensive sexuality education by educating policymakers, mobilizing advocates, conducting policy analysis, and working with colleagues at the national, state and local levels.
75,000.0012003-02Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To protect and expand national and state policies that support comprehensive sexuality education, access to reproductive health care, and teen pregnancy prevention.
50,000.0042002-02Reproductive Healthhttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To promote federal and state policies that support comprehensive sexuality education and challenge opponents of sexual and reproductive health policies.