John Merck Fund donations made to Science and Environmental Health 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 Science and Environmental Health 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 9 70,000 64,111 45,000 45,000 50,000 60,000 62,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 75,000 75,000 75,000
Environment 9 70,000 64,111 45,000 45,000 50,000 60,000 62,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 75,000 75,000 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 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2001 2000 1998
Environment (filter this donor) 9 577,000.00 45,000.00 70,000.00 70,000.00 60,000.00 75,000.00 50,000.00 75,000.00 70,000.00 62,000.00
Total 9 577,000.00 45,000.00 70,000.00 70,000.00 60,000.00 75,000.00 50,000.00 75,000.00 70,000.00 62,000.00

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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 (9 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 9)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
45,000.0092009-03Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To employ science, policy development and legal reforms in implementing the precautionary principle in state and federal chemicals policy.
70,000.0032007-12Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To lay the legal foundations for incorporating the precautionary principle in tort law, in specific litigation, and in model legislation.
70,000.0032006-12Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To expand the law to implement and advance the precautionary principle that underlies chemical policy reform at the state and municipal levels, by supporting the legal director position.
60,000.0072005-12Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To continue advancing the precautionary principle by facilitating its adoption at state and local levels.
75,000.0012004-12Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To continue advancing the precautionary principle by facilitating its adoption at state and local levels; and to conduct preliminary research about the potential for litigation to address public health impacts from exposures to toxic chemicals, in cooperation with the New York Attorney General’s office.
50,000.0082003-12Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To develop a five-year plan for leveraging momentum in adoption of the precautionary principle and defending it against growing industry attacks.
75,000.0012001-06Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To continue to develop the Precautionary Principle as a unifying and practical tool for the environmental community to use to work for sounder, more far-sighted environmental policy.
70,000.0032000-04Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To provide general support for the network, which serves as an information resource to environmental and health activists and organizations at the local, national and international levels, particularly in regard to toxic environmental exposures and the precautionary principle.
62,000.0061998-12Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To create a full-time science director position.