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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 Toxics Action Center in our system.
Full donee page for donee Toxics Action Center
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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 | 46 | 40,000 | 48,326 | 4,000 | 10,000 | 12,500 | 12,500 | 30,000 | 40,000 | 50,000 | 61,500 | 90,000 | 110,000 | 150,000 |
| Health and Environment | 5 | 12,500 | 9,800 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 12,500 | 12,500 | 12,500 | 12,500 | 15,000 | 15,000 |
| Environment | 27 | 40,000 | 39,537 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 12,500 | 12,500 | 12,500 | 40,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 60,000 | 80,000 | 120,000 |
| Clean Energy | 11 | 100,000 | 85,909 | 20,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 90,000 | 95,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 110,000 | 110,000 | 110,000 | 150,000 |
| Capacity Building | 3 | 61,500 | 53,833 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 61,500 | 61,500 | 61,500 | 70,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 |
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 46) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30,000.00 | 25 | Capacity Building | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To develop a unified “brand” identity that best articulates the organization’s mission, vision, and strategic direction. | |
| 110,000.00 | 3 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo close New England’s remaining coal-fired power plants, secure appropriate redevelopment of sites, prevent overbuilding of natural gas, and mobilize grassroots support for clean energy. | |
| 110,000.00 | 3 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo work toward closure of New England’s remaining coal-fired power plants, prevent expansion of natural gas infrastructure, and mobilize grassroots support for clean energy. | |
| 100,000.00 | 6 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Efficiency/RenewablesTo support Massachusetts Power Forward, a statewide grassroots campaign that calls on Massachusetts policymakers to commit to clean energy and avoid unnecessary expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure. | |
| 110,000.00 | 3 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo support the Campaign for a Fossil Free New England, specifically focused on closing coal plants, preventing expansion of natural gas infrastructure, and ensuring that these objectives are incorporated into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. | |
| 100,000.00 | 6 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo support the Mass Power Forward grassroots campaign on behalf of clean energy policy in Massachusetts, which excludes major expansion of the fossil fuel infrastructure. | |
| 150,000.00 | 1 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo continue the coal campaign, which includes hiring two temporary organizers focused on achieving closure of Connecticut’s Bridgeport Harbor plant and expanding the grassroots movement for clean energy by connecting it to local opponents to natural gas infrastructure. | |
| 5,000.00 | 44 | 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. | |
| 95,000.00 | 9 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo work toward the closure of the five remaining coal plants in New England by 2020 and support permanent retirement, just transition for workers and communities, and appropriate redevelopment or repowering at each site. | |
| 4,000.00 | 46 | Health and Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To protect human health from toxic chemical exposures everywhere Mainers live, work, and play. | |
| 90,000.00 | 10 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo build and support strong grassroots groups to retire coal-burning power plants and secure a just transition for affected communities in New England. | |
| 12,500.00 | 32 | 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 | 25 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo retire the Bridgeport Harbor coal plant. | |
| 30,000.00 | 25 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo retire the Brayton Point coal plant and ensure that Massachusetts is coal free. | |
| 20,000.00 | 29 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Reduce Fossil Fuel UseTo support Action for a Healthy Holyokes campaign to retire the Mt. Tom coal plant and secure a clean and sustainable use for the site. | |
| 15,000.00 | 31 | 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. | |
| 12,500.00 | 32 | 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. | |
| 12,500.00 | 32 | 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. | |
| 12,500.00 | 32 | 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. | |
| 12,500.00 | 32 | 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. | |
| 50,000.00 | 19 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To reduce pesticide exposures through banning aerial pesticide spraying in Maine and through changing ChemLawn’s pesticide practices; and to strengthen the Neighborhood Assistance Project in Rhode Island to work with ten communities to prevent and reduce toxic threats. | |
| 12,500.00 | 32 | 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. | |
| 50,000.00 | 19 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To protect Maine communities from aerial pesticide spraying over blueberry barrens; to curb herbicide spraying on rights-of-way in Massachusetts; to reduce aquatic pesticide treatments in Massachusetts; and to continue the Rhode Island Neighborhood Assistance Project. | |
| 12,500.00 | 32 | 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. | |
| 60,000.00 | 15 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To reduce aerial pesticide spraying on the blueberry fields in Maine; establish Toxics Action Center’s Neighborhood Assistance Project in Rhode Island; and strengthen the citizen and organizational base in New Hampshire to fight toxic pollution. | |
| 10,000.00 | 40 | 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. | |
| 7,500.00 | 43 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To partner with groups in six of twelve states to reframe pesticide exposure as a critical and solvable environmental health problem at the state and national levels using body burden evidence, community monitoring, state campaign activities, and strategic outreach and networking with health-affected groups, health professionals, parents’ organizations, and the learning and developmental disability communities. | |
| 60,000.00 | 15 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To protect northern New England neighborhoods from pesticide and toxic chemical exposure by helping communities impact local, state and national pesticide policy. | |
| 10,000.00 | 40 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | As part of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, to promote reforms in Maine that phase out the unnecessary use of the entire class of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals. | |
| 75,000.00 | 12 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To assist residents and communities in Maine and Vermont in reducing their exposures to toxic chemicals. | |
| 12,500.00 | 32 | 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. | |
| 5,000.00 | 44 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To achieve the virtual elimination of mercury use and emissions in New England by 2010, thus preventing future human exposures that result in damage to neurological functions. | |
| 120,000.00 | 2 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To begin providing assistance to communities in Vermont faced with toxic contamination problems by opening an office in Montpelier; to strengthen the equivalent program in Maine; and to assist residents and neighborhood groups fighting toxic hazards in Connecticut and Massachusetts. | |
| 61,500.00 | 14 | Capacity Building | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To enhance fundraising capacity with a full-time development director and fundraising training for the development and organizing staff. | |
| 55,000.00 | 18 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | In collaboration with Clean Water Fund, MASSPIRG Education Fund and Natural Resources Council of Maine, to achieve major improvements in air quality in New England by reducing pollution from the region’s dirtiest coal- and oil-fired power plants. | |
| 70,000.00 | 13 | Capacity Building | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To increase membership and donor base by hiring a full-time fundraiser. This effort will be complemented in the first year with a fundraising consultant to help craft a donor development plan and to train the new fundraiser. | |
| 10,000.00 | 40 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To develop a regional model for reducing and ultimately eliminating human and wildlife exposures to mercury, an endocrine-disrupting heavy metal known to cause developmental disabilities even in infinitesimal quantities. | |
| 50,000.00 | 19 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To clean up or close down the fourteen most polluting coal- and oil-fired power plants in New England. (collaboration with Clean Water Fund, MASSPIRG Education Fund, and Natural Resources Council of Maine). | |
| 100,000.00 | 6 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To strengthen the assistance provided to local groups and activists confronted with toxic contamination in their communities; and to establish a new program to help residents fight local pesticide use. | |
| 60,000.00 | 15 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To open an office in Maine providing technical assistance, organizational development services, information and outreach to grassroots activists throughout the state working on toxics and environmental health issues. The Center has gotten the blessing of Maine’s principal environmental groups working on toxics to expand its services into the state. | |
| 40,000.00 | 24 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To continue for a third year public education, advocacy and grassroots organizing efforts aimed at cleaning up or closing down New England’s most polluting older coal-fired power plants that represent a major component of the region’s air pollution problems including ozone smog, soot, haze and mercury contamination. The campaign brings together four organizations working collaboratively in five New England States to aggressively improve air quality in the region. | |
| 50,000.00 | 19 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To support the public information and grassroots organizing campaign aimed at cleaning up or closing down New England’s most polluting, antiquated power plants, which contribute significantly to the region’s poor air quality due to ozone smog, soot, haze and mercury contamination. | |
| 80,000.00 | 11 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To support the New England Dioxin Campaign, which strengthens local efforts to eliminate dioxin sources throughout the region, with a special emphasis on dioxin produced in medical and municipal waste incinerators. | |
| 50,000.00 | 19 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To mount public information and grassroots organizing campaigns aimed at cleaning up or closing down New England’s fifteen most polluting, antiquated power plants. | |
| 20,000.00 | 29 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To serve as the local contact organization in preparing for the New England Dioxin Roundtable, and to build and maintain a New England dioxin network. | |
| 30,000.00 | 25 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To report on the relationship between medical waste incinerators and dioxin emissions in Massachusetts and to encourage hospitals and other medical facilities to reduce the dioxin-producing substances in their waste stream. |