John Merck Fund donations made to Vermont Community Loan Fund

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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 Vermont Community Loan Fund

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 7 35,000 31,429 5,000 5,000 20,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 40,000 50,000 50,000
Environment 2 5,000 27,500 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000
Job Opportunities 5 35,000 33,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 40,000 40,000

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 2004 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995
Job Opportunities (filter this donor) 5 165,000.00 0.00 0.00 40,000.00 55,000.00 35,000.00 35,000.00
Environment (filter this donor) 2 55,000.00 50,000.00 5,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 7 220,000.00 50,000.00 5,000.00 40,000.00 55,000.00 35,000.00 35,000.00

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 (7 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 7)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
50,000.0012004-07Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To enable Vermont Quality Meats to purchase two refrigerated trucks to transport Vermont meat and cheese products to customers.
5,000.0071999-09Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To provide sheep-management education to Vermont sheep producers.
40,000.0021998-09Job Opportunitieshttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To expand the loan fund’s technical assistance program to make capital accessible to Vermonters who are creating, developing or expanding businesses in the agricultural or natural resource fields.
20,000.0061997-12Job Opportunitieshttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To fund the Campaign for Permanent Capital that will support new and innovative projects that are perceived as too risky for more traditional lenders.
35,000.0031997-05Job Opportunitieshttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To support the Vermont Community Enterprise Fund’s efforts to expand small business loans for agricultural enterprises.
35,000.0031996-08Job Opportunitieshttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To support the Vermont Community Enterprise Fund’s work, particularly in assisting small business and job creation in the environmental and agricultural sectors.
35,000.0031995-07Job Opportunitieshttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To support the Vermont Community Enterprise Fund’s Niche Lending Program, which will focus on building small businesses in the agricultural and environmental sectors.