This is an online portal with information on donations that were announced publicly (or have been shared with permission) that were of interest to Vipul Naik. The git repository with the code for this portal, as well as all the underlying data, is available on GitHub. All payment amounts are in current United States dollars (USD). The repository of donations is being seeded with an initial collation by Issa Rice as well as continued contributions from him (see his commits and the contract work page listing all financially compensated contributions to the site) but all responsibility for errors and inaccuracies belongs to Vipul Naik. Current data is preliminary and has not been completely vetted and normalized; if sharing a link to this site or any page on this site, please include the caveat that the data is preliminary (if you want to share without including caveats, please check with Vipul Naik). We expect to have completed the first round of development by the end of July 2024. See the about page for more details. Also of interest: pageview data on analytics.vipulnaik.com, tutorial in README, request for feedback to EA Forum.
| 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 Vital Communities in our system.
Full donee page for donee Vital Communities
| Item | Value |
|---|
| 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 | 9 | 40,000 | 43,333 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 25,000 | 30,000 | 35,000 | 40,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 70,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 |
| Clean Energy | 3 | 50,000 | 38,333 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 |
| Regional Food Systems | 1 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 |
| Environment | 5 | 40,000 | 50,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 35,000 | 35,000 | 40,000 | 40,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 | 75,000 | 75,000 |
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.
| Cause area | Number of donations | Total | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2006 | 2004 | 2003 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environment (filter this donor) | 5 | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 35,000.00 | 40,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 70,000.00 | 30,000.00 |
| Clean Energy (filter this donor) | 3 | 115,000.00 | 15,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Regional Food Systems (filter this donor) | 1 | 25,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 25,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 9 | 390,000.00 | 15,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 25,000.00 | 35,000.00 | 40,000.00 | 75,000.00 | 70,000.00 | 30,000.00 |
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 9) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15,000.00 | 9 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Increase Efficiency/RenewablesTo develop a toolkit based on the Solarize experience and produce a Solarize Upper Valley impact report to present data and identify lessons on the cumulative impact of the program over the full three years and across all 24 communities. | |
| 50,000.00 | 3 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Increase Efficiency/RenewablesTo continue the Solarize program in the Upper Valley. | |
| 50,000.00 | 3 | Clean Energy | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Increase Efficiency/RenewablesTo double the number of solar installations in homes, small commercial properties, and farm enterprises in sixteen communities in the Upper Connecticut River Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont. | |
| 25,000.00 | 8 | Regional Food Systems | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | Focus: Food SystemsTo strengthen local food systems by increasing the demand for and access to local foods and by addressing farm-related challenges through partnerships and collaboration. | |
| 35,000.00 | 6 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To provide Upper Valley farmers in Vermont with enough viable markets that their businesses can survive and expand. | |
| 40,000.00 | 5 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To grow successful core local food projects; introduce “Fresh Connections” that will connect two large companies with community supported farms as part of employee wellness programs; and prepare a fee-for-service program for organizations seeking to use Vital Communities materials. | |
| 75,000.00 | 1 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To build a community-driven, local food system by fostering productive relationships between farmers, retail grocers, wholesalers, restaurants, institutions, and local consumers. | |
| 70,000.00 | 2 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To link farmers, consumers, social service and government agencies, processing and slaughter facilities, institutions, restaurants, faith groups, and businesses to increase the demand for and supply of local foods. | |
| 30,000.00 | 7 | Environment | https://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/ | -- | To improve the economic viability of farmers by building a coalition of area farmers’ markets and expanding consumer awareness of and demand for local foods. |