John Merck Fund donations made to Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control

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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 Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control in our system.

Full donee page for donee Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control

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 14 50,000 59,393 18,000 25,000 30,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 58,500 60,000 100,000 120,000 120,000
Disarmament 13 50,000 59,462 18,000 25,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 60,000 100,000 120,000 120,000
Capacity Building 1 58,500 58,500 58,500 58,500 58,500 58,500 58,500 58,500 58,500 58,500 58,500 58,500 58,500

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 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
Disarmament (filter this donor) 13 773,000.00 50,000.00 60,000.00 78,000.00 25,000.00 120,000.00 120,000.00 50,000.00 50,000.00 30,000.00 100,000.00 50,000.00 40,000.00
Capacity Building (filter this donor) 1 58,500.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 58,500.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 14 831,500.00 50,000.00 60,000.00 78,000.00 83,500.00 120,000.00 120,000.00 50,000.00 50,000.00 30,000.00 100,000.00 50,000.00 40,000.00

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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 (14 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 14)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
50,000.0072003-09Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To prevent exports from fueling the proliferation of nuclear weapons, chemical/biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them.
60,000.0042002-09Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To prevent exports from fueling the proliferation of nuclear weapons, chemical/biological weapons, and the missiles to deliver them.
60,000.0042001-09Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To prevent the export of technology that could fuel the proliferation of nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapons, and the missiles that deliver them.
18,000.00142001-01Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To improve export controls in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe by training officials in the use of an export control database.
58,500.0062000-05Capacity Buildinghttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To develop and improve three web sites used to distribute information, including the Risk Report, Iraq Watch, and the Wisconsin Project’s institutional web site.
25,000.00132000-01Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To improve export controls in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union by providing officials in six countries with the export control database Risk Report and training in how to use it.
120,000.0011999-06Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To prevent export of nuclear materials and technology.
120,000.0011997-05Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To investigate and report on dangerous weapons and nuclear technology exports, and to promote increased export controls.
50,000.0071996-03Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To inform the public and policymakers about the dangers of the spread of weapons of mass destruction and the importance of strong international export control mechanisms.
50,000.0071995-04Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To promote nuclear nonproliferation by curtailing exports of nuclear weapons materials; and to publish Risk Report.
30,000.00121994-05Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To provide supplemental support to expand operations to include and export information bank.
100,000.0031993-03Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To advocate improved nuclear export controls.
50,000.0071992-03Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To support work on nuclear nonproliferation and export controls.
40,000.00111991-03Disarmamenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To support programs to promote nuclear nonproliferation, with an emphasis on reforming export controls.