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Ee Murry Family Foundation at a glance

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Ee Murry Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.2MHealth$1.6MRecreation & Sports$805kHuman Services$671kArts & Culture$612kHousing & Shelter$432kCommunity Improvement$295kEducation$260kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $957k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$230,000
TOWN BRANCH PARK$200,000
CIVIC LEX$110,000
LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$67,000
FOOD CHAIN$50,375
HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY CARE$50,000
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS$50,000
THE HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER$50,000
THE LEXINGTON SCHOOL$50,000
LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$45,000
LEXARTS$35,000
FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$28,177
MOUNT HOPE NAZARENE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY$10,000
UK MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $836k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OCONEE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $2k → 6%SAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES: $5k → 12%REVIVING URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $1k → 15%GCAPP: $300 → 13%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS: $42k → 15%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS: $41k → 15%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS: $40k → 15%AARON'S ACRES: $2k → 9%WATER STREET RESCUE MISSION: $200k → 9%WATER STREET RESCUE MISSION: $200k → 9%WATER STREET RESCUE MISSION: $30k → 9%ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES: $14k → 15%ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 15%ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES: $4k → 15%STEP-BY-STEP: $146k → 15%STEP-BY-STEP: $38k → 15%STEP-BY-STEP: $28k → 15%STEP-BY-STEP: $17k → 15%STEP-BY-STEP: $10k → 15%STEP BY STEP: $5k → 15%STEP BY STEP: $3k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY: $2k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 24 repeat orgs$383k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
30

Total granted

$4.9M
$278k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+29%

Still filing today

83%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CH
    CHOICES HEALTHCARE
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +56%
  • TB
    TOWN BRANCH PARK INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $800k · revenue +8%
  • WS
    WATER STREET MINISTRIES
    3× · 2018–2020 · $430k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • NC
    NOLI COMMUNITY DEV CORP
    one grant, 2017 · $125k
  • AY
    ARBOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • DC
    DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +339%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lexington Playcare Center Inc

LPC's mission is to help children become good friends, proficient problem solvers, creative risk takers, and self-governing, accepting classmates. We want them to be as self-sufficient and independent as they can be based on their age and…

Human Services
2
Lexington Public Library

Our mission is to enrich and connect our community through welcoming spaces, engaged staff, diverse resources, and lifelong learning opportunities. we create a stronger community by meeting our customers where and how they need us and…

Education
3
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

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4
Lexington Children's Theatre Inc

To provide professional theatre experiences for young audiences. to provide quality theatre education for young people annually. lct provides quality theatre experiences and theatre arts education for as many as 150,000 children throughout…

Arts & Culture
5
Casa of Lancaster and Lebanon Counties

To provide a qualified and compassionate court-appointed volunteer advocate to every child who is abused and neglected, to ensure the fundamental human right of having a safe, nurturing, and permanent home is met.

Human Services
6
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
7
Community Act Council for Lex-Fay Bour Harr and Nich Counties Inc

Community action council for lexington-fayette, bourbon, harrison, and nicholas counties, inc. prevents, reduces, and eliminates poverty among individuals, families, and communities through direct services and advocacy.

Education
8
Lexington Chamber of Commerce

Serves as an advocate for business by fostering economic growth and prosperity for the benefit of the lexington community.

—
9
Lexington Retirement Community Inc

Kendal at lexington, a not-for-profit life plan community, grounded in quaker values, provides opportunities for a diverse population of older adults from the lexington, buena vista, and rockbridge county, virginia areas and beyond, to…

Human Services
10
Kentucky Public Radio Inc

Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
11
Children's Advocacy Centers of Kentucky Inc

Children's advocacy centers of kentucky, inc. seeks to build relationships at the state and national levels by collaborating with partners which will benefit the work of kentucky child advocacy centers.

Crime & Legal
12
Louisville Central Community Centerinc

Provides community service(family counseling & day care) to the inner of louisville.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexarts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Allegro Dance Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
38/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,717,193 · PhilanthropyBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION I…LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,945 · PhilanthropyLANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDA…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $200,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+1 more: $65,000 · PhilanthropyCHOICES HEALTHCARE: $1,250,000 · Human ServicesCHOICES HEALTHCAREWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $430,000 · Human ServicesWATER STREET MINISTRIESStep by Step Inc: $248,794 · Human ServicesStep by Step IncTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $122,528 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER …+8 more: $38,205 · Human ServicesBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $175,105 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG …NOLI CDC CORPORATION: $169,000 · OtherNOLI CDC CORPORAT…NOLI COMMUNITY DEV CORP: $125,000 · OtherNOLI COMMUNITY DE…LANCASTER CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $107,500 · OtherLANCASTER CATHOLI…LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $44,862 · OtherFOODCHAIN INC: $193,630 · OtherFOODCHAIN INCLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC: $67,000 · OtherLEXINGTON SCHOOL …+30 more: $239,310 · Other+30 moreTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $800,000 · Recreation & SportsTOWN BRANCH …+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsLEXARTS INC: $191,664 · Arts & CultureLEXARTS I…CIVICLEX INCORPORATED: $171,500 · Arts & CultureCIVICLEX …LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $151,000 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON…LEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY: $80,215 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON…LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER: $33,474 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $8,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $347,171 · Crime & LegalAmerican Heart Association Inc: $269,000 · Health
Philanthropy$2,233,138Human Services$2,089,527Other$1,171,407Recreation & Sports$805,000Arts & Culture$635,853Crime & Legal$347,171Health$269,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,717,193 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetCHOICES HEALTHCARE: $1,250,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $800,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $430,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $347,171 over 5y, 13% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $269,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,945 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetStep by Step Inc: $248,794 over 7y, 37% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOODCHAIN INC: $193,630 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetLEXARTS INC: $191,664 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $175,105 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetCIVICLEX INCORPORATED: $171,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetNOLI CDC CORPORATION: $169,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $151,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $122,528 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetLEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY: $80,215 over 3y, 16% of budgetLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC: $67,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $44,862 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER: $33,474 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetDAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARBOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $22,805 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMT HOPE NAZARENE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSeedleaf Inc: $6,258 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetVanderbilt University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKentucky Aquatics: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFAYETTE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALLEGRO DANCE PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCommunity Inspired Lexington Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetONE PARENT FAMILY FACILITY CORPORATION: $2,605 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetADELANTE HISPANIC ACHIEVERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,300 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY: $2,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAARON'S ACRES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEPHRATA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WELL OF LEXINGTON INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMN ACT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOCONEE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Drake House Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Blue Grass Community …American Water Charit…Honorable Order of Ke…Nisource Charitable F…Christian Word Minist…United Way of the Blu…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Rosenstein Family Cha…The Mt Brilliant Fami…Baird Foundation IncKeeneland Foundation …Elhapa Foundation Inc
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY58.2× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Christian Word Ministries Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · Baird Foundation Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ee Murry Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ee Murry Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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