· Private foundation
Ginger Murchison Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $233k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Athens Independent School District | $420,000 |
| Trinity Valley Community College | $400,000 |
| East Texas Community Clinic | $300,000 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | $125,000 |
| Momentous Institute | $120,000 |
| Baylor Scott White Dallas Foundatio | $114,539 |
| East Texas Arboretum and Botanical | $110,000 |
| City of Athens | $100,000 |
| Vision Africa Ministries | $90,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $79,760 |
| Henderson County Food Pantry | $75,000 |
| Young Life | $60,000 |
| Fairhill School | $60,000 |
| West Dallas Community School | $55,000 |
| Athens Samaritans dba Labor of Love | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $363k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 30% of Ginger Murchison Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 70% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ETEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +177% · 37% of their budget
- MIMomentous Institute5× · 2020–2024 · $595k · revenue +31%
- VAVISION AFRICA MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $440k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- DMDallas Museum of Artgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $111k · revenue +282%
- ASAthens Samaritans dba Labor or Loveone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SBSCOTTSDALE BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $26k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
Truth academy works in partnership with families to integrate high-quality education with biblical truth and discipleship in order to train students, spiritually and academically, how to operate in their god-given purpose and live out a…
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
The Cambridge School of Dallas was formed in 2001 and is a college preparatory, non-denominational christian school established for the purpose of providing academic excellence in a christ-centered environment.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mentoring Alliance and the most unlike its peers is East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 108 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EAST TEXAS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds VISION AFRICA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FAIRHILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERS RAINBOW ROOM ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MERCY STREET ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FEEDING KIDS RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds CARRELL CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEEP ATHENS BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FDN ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Links Players International Inc ↗
- Who funds ARISE AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds Seal Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Servant Foundation · Denman Family Foundation · Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ginger Murchison Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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