Minnesota · Private foundation
Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $494k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $469k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $444k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $419k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $443k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $419k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $432k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $435k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $444k | 52% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purple & Gray Foundation Inc | $350,000 | 7 | 75% |
| The Capitol Theater Foundation of Burlington Iowa | $241,086 | 9 | 13% |
| Southeastern Community College Foundation | $212,500 | 7 | 4% |
| Des Moines Co Historical Society | $184,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Heart Song Inc | $160,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Burlington Area YMCA Inc | $152,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Iowa Wesleyan University | $140,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Burlington Area Homeless Shelter | $130,597 | 9 | 15% |
| City Hope Foundation | $123,000 | 4 | 16% |
| Burlington STEM Foundation Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 27% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center Inc · Kings Daughters Home for Old People · Jani-Dhuna Foundation · Carl A Nelson Charitable Foundation · John J & Judy a Arledge Charitable · Winegard Foundation · Burlington W Burlington Area United Way · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn
How this is measured
Compare Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation with peer funders
About Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation
- How much does Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation give?
- Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $494,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Education (16%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Purple & Gray Foundation Inc ($350k), The Capitol Theater Foundation of Burlington Iowa ($241k), Southeastern Community College Foundation ($213k).
- Does Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center Inc.
- Where is Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation based?
- Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation is based in MN.
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