· Private foundation
Henry C and Audrienne Murray Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
64% of Henry C and Audrienne Murray Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Denver Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DENVER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MACKINAC ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST ANNE'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $6,500 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| GIVE KIDS THE WORLD VILLAGE | $1,000 |
| LES CHENEAUX CULINERY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| LES CHENEAUX YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of your 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.
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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- LCLES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL INC5× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +10%
- MAMACKINAC ARTS COUNCIL5× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +33%
- HIHIGHFIELDS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $8k
- PCPETOSKEY CLUBone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TCTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue ×18
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.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Cooperatively empowering credit unions to increase financial well-being by supporting community enrichment, financial education, and credit union development initiatives
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
We connect people who care with causes that matter, bringing health, happiness, and hope to our community, now and forever.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Awarding grants and scholarships.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Mission statement: to gather, grow, and give endowed charitable financial resources to build stronger, more vibrant communities now and into the future.value statement:we are committed to managing our clients' philanthropic endowments in…
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Conscious Alliance. 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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DMC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHFIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES BOAT BUILDING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Les Cheneaux Yacht Club Foundation ↗
- Who funds Chicago Childrens Charities ↗
- Who funds HINSDALE JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
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: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Henry C and Audrienne Murray 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.
- Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc — 26% of income from government
- Give Kids the World Inc — 0% of income from government
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.