· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE 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 |
| LES CHENEAUX CULINERY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| GIVE KIDS THE WORLD VILLAGE | $1,000 |
| LES CHENEAUX YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DMC 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 Chicago Childrens Charities ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Les Cheneaux Yacht Club Foundation ↗
- Who funds HINSDALE JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Henry C and Audrienne Murray Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry C and Audrienne Murray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: 26% of income from government
- Give Kids the World Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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