· Private foundation
J Campbell Murrell Fund
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.
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.
The 23 grants below total $2,159,845 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,110,345 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $950,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $227k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $500k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $875,000 |
| GOSPEL COALITIONS (HQ) | $282,000 |
| AUSTIN STONE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $270,627 |
| BETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARY | $100,000 |
| GOSPEL COALITIONS (AUSTIN) | $100,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP FOR THE PERFORMING | $100,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BREAKAWAY MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| AFRICA NEW LIFE MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| PELETONU | $50,000 |
| HELPING HAND HOME | $36,256 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERISTY (HOOVER INS | $25,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE (BRIDGES INTL) | $25,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE -COLLEGE (TX552) | $25,000 |
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 +40% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- GAGRAMEEN AMERICA INC3× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue +155%
- ANAFRICA NEW LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL4× · 2020–2023 · $260k · revenue +40%
- PIPELOTONU INC3× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- MLMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INCone grant, 2022 · $500k
- GCGOSPEL COALITIONone grant, 2022 · $300k
- TATEXAS A&M FOUDATIONone grant, 2020 · $250k
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.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Austin Lifecare. 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 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 59 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 Texas A&M Foundation ↗
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- Who funds AFRICA NEW LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE REFUGE FOR DMST ↗
- Who funds PELOTONU INC ↗
- Who funds I LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Austin Lifecare ↗
- Who funds SIDE BY SIDE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc
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.
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