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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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2023
23
Itemized grants FY2023
23
Organizations funded FY2023
52%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$2.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$875,000
Organizations funded a year
21 to 26
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
9
Total assets, FY2023
$46M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 52% of the organizations J Campbell Murrell Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
EducationReligionHealthSocial SciencePublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202323$2.2M52%
FY202223$2.2M52%
FY202126$1.6M54%
FY202021$1.6Mn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$1.9MEducation$1.8MHuman Services$739kFood & Nutrition$500kCommunity Improvement$315kInternational$285kArts & Culture$221kYouth Development$218kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Austin Stone Community Church$1,020,6274n/a
Texas A&M Foundation$875,00010%
Grameen America Inc$400,00030%
Africa New Life Ministries International$260,00041%
The Refuge for Dmst$150,00013%
Breakaway Ministries Inc$150,0003n/a
Pelotonu Inc$150,00033%
Bethlehem College & Seminary$150,0002n/a
The Gospel Coalition Inc$100,0001n/a
I Live Here I Give Here$100,00017%
Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of J Campbell Murrell Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Austin Stone Community Church$1,020,6274n/a
Texas A&M Foundation$875,00010%
Grameen America Inc$400,00030%
Africa New Life Ministries International$260,00041%
The Refuge for Dmst$150,00013%
Breakaway Ministries Inc$150,0003n/a
Pelotonu Inc$150,00033%
Bethlehem College & Seminary$150,0002n/a
The Gospel Coalition Inc$100,0001n/a
I Live Here I Give Here$100,00017%
Texas Public Policy Foundation$85,00030%
Austin Lifecare$35,00011%
Side by Side Kids Inc$32,00032%
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research$25,00010%
Bibleproject$20,00030%
Reliant Mission Inc$20,0002n/a
Regents School of Austin Inc$15,00020%
Austin Disaster Relief Network$10,00010%
City School$10,00011%
Fellowship for Performing Arts Inc$10,00010%
MIO Frontiers$5,0001n/a
The God of Hope Ministries$5,00011%
The Reach Project$2,50011%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$2,5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget J Campbell Murrell Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $875,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGrameen America Inc: $400,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAfrica New Life Ministries International: $260,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Refuge for Dmst: $150,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPelotonu Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetI Live Here I Give Here: $100,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTexas Public Policy Foundation: $85,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAustin Lifecare: $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSide by Side Kids Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBibleproject: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRegents School of Austin Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Disaster Relief Network: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCity School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFellowship for Performing Arts Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe God of Hope Ministries: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Reach Project: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Servant FoundationKS24.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About J Campbell Murrell Fund

How much does J Campbell Murrell Fund give?
J Campbell Murrell Fund reported 23 itemized grants totaling $2,159,845, out of $3,110,345 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does J Campbell Murrell Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (14%), Education (14%), Human Services (6%).
Who are J Campbell Murrell Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: The Austin Stone Community Church ($1.0M), Texas A&M Foundation ($875k), Grameen America Inc ($400k).
Does J Campbell Murrell Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does J Campbell Murrell Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as J Campbell Murrell Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, Austin Community Foundation Inc, Christian Community Foundation Inc.
Where is J Campbell Murrell Fund based?
J Campbell Murrell Fund is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $3.3M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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