How much does Jane Ellen Murray Foundation give?

Jane Ellen Murray Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $5,914 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.

What does Jane Ellen Murray Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Health (27%), Religion (23%).

Who are Jane Ellen Murray Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Joffrey Ballet ($150k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc ($49k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($16k).

Does Jane Ellen Murray Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Jane Ellen Murray Foundation 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.

Where is Jane Ellen Murray Foundation based?

Jane Ellen Murray Foundation is based in IL.

Jane Ellen Murray Foundation

Jane Ellen Murray Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jane Ellen Murray Foundation

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.

$6k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$4k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$166kHealth$122kReligion$106kInternational$16kPhilanthropy$11kHuman Services$3kYouth Development$3kEducation$1kOther$0

02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,264

Median grant

States reached

$8k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION	$4,264
THE CLARE GIFT TRUST	$1,650

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $336) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$405k · 16 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +56% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$405k

$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%

+56%

Still filing today

38%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

TJ
THE JOFFREY BALLET
3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +90%
MF
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC
5× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +12%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $16k · revenue +98%

Funded once

PA
PALETTE AND CHISEL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTSgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +119%
OW
Operation Walk Chicagograduated
one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +50%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

04Its field

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.

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Air Transport Association of America Inc

Airlines for america (a4a) vigorously advocates for america's airlines as models of safety, customer service, and environmental responsibility; and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global…

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National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

American Society for Nutrition Inc

The american society for nutrition, inc. (asn) was established to advance health around the world through evidence based nutrition. this is accomplished through innovative programs and services designed to advance knowledge, create and…

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 39 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/20

Grantees still filing

18/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$270,911Arts & Culture$150,000International$17,050Health$14,500Education$1,000Human Services$436Food & Nutrition$300

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jane Ellen Murray Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane Ellen Murray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home