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· Private foundation
KAREN MURRELL FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$110k
Granted FY2024
18
Grants
1
Communities
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of KAREN MURRELL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
—
2020
—
2021
goodscholarships
2022
badinscholarship
2023
expmedical
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 18 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
$2,700
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- BADIN HIGH SCHOOL$39,592
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$16,500
- TEDDY KRAMER SCHOLARSHIP$10,000
- GOOD SAMARATIN FOUNDATION$10,000
- ROGER BACON HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
- CARING CLOSET$5,000
- MATT SHAMP FUNDRAISER$3,907
- OHIO HISPANIC COALITION$3,000
- DUSTIN BOWER$2,700
- ANIMAL ADOPTION FOUNDATION$2,000
- JOE NUXHALL GOLF OUTING$1,500
- FRIENDS OF PARKS$1,500
- MATT MURRELL$1,200
- HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI$1,000
- DFP BASH$1,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 25% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$362k · 16 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
16
17
Total granted
$362k
$30k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+62%
+219%
Still filing today
38%
18%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesAnimalsReligionRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHealthOther
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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +239%
- NGNEUROFIT GYM3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +149%
- AAANIMAL ADOPTION FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- CCISEone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -37%
- SJST JOSEPH CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SLSUNFLOWER LLCone grant, 2019 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stages of life.
Human Services
2
Hospice of Dayton Inc
To provide hospice and palliative care for the terminally ill and support for their families.
Human Services
3
Hamilton Medical Center Inc
Hamilton medical center, inc. operates a 255-bed, acute care hospital, including a 24-hour emergency room in dalton, ga. during the fiscal year ended 09/30/2024, the medical center had 42,549 patient days and 218,186 outpatient visits.…
Health
4
Columbus Community Hospital Inc
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve.
Health
5
Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital
To provide quality, compassionate and affordable healthcare services.
Health
6
Hospice Care Corporation
To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.
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7
OhioHealth Corporation
Our mission is to improve the health of those we serve.
Health
8
Cincinnati Animal Care Humane Society
We meet the immediate needs of animals in our community through individualized care, life saving solutions, and temporary shelter en-route to a safe, compatible home. we envision a community where all animals are valued, protected and have…
Animals
9
Healthsource of Ohio Inc
Healthsource of ohio is a nonprofit community health center that provides quality, patient-centered health care to underserved patients in southwest ohio.
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10
Animal Charity of Ohio Inc
The society is dedicated to promoting care for all animals. we strive to never turn away sick or injured. our goal is to bring about a world where humane societies are no longer necessary.
Animals
11
Mercymed of Columbus Inc
Mercymed of columbus, inc. (mercymed) exists to proclaim jesus christ as lord and to demonstrate his love by providing affordable, quality healthcare for the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of the underserved. as a non-profit…
Health
12
Jewish Community Center of Cincinnati
The Mayerson JCC provides cultural, social, educational and recreational programs to the Jewish Community and general community of Greater Cincinnati.
Recreation & Sports
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hamilton Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Neurofit Gym. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$343,504Human Services$30,500Recreation & Sports$30,000Animals$9,000Religion$6,000Philanthropy$1,000Health$500
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.
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.
Hamilton Community FoundationOH20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation KAREN MURRELL 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NEUROFIT GYM.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.5× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 854360258 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on NEUROFIT GYM, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Karen Murrell Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Karen Murrell Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines