· Private foundation
Karen Murrell 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $35,569 |
| BADIN HIGH SCHOOL | $16,662 |
| ROGER BACON HIGH SCHOOL | $10,500 |
| GOOD SAMARATIN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NEUROFIT GYM | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FENWICK HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| QUEEN OF PEACE | $3,000 |
| CARING CLOSET | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| JOE NUXHALL GOLF OUTING | $1,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ANIMAL ADOPTION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
| UNITED OH FC OUTING | $380 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NGNEUROFIT GYM INC4× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +168%
- AAANIMAL ADOPTION FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +99%
- OHOHIO HISPANIC COALITION3× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CCISEone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -68%
- SMSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +68%
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.
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
Harrison medical center foundation is a not-for-profit organization that raises and manages charitable gifts for the benefit of harrison medical center. as a friend of the hospital, the foundation's purpose is to make a positive difference…
The mission of the american college of veterinary internal medicine (acvim) is to enhance animal and human health by advancing veterinary internal medicine through training, education, an discovery. the acvim is the american certifying…
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
The hospice of miami county, inc. is committed to making quality hospice care available and accessible to terminally ill persons and their families, regardless of ability pay, and in a manner consistent with the highest hospice standards.…
Acute care hospital facility delivering quality services to our patients and the communities we serve.
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 43 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 NEUROFIT GYM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARING CLOSET ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ADOPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISPANIC COALITION ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Karen Murrell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karen Murrell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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