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LT Murray Family 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.

$380k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$712kEducation$394kHealth$344kHuman Services$229kPhilanthropy$149kYouth Development$95kFood & Nutrition$79kEnvironment$69kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $181k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TACOMA ART MUSEUM TACOMA WA$75,000
MARY BRIDGE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$75,000
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$30,000
COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM INC$25,000
HELEN B MURRAY ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION$22,500
DEGREES OF CHANGE$13,000
PEDIATRIC INTERIM CARE CENTER INC$10,000
SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER OF PIERCE COUNTY$10,000
NOURISH PIERCE COUNTY$10,000
STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER$10,000
ASIA PACIFIC CULTURAL CENTER$10,000
GRAND TACOMA CINE CLUB$10,000
COMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF TACOMA PIERC$10,000
GOODWILL OF THE OLYMPICS AND RAINIER REGION$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–24, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAVE OUR ALLIES: $3k → 6%CANCER PATHWAYS: $5k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KIT: $25k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KIT: $15k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $3k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $3k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $3k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $3k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $3k → 9%AMARA: $8k → 9%THE HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $4k → 9%WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%HOPESPARKS: $10k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $3k → 9%WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%LARCHE TAHOMA HOPE COMMUNITY: $25k → 9%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
UT
MD
AZ
TN
NC
LA
TX

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 — 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 51 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
35

Total granted

$1.9M
$214k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+14%

Still filing today

94%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM
    4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +5%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $125k · revenue +7%
  • HB
    HELEN B MURRAY ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $113k · revenue +271% · 54% of their budget

Funded once

  • MF
    MULTICARE FOUNDATIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +59%
  • LT
    L'ARCHE TAHOMA HOPE COMMUNITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • TC
    Tacoma Community House
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -3%

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.

1
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
2
Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter
3
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
4
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
5
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
6
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

—
7
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound

To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.

Philanthropy
8
North Olympic Healthcare Network

To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.

Health
9
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
10
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
11
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
12
Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cause for Sb Paws. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyArts and Culture Organizati…Healthcare Providers and Di…Social Impact Innovation Or…Community Sports and Recrea…Affordable Housing & Suppor…Early Childhood Education C…Family Philanthropic Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr15%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr18%11%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr15%47%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/89
the rest of the field
12%
4,745/38,879

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.

04the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 94 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/86
Grantees still filing
52/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Tacoma Art Museum — $300,000 · Arts & CultureTacoma Art MuseumCOLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM — $150,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUMPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $80,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART MUSEUMTACOMA ARTS LIVE — $72,500 · Arts & CultureTACOMA ARTS LIVEGREENTRIKE — $65,000 · Arts & CultureGREENTRIKESYMPHONY TACOMA — $41,500 · Arts & CultureSYMPHONY TACOMA+7 more — $65,713 · Arts & Culture+7 moreHELEN B MURRAY ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION — $112,500 · OtherHELEN B MURRAY ONCOLOGY FOUNDATIO…ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS — $66,666 · OtherANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLSYWCA PIERCE COUNTY — $55,000 · OtherYWCA PIERCE COUNTYGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation — $33,250 · OtherTRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $30,000 · OtherNourish Pierce County — $30,000 · OtherNorthwest Outward Bound School — $28,225 · OtherLa Casa de las Madres — $25,000 · OtherROSE HAVEN CIC — $25,000 · OtherGoodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region — $30,000 · OtherEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $23,750 · Other+33 more — $217,771 · Other+33 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $125,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …DEGREES OF CHANGE — $65,000 · EducationDEGREES OF CHA…HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL — $45,000 · EducationHAMLIN ROBINSO…FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS — $30,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR…RAINIER SCHOLARS — $25,000 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLA…+1 more — $2,500 · EducationYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES — $40,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN…L'ARCHE TAHOMA HOPE COMMUNITY — $25,000 · Human ServicesL'ARCHE T…Tacoma Community House — $25,000 · Human ServicesTacoma Co…NW FURNITURE BANK — $21,000 · Human ServicesNW FURNIT…FUSION-FRIENDS UNITED TO SHELTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesFUSION-FR…WISHING WELL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK — $10,000 · Human ServicesHopeSparks — $10,000 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesAMARA — $7,500 · Human Services+4 more — $15,000 · Human Services+4 moreMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $75,000 · HealthPediatric Interim Care Center — $50,000 · HealthMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $30,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE — $7,500 · Health+3 more — $11,750 · HealthGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $107,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY — $32,500 · PhilanthropyEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $3,500 · PhilanthropyFriends of Lakewood — $30,000 · EnvironmentTAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE — $10,000 · EnvironmentTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $2,500 · Environment+1 more — $500 · Environment
Arts & Culture$774,713Other$677,162Education$292,500Human Services$188,500Health$174,250Philanthropy$148,500Environment$48,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTacoma Art Museum — $300,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetCOLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM — $150,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN B MURRAY ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION — $112,500 over 6y, 54% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $107,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTACOMA ARTS LIVE — $72,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS — $66,666 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENTRIKE — $65,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDEGREES OF CHANGE — $65,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetYWCA PIERCE COUNTY — $55,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPediatric Interim Care Center — $50,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSYMPHONY TACOMA — $41,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation — $33,250 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY — $32,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGoodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Lakewood — $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNourish Pierce County — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS — $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwest Outward Bound School — $28,225 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetL'ARCHE TAHOMA HOPE COMMUNITY — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTacoma Community House — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLa Casa de las Madres — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $23,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNW FURNITURE BANK — $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRebuilding Hope Sexual Assault Center — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND TACOMA CINE CLUB DBA THE GRAND CINEMA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW PHOEBE HOUSE — $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFUSION-FRIENDS UNITED TO SHELTER — $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBATES TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAsia Pacific Cultural Center — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LAKEWOOD INC — $12,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $10,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWISHING WELL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHopeSparks — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAHOMA BIRD ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALEO VOCATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

The Bamford FoundationGreater Tacoma Commun…The Norcliffe Foundat…Kilworth Florence Cha…Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiForest FoundationWoodworth Family Foun…Sequoia FoundationHeidner Marco J Char …Ben B Cheney Foundati…Korum for Kids Founda…Puget Sound Energy Fo…
The Bamford FoundationWA75.1× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bamford Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Forest Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Korum for Kids Foundation · Puget Sound Energy 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 organization LT Murray Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Columbia River Maritime Museum — 3% of income from government
  • Justice Dance Performance Project Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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: 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 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to LT Murray Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to LT Murray Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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