Texas · Private foundation
Lynne Murray Sr Educational Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $75k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 6
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $441k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Lynne Murray Sr Educational Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $75k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $67k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $52k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $46k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $49k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $54k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citizens For Animal Protection Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Houston Audubon Society | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Da Camera Society of Texas | $37,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bravo Colorado at Beaver Creek-Vail Inc Dba Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival | $28,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Healthcare for the Homeless-Houston | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dbt Center Training Institute | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| William Marsh Rice University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Christ Church Cathedral | $7,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Hermann Park Conservancy | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lynne Murray Sr Educational Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Lynne Murray Sr Educational Foundation
- How much does Lynne Murray Sr Educational Foundation give?
- Lynne Murray Sr Educational Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $74,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lynne Murray Sr Educational Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (56%), Arts & Culture (23%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Lynne Murray Sr Educational Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Citizens For Animal Protection Inc ($150k), The Houston Audubon Society ($40k), Da Camera Society of Texas ($37k).
- Does Lynne Murray Sr Educational Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lynne Murray Sr Educational Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lynne Murray Sr Educational Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Lynne Murray Sr Educational Foundation based?
- Lynne Murray Sr Educational Foundation is based in TX.
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