· Private foundation
M J Murdock Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k225 grants · $6.6M
- $50k–250k407 grants · $46M
- $250k+154 grants · $64M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST | $1,548,170 |
| FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT | $1,000,000 |
| COOK INLET TRIBAL COUNCIL INC | $1,000,000 |
| NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| LATINO NETWORK | $1,000,000 |
| THE VERITAS FORUM INC | $800,000 |
| CARROLL COLLEGE | $800,000 |
| THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO | $750,000 |
| LARCHE FOUNDATION OF GREATER VANCOUVER | $750,000 |
| HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC | $750,000 |
| KCTS TELEVISION | $750,000 |
| GENEROUS GIVING INC | $700,000 |
| GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY | $700,000 |
| REID SAUNDERS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION | $700,000 |
| SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE | $650,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $27.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
831 repeat relationships — 471 still active in FY2024, 360 since wound down; 234 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SCSEATTLE CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $15M · revenue +12%
- YLYOUNG LIFE5× · 2020–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +62%
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +42%
Funded once
- DLDE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- BABEAVERTON ARTS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +196% · 52% of their budget
- SLSKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $725k · revenue +38%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
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.
To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.
The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington and the most unlike its peers is Safe Harbor Broadcasting. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1281 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. 1281 of the 1,550 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds SEATTLE CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENEROUS GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Community Services Northwest ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERITAS FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Pacific Lutheran University ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Cook Inlet Tribal Council ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MONTANA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VINE MAPLE PLACE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH 71FIVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Norcliffe Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Collins Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · James F & Marion L Miller 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 M J Murdock Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Artists Repertory Theatre — 48% of income from government
- Mental Health Association of Oregon — 41% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Parrott Creek Child and Family Services — 20% of income from government
- The Freshwater Trust — 17% of income from government
- Youth 71FIVE Ministries — 16% of income from government
- Farmers Conservation Alliance — 15% of income from government
- Latino Network — 15% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center — 11% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- La Clinica Del Valle Family Health Care Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association — 7% of income from government
- Nonprofit Association of Oregon — 6% of income from government
- Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
- The Contingent — 5% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
- Columbia River Maritime Museum — 3% of income from government
- Corban University — 3% of income from government
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
- Trillium Family Services — 2% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Sky Lakes Medical Center — 2% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- University of Portland — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette — 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Santiam Memorial Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Beaverton Arts Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Grande Ronde Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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