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McMurtry Family Foundation of 2003 at a glance

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McMurtry Family Foundation of 2003

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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
75
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.4MEducation$2.1MArts & Culture$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.0MScience & Tech$836kCommunity Improvement$606kYouth Development$516kPhilanthropy$493kOther$0
02FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $119k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $326k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EXPLORATORIUM$100,000
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH$100,000
EPACENTER ARTS$100,000
BERKELEY ENGINEERING CENTER$100,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$100,000
CAREMESSAGE$100,000
CANARY FOUNDATION$100,000
COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INITIATIVE (IEEE)$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$100,000
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$100,000
STUDENTS RISING ABOVE$65,000
WILD AFRICA FOUNDATION$50,000
ABODE SERVICES$50,000
BERKELEY ENGINEERING FUND$50,000
EXPLORATORIUM STABILITY FUND$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $750 → 10%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $750 → 10%COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $750 → 10%AIM HIGH: $1k → 10%AIM HIGH: $1k → 10%AIM HIGH: $1k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $750 → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $750 → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $750 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
MO
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.7M · 66 repeat orgs$655k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against -31% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
9

Total granted

$9.7M
$369k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
-31%

Still filing today

73%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $286k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • C
    CAREMESSAGE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +213%
  • E
    EPACENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +793% · 35% of their budget
  • AS
    ABODE SERVICES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $400k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • UB
    UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $220k
  • WA
    WILD AFRICA
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • MH
    MENLO-ATHERTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -15%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
National Geographic Society

To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.

Education
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
4
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
5
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
6
California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education
7
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
8
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
9
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
10
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
11
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
12
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Live in Peace; the most unlike its peers is Aim High. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 90 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
33/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INITIATIVE (IEEE): $600,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INITIATIVE (IEEE…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $600,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYBERKELEY ENGINEERING FUND: $490,000 · OtherBERKELEY ENGINEERING FUNDUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $220,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $175,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN ANNUAL FUND: $170,000 · OtherWILDAID INC: $170,000 · OtherPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $120,000 · Other+49 more: $999,300 · Other+49 moreOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL …THE EXPLORATORIUM: $650,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EXPLORATORIUMEPACENTER: $500,000 · Arts & CultureEPACENTER+7 more: $150,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $722,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTE…CAREMESSAGE: $600,000 · EducationCAREMESSAGEEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $300,000 · EducationEASTSIDE COLLEGE PR…Rice 360 Institute for Global Health: $150,000 · EducationRice 360 Institute …+5 more: $143,600 · Education+5 moreTHE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION: $900,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CANARY FU…FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $390,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FO…+3 more: $18,600 · PhilanthropyLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $642,500 · HealthTHE BAKER INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $25,000 · Health+2 more: $12,000 · HealthInternational Rescue Committee INC: $275,000 · InternationalVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND: $150,000 · International+1 more: $9,000 · InternationalABODE SERVICES: $400,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $7,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,544,300Arts & Culture$2,800,000Education$1,916,100Philanthropy$1,308,600Health$679,500International$434,000Housing & Shelter$407,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION: $900,000 over 5y, 38% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $722,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $650,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $642,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAREMESSAGE: $600,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetEPACENTER: $500,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetABODE SERVICES: $400,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $390,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $275,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILDAID INC: $170,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND: $150,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $120,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $76,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILD AFRICA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $37,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMENLO-ATHERTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE: $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSEMPERVIRENS FUND: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAKER INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLILYPAD HOMES: $20,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOODS PROJECT: $12,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAmah Mutsun Land Trust: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetStudents Matter: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCRAG LAW CENTER: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCausa Justa Just Cause: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPlanting Justice: $6,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetELSO INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPAL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAIM HIGH: $3,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Peninsula College Fund: $3,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION: $3,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budget
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 OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗
  • Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds CAREMESSAGE ↗
  • Who funds EPACENTER ↗
  • Who funds ABODE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE ↗
  • Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
  • Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILD AFRICA ↗
  • Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds MENLO-ATHERTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds SEMPERVIRENS FUND ↗
  • Who funds MENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…Gordon E and Betty I …Tides FoundationThe Intuit FoundationThe David and Lucile …Jewish Community Fede…East Bay Community Fo…The Sobrato Family Fo…ImpactassetsincSand Hill FoundationThe Palo Alto Communi…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA31.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Sand Hill Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization McMurtry Family Foundation of 2003 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McMurtry Family Foundation of 2003. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Elso Inc: 100% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to McMurtry Family Foundation of 2003 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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