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Murar Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $255,000 |
| AVERY HUMANE SOCIETY | $125,000 |
| APPALACHIAN THEATRE | $50,000 |
| APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG | $10,000 |
| CAMP FIESTA INC | $10,000 |
| ENSEMBLE STAGE | $5,000 |
| FIRST LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI INC | $5,000 |
| GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +201%
- ATAPPALACHIAN THEATRE OF THE HIGH COUNTRY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $330k · revenue +125%
- ALAUSTIN LYRIC OPERA5× · 2017–2021 · $160k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TITEMPLE ISRAEL OF GREATER MIAMIone grant, 2017 · $10k
FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +71%- WHWATAUGA HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -11%
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.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
The auburn civic symphony provides opportunities for foothill area musicians, composers, and audiences to share enriching musical experiences.
The woodruff arts center's mission is to inspire, create, support, and celebrate renowned arts and education for diverse audiences through a unique model of partnerships and collaborations, and in an institutionally sustainable manner.
The lake placid sinfonietta, the adirondacks orchestra of world class musicians, unleashes the power of music to entertain, educate and inspire people of all ages.
To continue the tradition of excellence in musical entertainment and education, while enriching the cultural experience of audiences of all ages throughout northeast tennessee and southwest virginia and points beyond.
Anderson symphony orchestra enriches lives through beautiful music of high artistic quality and provides experiences that excite, entertain,engage, and educate our community. we are committed to offering the community a diverse repertoire…
To provide quality life orchestral experiences of the world's greatest music for the enjoyment, enrichment and education of our audiences and musicians.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Opera saratoga's innovative world class performances and programs inspire, educate, and heal audiences and artists through the power of the human voice.
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Appalachian State University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Therapy Pet Pals of Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 29 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
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 APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN THEATRE OF THE HIGH COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds AVERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIESTA INC ↗
- Who funds REFLECTIONS SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds RED ARENA INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds NU DECO ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HORSEMEN'S DISTRESS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds WATAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE STAGE ↗
- Who funds FIRST LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Murar Foundation Inc 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.
- Nu Deco Ensemble Inc — 1% 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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