North Carolina · Private foundation
Murar Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $590k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $337,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Murar Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $590k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $500k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $487k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $339k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $494k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $360k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $500k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $696k | 11% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian State University Foundation Inc | $2,535,500 | 9 | 2% |
| Appalachian Theatre of the High Country Inc | $430,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Avery County Humane Society Inc | $230,000 | 6 | 18% |
| Austin Lyric Opera | $160,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Appalachian Regional Healthcare Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Temple of the High Country | $138,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Stuttering Association for the Young Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Camp Fiesta Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 55% |
| Reflections Series Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 35% |
| Lees-McRae College Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($145k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Murar Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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
How this is measured
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About Murar Foundation Inc
- How much does Murar Foundation Inc give?
- Murar Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $590,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Murar Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Arts & Culture (21%), Animals (5%).
- Who are Murar Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Appalachian State University Foundation Inc ($2.5M), Appalachian Theatre of the High Country Inc ($430k), Avery County Humane Society Inc ($230k).
- Does Murar Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Murar Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Murar Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, The Bessemer Giving Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Murar Foundation Inc based?
- Murar Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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