· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $338k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $337,500 |
| APPALACHIAN THEATRE OF THE HIGH COUNTRY | $100,000 |
| APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| AVERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $50,000 |
| STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE OF THE HIGH COUNTRY | $10,000 |
| CAMP FIESTA INC | $10,000 |
| ENSEMBLE STAGE | $5,000 |
| GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| FIRST LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI | $5,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| ANNES KIDS INC | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +201%
- ATAPPALACHIAN THEATRE OF THE HIGH COUNTRY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $430k · revenue +125%
- ALAUSTIN LYRIC OPERA5× · 2017–2021 · $160k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- ATAPPALACHIAN THEATREone grant, 2024 · $50k
FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +71%- TITEMPLE ISRAEL OF GREATER MIAMIone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
The mission of appalachian real estate holdings, inc. is to further the educational purposes of appalachian state university ("the university") or the charitable purposes of the appalachian state university foundation, inc.; to acquire…
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.
To further the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…
To provide quality life orchestral experiences of the world's greatest music for the enjoyment, enrichment and education of our audiences and musicians.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Provide inexpensive classical music
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,…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 NU DECO ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE HORSEMEN'S DISTRESS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE STAGE ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds WATAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Murar Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Murar Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Nu Deco Ensemble Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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