Ohio · Private foundation
Murdough Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $715k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Murdough Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 4 | $715k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $700k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $1.0M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $1.0M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $1.0M | 80% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $351k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Scholars Foundation | $800,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ocean Reef Chapel Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Orange Board of Education | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Congregational Church of Hudson | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northeast Ohio Foundation for Patriotism | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Two Foundation Inc Two Cafe & Boutique | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Akron Marathon Charitable Corporation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Haven of Rest Ministries Incorporated | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Scholars Foundation | $800,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ocean Reef Chapel Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Orange Board of Education | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Congregational Church of Hudson | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northeast Ohio Foundation for Patriotism | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Two Foundation Inc Two Cafe & Boutique | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Akron Marathon Charitable Corporation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Haven of Rest Ministries Incorporated | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Case Barlow Farm | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Murdough Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Harrington Family Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Swagelok Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Murdough Foundation
- How much does Murdough Foundation give?
- Murdough Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $715,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Murdough Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (53%), Recreation & Sports (21%), Education (17%).
- Who are Murdough Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jefferson Scholars Foundation ($800k), Ocean Reef Chapel Foundation Inc ($400k), Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation Inc ($20k).
- Does Murdough Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Murdough Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Murdough Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Harrington Family Foundation, Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc, The Swagelok Foundation.
- Where is Murdough Foundation based?
- Murdough Foundation is based in OH.
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