· Private foundation
Murdough Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| AKRON CHILDEN'S HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF HUDSON | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- JSJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $800k · revenue +94%
- OROCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +226%
- TKThe Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- UHUNIVERSITY HOSPITALSone grant, 2020 · $20k
- OROCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +57%
- OBORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
Inspiring innovation and cultivating investment in ohio's farm and food community.
To promote and enhance responsible and effective philanthropy for members of the ocean reef community.
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
The United Way Foundation of the Capital Region (the Foundation) was established with the purpose of supporting the mission of the United Way by soliciting, investing and maintaining funds designated by the board or donors to function as…
To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…
The oakland chamber of commerce foundation carries out charitble work to benefit the greater oakland community.
Assist Wilson Medical Center in its mission of promoting, improving, and restoring health.
Nancy Owens Breast Cancer Foundation provides funding to public charities that support education, care, and research to find a cure for breast cancer while memorializing Nancy Owens' life, the values she lived by, and the courage with…
Promoting excellence in patient care and outcomes in trauma and musculoskeletal disorders by:- improving performance through education- optimizing clinical treatment pathways and guidelines- promoting innovation though research and…
General charitable, philanthropic, and eduational purposes within the attendance of hudson area schools.
To promote the common good and general welfare of the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hudson Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Case Barlow Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO FOUNDATION FOR PATRIOTISM ↗
- Who funds HUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE ↗
- Who funds The Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE AKRON MARATHON CHARITABLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CASE BARLOW FARM ↗
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: 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
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 Murdough Foundation 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.
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.