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Murlan Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL VIRGINIA CHILDREN'S WELLNESS INITIATIVE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $20,237 |
| ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY | $20,000 |
| STEPPING STONE | $20,000 |
| ST ANNE'S - BELFIELD SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| THE PARAMOUNT THEATER | $19,819 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $15,278 |
| LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO | $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 (FY18–22, $441k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +88% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- RIREADYKIDS INC5× · 2018–2022 · $436k · revenue +0%
- SAST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +20%
- VIVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC4× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +161%
Funded once
FRACTURED ATLAS INCone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue +16%- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHSEWANEEone grant, 2018 · $20k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +40%
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.
Our approach to a holistic Waldorf education lays the foundation for a life full of meaning and purpose. (See 4a)
The mission of st. joseph's villa is to provide children with special needs and their families the opportunity to succeed through effective and innovative programs.
The mission of the historic nonprofit paramount theater is to educate, enchant, enrich, and enlighten through the power of the arts by providing high-quality programming and accessibility for the artistic and charitable benefit of our…
The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
The mission of st. vincent's home is to meet the needs of individuals with unique learning challenges across the lifespan. this includes supporting the family. the programs associated with st. vincent's home including the blue ridge autism…
Family involvement in the Pinecrest educational experience, low student-teacher ratios, caring and committed teachers, and a cohesive school community combined with a rigorous educational program to foster the development in students of…
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
Encircle's mission is to express god's love by providing services and assistance to empower communities, families, and individuals in their journey to well-being. our goal is to make the world a more loving place.
To help people reach their full potential through a rewarding career, meaningful relationships, and an enriching community life. Via creates pathways to success through vocation, inclusion, and advocacy.
We create opportunities for discovery and reflection by engaging the minds, hands, and hearts of our students.
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Readykids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kindness Cville. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 17 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 READYKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINTOP MONTESSORI ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Kindness Cville ↗
- Who funds LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO 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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · The Rimora Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Edmonds Family Foundation · The Hilltop Foundation · Quantitative Foundation · Leaw Family Foundation Inc · The J & E Berkley 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 Murlan 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.
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