Maine · Private foundation
Murray Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $11k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2024
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $750
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 74
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $103k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Murray Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 68 | $11k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $16k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $15k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $7k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portland ESL Scholarship Fund | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Milestone Recovery | $1,350 | 4 | 0% |
| Schools for Refugees | $1,200 | 3 | n/a |
| Maine Share | $900 | 4 | 0% |
| Greater Portland Landmarks Inc | $800 | 3 | 0% |
| Hope Acts | $650 | 4 | 0% |
| Partners for World Health | $600 | 3 | 0% |
| A Paw in the Door | $600 | 2 | 0% |
| The Girls Foundation of Tanzania | $550 | 3 | 0% |
| City of Portland | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Murray Charitable Trust 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Kestrel Foundation of Maine · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Libra Foundation · The Apple Lane Foundation Inc 14101830 · John T Gorman Foundation · United Way Inc · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Murray Charitable Trust
- How much does Murray Charitable Trust give?
- Murray Charitable Trust reported 68 grants totaling $11,488 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 74 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Murray Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (15%), Education (12%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Murray Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Portland ESL Scholarship Fund ($2k), Milestone Recovery ($1k), Schools for Refugees ($1k).
- Does Murray Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Murray Charitable Trust 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 Murray Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Sam L Cohen Foundation, Kestrel Foundation of Maine.
- Where is Murray Charitable Trust based?
- Murray Charitable Trust is based in ME.
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