· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Maine Gun Safety Coalition | $750 |
| Williston Immanuel Church | $510 |
| Greater Portland Landmarks | $500 |
| Landing Schoo of Boatbuilding | $500 |
| Milestone Foundation | $500 |
| Scholarhips for Maine Immigrants | $500 |
| Animal Refuge League of Portland | $450 |
| Paw in the Door | $400 |
| Hope For Youth and Families | $350 |
| United Way of Southern Maine | $350 |
| Partners for World Health | $300 |
| University of SOuthern Maine Founda | $300 |
| Girls Foundation of Tanzania | $250 |
| Maine State Society for Protection | $250 |
| Campaign forJustice | $250 |
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 (FY21–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +18% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MRMILESTONE RECOVERY4× · 2021–2024 · $1k · revenue +133%
- HAHope Acts4× · 2021–2024 · $650 · revenue +254%
- TGThe Girls Foundation of Tanzania3× · 2021–2024 · $550 · revenue +89%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
- FFFriends fo Portland Adult Educationone grant, 2022 · $1k
- COCity of Portlandone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
The Maine Philanthropy Center (MPC) is the state's leading resource that provides opportunity, leadership and support to advance the effectiveness of philanthropy in Maine and its ability to make a meaningful difference. It helps grant…
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Portland Esl Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
73 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. 73 of the 153 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 Portland ESL Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds MILESTONE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds MAINE SHARE ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Acts ↗
- Who funds Partners for World Health ↗
- Who funds A PAW IN THE DOOR ↗
- Who funds The Girls Foundation of Tanzania ↗
- Who funds Maine Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds Family Ice Center ↗
- Who funds MAINE JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PORTLAND ADULT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Locker Project ↗
- Who funds MAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds Portland Parks Conservancy ↗
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: 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
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 Murray Charitable Trust 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wilbraham and Monson Academy — 0% of income from government
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.