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.

Murray Charitable Trust

Murray Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$750

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$7kEducation$6kArts & Culture$6kCivil Rights$4kHealth$4kAnimals$3kCrime & Legal$3kInternational$2kOther$0

02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100

Median grant

States reached

$103k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Maine Gun Safety Coalition	$750
Williston Immanuel Church	$510
Greater Portland Landmarks	$500
Scholarhips for Maine Immigrants	$500
Milestone Foundation	$500
Landing Schoo of Boatbuilding	$500
Animal Refuge League of Portland	$450
Paw in the Door	$400
United Way of Southern Maine	$350
Hope For Youth and Families	$350
Partners for World Health	$300
University of SOuthern Maine Founda	$300
Individual grant recipient	$250
Maineshare	$250
Campaign forJustice	$250

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$34k · 65 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$34k

$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+13%

Still filing today

68%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

MR
MILESTONE RECOVERY
4× · 2021–2024 · $1k · revenue +133%
HA
Hope Acts
4× · 2021–2024 · $650 · revenue +254%
TG
The Girls Foundation of Tanzania
3× · 2021–2024 · $550 · revenue +89%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $1k
FF
Friends fo Portland Adult Education
one grant, 2022 · $1k
CO
City of Portland
one grant, 2023 · $500

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation

Environment

Maine Media College

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…

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Wetlands Foundation

Environment

Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

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…

Arts & Culture

Maine Donor Alliance Fund

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,…

Education

Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture

Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports

Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment

Maine Philanthropy Center

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…

Education

Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

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.

Human Services

Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy

Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; 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.

04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

71/73

Grantees still filing

44/73

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$36,368Arts & Culture$3,157Philanthropy$2,700Human Services$2,475Health$2,450Animals$1,400Education$1,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME83.3× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Murray Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Murray Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home