· Private foundation
Murray Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $124k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VINA CAPITAL FOUNDATION | $69,000 |
| SYMPA MEALS (DANG XUAN HOP) | $55,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CHILDREN JUSTICE CENTER | $45,000 |
| VIN SON 1 ORPHANAGE | $26,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| WESTERN BUDDHIST FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| OLIVE CREST | $15,000 |
| TUONG NGUYEN USA FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| TU VIEN TAY PHUONG | $8,000 |
| PA'IA YOUTH AND CULTURAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTION OF NEW MEXICO | $5,000 |
| ONTARIO WATER CENTER | $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 US giving — 40% of grant dollars ($655k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 60% that went abroad ($968k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of your 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.
Beyond the US — 60% of all-years giving ($968k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Murray Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +109% since the first grant, against +90% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- FOFriends of Childrens Justice Center5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +109%
- OSOPERATION SMILE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $55k · revenue +26%
- OCOLIVE CREST7× · 2018–2024 · $49k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- SOSaliesian of Don Boscoone grant, 2018 · $40k
- SOSalesians of Don Brosco Vietnamone grant, 2017 · $40k
- SOSALESIENS OF DON BROSCOone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
We provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
To provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
The mission of the culver city rotary community foundation is to provide financial support on a continuing basis for local charitable organizations and to fund humanitarian projects that promote education or social welfare purposes. the…
We encourage world language professionals to participate in our endeavors by creating and maintaining a dialog within affiliates to vigorously share the clta mission and vision. (see sched o for complete mission statement)
Provide service to others promote integrity and advance world understanding goodwill and peace throught the fellowship of business professionals and comunity leaders
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The object of rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise. motto is service above self.
Save Cantonese is an international movement that sustains and celebrates Cantonese language and culture. We have three Strategic Aims: a) protect and strengthen educational and research infrastructure for the Cantonese language, b) affirm…
The mission of the koginka sewaluna foundation, inc. has been established to support, endorse and fulfill all activities and projects directed by koginka kamaru xue, for the benefit of all humanity and creation without discrimination of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Tuong Nguyen Usa Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 43 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 Friends of Childrens Justice Center ↗
- Who funds TUONG NGUYEN USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTL DISTRICT 5280 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LOPEZ ISLAND POOL ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TU VIEN BO DE ↗
- Who funds COUGAR RIDGE ELEMENTARY P T S A ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MAUI LEARNING OHANA ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Murray 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.