Washington · Private foundation
Murray 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.
- $363k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $91,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Murray Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $363k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $333k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $301k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $264k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $221k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $222k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $151k | 88% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $63k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Childrens Justice Center | $160,500 | 6 | 9% |
| University of Washington | $82,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Tuong Nguyen USA Foundation | $71,500 | 6 | 27% |
| Operation Smile Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Olive Crest | $48,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Corporation of Gonzaga University | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Western Buddhist Foundation | $24,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of Lopez Island Pool | $15,695 | 5 | 0% |
| Catherine Washburn Medical Association | $10,260 | 3 | 0% |
| Animal Protection New Mexico | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Childrens Justice Center | $160,500 | 6 | 9% |
| University of Washington | $82,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Tuong Nguyen USA Foundation | $71,500 | 6 | 27% |
| Operation Smile Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Olive Crest | $48,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Corporation of Gonzaga University | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Western Buddhist Foundation | $24,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of Lopez Island Pool | $15,695 | 5 | 0% |
| Catherine Washburn Medical Association | $10,260 | 3 | 0% |
| Animal Protection New Mexico | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rotary Club of Sacramento Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Rotary Intl District 5280 Charitable Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 8% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $5,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Tu Vien Bo De | $1,680 | 2 | 2% |
| South Maui Learning Ohana | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sunrise Rotary Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cougar Ridge Elementary P T S A | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Murray Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Murray Foundation
- How much does Murray Foundation give?
- Murray Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $363,377 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Murray Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (25%), Human Services (14%), Health (14%).
- Who are Murray Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of Childrens Justice Center ($161k), University of Washington ($82k), Tuong Nguyen USA Foundation ($72k).
- Does Murray Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Murray Foundation 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Murray Foundation based?
- Murray Foundation is based in WA.
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