· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VINA CAPITAL FOUNDATION | $91,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $47,597 |
| SYMPA MEALS (DANG XUAN HOP) | $45,000 |
| LOPEZ LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| VIN SON 1 ORPHANAGE | $25,000 |
| MANHATTAN BEACH ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| TU BIEN BO DE | $20,000 |
| TUONG NGUYEN USA FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CHILDREN JUSTICE CENTER | $10,500 |
| THE FRIENDS OF LOPEZ ISLAND POOL (FLIP) | $10,000 |
| CATHERINE WASHBURN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| WESTERN BUDDHIST FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| BCH CONG DOAN CTY TNHH CONG | $6,000 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTION OF NEW MEXICO | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 60% of all-years giving ($968k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Murray Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFriends of Childrens Justice Center6× · 2020–2025 · $161k · revenue +109%
- OSOPERATION SMILE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $55k · revenue +26%
- OCOLIVE CREST7× · 2018–2024 · $49k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- SOSalesians of Don Brosco Vietnamone grant, 2017 · $40k
- SOSaliesian of Don Boscoone grant, 2018 · $40k
- SOSALESIENS OF DON BROSCOone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
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.
To provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
We provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
Provide service to others promote integrity and advance world understanding goodwill and peace throught the fellowship of business professionals and comunity leaders
The object of rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise. motto is service above self.
The primary purpose of the la mesa sunrise rotary club foundation is to raise funds to use in charitable purposes. local and international projects. often associated with the activities of the la mesa sunrise rotary club.
The purpose of the foundation is to support the local and international communities through donations to educational, community and international charities.
The mission of the rotary club of lahaina sunset is to enhance the quality of life in west maui and beyond by engaging in meaningful and achievable projects within the rotary's avenues of service. within community service, we have chosen…
Assist local charitable organizations, including ymca, boys & girls club, scholarships, and many other community projects.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 FRIENDS OF LOPEZ ISLAND POOL ↗
- Who funds Catherine Washburn Medical Association ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTL DISTRICT 5280 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Murray Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Murray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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