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Murray Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$522kEducation$263kEnvironment$103kRecreation & Sports$76kHousing & Shelter$5kEmployment$5kArts & Culture$2kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE$50,000
BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE$25,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$25,000
NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE$20,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER$20,000
FIRST DESCENTS$10,000
STUART COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$10,000
GREENS FARM ACADEMY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION$7,000
BRIGHT FOCUS FOUNDATION$5,000
PRINCETON NATIONAL ROWING ASSOCIATI$5,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LEARNING ALLY: $10k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $5k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
WA
MT
MN
NY
NJ
CT
RI
CO
VA
MD
NC
GA
FL

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.

04

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 Inc’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.

Murray Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.7% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$729k · 17 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
15

Total granted

$729k
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+54%

Still filing today

59%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • CR
    CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $170k · revenue +5%
  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +8%
  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +33%
  • HS
    HOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +84%
  • BP
    BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITURE - UNIV OF MIAMI MILLER SCH OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

1
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
5
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa General Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greenwich Hospital. 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 54 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%60%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,541

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.

05the grantee network

23 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE — $75,000 · OtherBASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTESTUART COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $72,500 · OtherSTUART COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLBASCOLM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE — $65,000 · OtherBASCOLM PALMER EYE INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient — $36,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $35,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYNATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE — $20,000 · OtherTHE WHITE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ST MARY'S IN THE MOUNTAINS — $20,000 · OtherGREENS FARM ACADEMY — $20,000 · OtherNORWALK RIVER VALLEY TRAIL — $18,000 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · Other+10 more — $24,000 · Other+10 moreCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $170,000 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCJupiter Medical Center Inc — $65,000 · HealthJupiter Medical Center IncMAYO CLINIC — $20,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC — $12,000 · Health+3 more — $15,000 · HealthTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELL…THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSIT…THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFIRST DESCENTS — $33,500 · Recreation & SportsPRINCETON NATIONAL ROWING ASSOCIATION — $24,500 · Recreation & SportsHOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · EnvironmentAmerican Whitewater — $1,000 · EnvironmentLearning Ally Inc — $20,000 · Human Services
Other$401,000Health$282,000Education$115,000Public Safety & Disaster$75,000Recreation & Sports$58,000Environment$27,000Human Services$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $170,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc — $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS — $33,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPRINCETON NATIONAL ROWING ASSOCIATION — $24,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLearning Ally Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WHITE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ST MARY'S IN THE MOUNTAINS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Whitewater — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • American Whitewater5% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc4% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc2% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Murray Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Murray Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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