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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$25,000
BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE$25,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER$20,000
NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE$20,000
GREENS FARM ACADEMY$10,000
FIRST DESCENTS$10,000
STUART COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION$7,000
BRIGHT FOCUS FOUNDATION$5,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,000
PRINCETON NATIONAL ROWING ASSOCIATI$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
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

NH
WA
MT
MN
NY
NJ
CT
RI
CO
VA
MD
NC
GA
FL
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.
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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 Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Murray Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+20%
+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
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

  • 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 +20%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +33%
  • HS
    HOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +84%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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.

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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa General Hospital Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherGREENS FARM ACADEMY: $20,000 · OtherTHE WHITE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ST MARY'S IN THE MOUNTAINS: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMAYO CLINIC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE WHITE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ST MARY'S IN THE MOUNTAINS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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
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.

Seattle FoundationNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Murray Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • American Whitewater: 5% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% 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, 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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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