· Private foundation
Murrill Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW RODEO | $24,000 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT | $6,000 |
| UNC-OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMEN | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN SMOKE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS | $4,000 |
| NC CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE | $2,575 |
| INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $2,500 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| TRINITY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| NCVMF NCSU VETERINARY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SALEM COLLEGE FUND | $500 |
| THE V FOUNDATION | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 10 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC2× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +198%- DADURHAM ACADEMY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +16%
- ISINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- RURICE UNIVERSITY-OWL CLUB ATHLETIC Fone grant, 2022 · $6k
- NNNCVMR NCSU Veterinary Foundationone grant, 2020 · $1k
- RURICE UNIVERSITY - OWL CLUBone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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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 38 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 HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds USO OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Southern Smoke Foundation ↗
- Who funds Trinity School Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Murrill Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Murrill Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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