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Patrick Murray and Louise E Murray Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Patrick Murray and Louise E Murray Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$69k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0171% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$88kArts & Culture$74kYouth Development$31kHousing & Shelter$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kHuman Services$16kReligion$6kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$250k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE$25,000
DARLIN FARMS$18,708
Individual grant recipient$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$5,005
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DRS WITHOUT BORDERS: $500 → 17%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $5k → 11%ERIE METROPARKS: $10k → 11%HASSELBACH MEATS: $4k → 12%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $5k → 13%DARLIN FARMS: $19k → 13%FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 11%DARLIN FARMS: $18k → 13%FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $8k → 11%DAVLIN FARMS: $16k → 13%FIRELANDS SYMPHONY: $5k → 11%DAVLIN FARMS: $16k → 13%FIRELANDS SYMPHONY: $5k → 11%DAVLIN FARMS: $14k → 13%FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $4k → 11%CITY OF HURON: $3k → 11%KINSHIP HOUSE: $1k → 11%MILAN HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $3k → 11%VICTORY KITCHEN: $29k → 11%SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE: $25k → 11%VICTORY KITCHEN: $15k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $10k → 11%SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE: $10k → 11%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA CROSSROADS: $10k → 11%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 11%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 11%SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE: $10k → 11%CROSS ROADS VOA: $10k → 11%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA: $10k → 11%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA: $10k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $10k → 11%VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA: $6k → 11%VICTORY KITCHEN: $5k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF ERIE CO: $5k → 11%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 11%BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF ERIE COUNTY: $5k → 11%CARE AND SHARE: $5k → 11%FIRELANDS HABITAT: $5k → 11%SANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%FIRELANDS HABITAT: $5k → 11%SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE: $5k → 11%VICTORY KITCHEN: $2k → 11%ST PETER ANNAUL FUND: $1k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $500 → 11%FATHER'S HEART OUTREACH: $500 → 11%OH GO: $500 → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$317k · 11 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +224% since the first grant, against -41% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$317k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+224%
-41%

Still filing today

18%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsInternationalPublic BenefitEducationOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2021–2024 · $51k
  • SS
    SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +224%
  • DF
    DAVLIN FARMS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $46k

Funded once

  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA CROSSROADS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • BG
    BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF ERIE COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $51,330 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDAVLIN FARMS: $46,032 · OtherDAVLIN FARMSDARLIN FARMS: $37,204 · OtherDARLIN FARMSHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $30,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA: $26,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $25,505 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBFIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $21,000 · OtherFIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA+16 more: $85,022 · Other+16 moreSANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSANDUSKY STATE …MILAN HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureHUMANE SOCIETY OF ERIE COUNTY: $5,000 · AnimalsSANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationOH-GO: $500 · Public BenefitSave The Children Federation Inc: $300 · International
Other$322,093Arts & Culture$52,500Animals$5,000Education$5,000Public Benefit$500International$300

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 budgetSANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC: $50,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $21,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF ERIE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMILAN HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOH-GO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $300 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.

  • Who funds SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SANDUSKY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILAN HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds OH-GO ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation 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.

The Mylander Fdn-2001Sidney Frohman Founda…The Michelle Wightman…The Albert G & Olive …Erie County Community…American Endowment Fo…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Mylander Fdn-2001OH17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Mylander Fdn-2001 · Sidney Frohman Foundation · The Michelle Wightman-Karrie Wieber Charitable Foundation · The Albert G & Olive H Schlink Foundation · Erie County Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Patrick Murray and Louise E Murray Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patrick Murray and Louise E Murray Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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.

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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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