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Sam and Gail Murdough Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17k
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
8
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 31
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Sam and Gail Murdough Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20208$17k0%
FY201928$76k0%
FY201831$102k3%
FY201730$65kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Health$66kPublic Benefit$61kReligion$38kPhilanthropy$32kEducation$31kEnvironment$30kHousing & Shelter$10kArts & Culture$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($132k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sam and Gail Murdough Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCapital Research Center: $31,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSquam Lakes Natural Science Center: $15,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCardigan Mountain School: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hope for Families Center Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSquam Lakes Association: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Learning Center Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnited South End Settlements: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRiverside Theatre Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIndian River Land Trust Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConcord Hospital Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGranite United Way: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation · Mathieson Family Foundation · The Schifrin Foundation Inc · The Orchard Foundation · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · Tosa Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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.

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About Sam and Gail Murdough Family Foundation Inc

How much does Sam and Gail Murdough Family Foundation Inc give?
Sam and Gail Murdough Family Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $16,852 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Sam and Gail Murdough Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Health (23%), Public Benefit (21%), Religion (13%).
Who are Sam and Gail Murdough Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Capital Research Center ($31k), Judicial Watch Inc ($28k), Squam Lakes Natural Science Center ($16k).
Does Sam and Gail Murdough Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sam and Gail Murdough Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sam and Gail Murdough Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation.
Where is Sam and Gail Murdough Family Foundation Inc based?
Sam and Gail Murdough Family Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 33 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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