· Private foundation
The Joe Murrill Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE VAIL CHURCH | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| MINISTRY OF UNIFICATION | $25,000 |
| LEVANTA MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| PARACLETE MISSION GROUP INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| EDUTEK GLOBAL | $5,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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 The Joe Murrill Family Foundation’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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +125% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SOServants of Christ International2× · 2018–2019 · $17k · revenue +160%
HOPE INTERNATIONAL2× · 2018–2019 · $4k · revenue +125%- LPLinks Players International Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +264%
Funded once
- CSCOLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP AWARDSone grant, 2024 · $40k
- AAllegroone grant, 2019 · $35k
- GCGRACE COVENANT CHURCH INCone grant, 2022 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We seek to advance the kingdom of God. Whether it be in North America, Central and South America or Africa and Asia Pacific. Global Link Partners is training and equipping the Church to reach the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ.…
To produce and publish training materials for church leadership and development. To facilitate churches groups and individual participation in world mission.
To spread the Gospel of Jesus the Christ
World of Opportunity is an evangelical ministry that supports missionaries in the United States and around the world as they bring the Word of the Lord into peoples lives. The missionaries supported by World of Opportunity share the Gospel…
Religious
CrossTalk Global is a Christian educational organization that empowers and trains global church leaders to effectively communicate the Scriptures and share the hope of Christ in their communities. These projects are carried out in the USA…
UP Global exists to make Jesus known where He is not yet known. We provide pathways of engagement to the unreached and unengaged people in the world.
Samaritan servants international endeavors to rescue people as jesus mandated in luke 10 by ministering to people in destitute countries that have both physical and other needs for survival by offering food,water, shelter and hope through…
Our vision is to catalyze a Disciple Making Movement that will bless every church and every People, teaching others who will impact others for time and eternity.
Latin Equip's mission is to reach out to Latin America with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is accomplished through pastoral and leadership training, establishment and constructions of churches, orphanages and similar outreaches,…
Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…
World link ministries exists to serve as an "evangelistic force" by equipping and mobilizing teams of local evangelists and church planters who are effective in establishing, sustaining, and reproducing the body of christ in those parts of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Servants of Christ International and the most unlike its peers is Allegro. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 36 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LEVANTA MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Allegro ↗
- Who funds THE MINISTRY OF UNIFICATION INC DBA SF ↗
- Who funds EduTek Global ↗
- Who funds Servants of Christ International ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Nativity Academy ↗
- Who funds The 4 Eagle Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Links Players International Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKARIOS ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UPWORDS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 The Joe Murrill Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.