· Private foundation
The Mary Murrill Oakes Family Private 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $26,694 |
| WINGATE UNIV HUGH MURRILL SCHOLARSH | $8,000 |
| WINGATE UNIV IRENE B MURRILL SCHOLA | $8,000 |
| CCNC FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| EMMANUAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,000 |
| ST PAULS EISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LA | $1,500 |
| SALEM COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| THE LATIN FUND AT CHARLOTTE | $1,500 |
| CHATHAM HALL | $1,500 |
| PRATT INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| DUKE 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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 13% 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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- WUWINGATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $62k · revenue +18%
- SASALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +14%
- PIPRATT INSTITUTE6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- HCHUGH C MURRILL SCHOLARSHIP WINGATEone grant, 2024 · $6k
- IBIRENE BOWIE MURRILL SCHOLARSHIP WINone grant, 2024 · $6k
- SPST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Catawba college is committed to providing students an education rich in personal attention that blends the knowledge and competencies of liberal studies with career preparation. catawba college draws strength from judeo-christian values,…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
North carolina wesleyan university, a private institution affiliated with the united methodist church, prepares students for professional advancement, life-long learning, and responsible participation in their communities.
To provide an enriching and challenging curriculum and educational community which encourages students to be life-long learners, develop strong character, serve their community, and deepen their faith.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salem Academy and College and the most unlike its peers is Healing the Children - Florida Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 46 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 WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM HALL ↗
- Who funds Village Heritage Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALING THE CHILDREN - FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC INC ↗
- Who funds STARWORKS ↗
- Who funds Arts Council of Moore County ↗
- Who funds FRIEND TO FRIEND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WEYMOUTH 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: Ibm International Foundation · Stan and Jean Bradshaw Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Gordy-Steidinger Foundation · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Mary Murrill Oakes Family Private 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.