· Private foundation
The Murray Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 109 grants below total $1,834,483 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,143,653 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $309,170 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k79 grants · $232k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $428k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $675k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of Narragansett Library | $250,000 |
| Providence County Day School | $250,000 |
| EPBH Bradley Hospital Foundation | $200,000 |
| Sophia Academy | $150,000 |
| Hasbro Children's Hospital | $125,000 |
| President & Fellows of Harvard College | $100,000 |
| RI Zoological Society | $50,000 |
| CCRI Foundation | $50,000 |
| Pomfret School | $36,333 |
| Providence County Day School | $32,000 |
| Community Musicworks | $27,500 |
| St. Mary's Academy | $25,000 |
| President & Fellows of Harvard College | $25,000 |
| Meadowbrook School of Weston | $25,000 |
| Brown University | $25,000 |
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.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 81 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1000k 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
- PCProvidence County Day School2× · 2019–2022 · $540k
- HCHasbro Childrens Hospital2× · 2019–2022 · $250k
- SASophia Academy2× · 2019–2022 · $180k
Funded once
- LSLincoln Schoolone grant, 2019 · $235k
- PCProvidence Center Day Schoolone grant, 2019 · $59k
- RWRoger Williams Park Zooone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
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Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Park School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 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. 38 of the 186 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.
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- Who funds SOPHIA ACADEMY ↗
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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Frederick C Tanner Memorial Fund · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · The Beacon Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ppl 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.
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