· Private foundation
The Murray 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $316k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARIZONA LEGAL WOMEN AND YOUTH SERVICES | $45,000 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FDN INC | $35,862 |
| ST MARYS FOOD BANK ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| WATER ORG INC | $25,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $24,930 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC | $20,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $20,000 |
| CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $15,000 |
| GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY PROJECT | $15,000 |
| CASA CORNELIA LEGAL SERVICES | $10,000 |
| BELLINGCAT FUND | $10,000 |
| JACKSON HOUSE CRISIS INTERVENTION | $10,000 |
| TALLER SALUD INC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 11 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k 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
- BFBRAZIL FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $114k · revenue +95%
- NANORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $107k · revenue +184%
- WWATERORG8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $200k
- OWOne World Childrens Fundone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -52%
- LILocal Independent Online News Publishers Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +71%
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.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
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Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Adrian Schools Education Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
154 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 154 of the 174 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 BRAZIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds One World Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARING PLACE OF HOT SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Legal Women and Youth Services ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS ↗
- Who funds ADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA BRAZIL INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Mankind Project ↗
- Who funds BAY ISLANDS COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WHEN WE ALL VOTE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIVISIBLE CIVICS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIEQUES ROTARY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN COMMUNITY LIBRARY AT BUCAPLAA INC ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGEREACH ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOUSE CRISIS INTERVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE 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: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · BHHS Legacy Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Yelp Foundation · American Express Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · Valley of the Sun United Way · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities 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 Murray 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.