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The Murray Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$346k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$564kEducation$210kHealth$201kFood & Nutrition$195kPublic Safety & Disaster$185kHuman Services$145kEnvironment$107kPhilanthropy$103kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $316k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARIZONA LEGAL WOMEN AND YOUTH SERVICES$45,000
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FDN INC$35,862
WATER ORG INC$25,000
ST MARYS FOOD BANK ALLIANCE$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$24,930
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC$20,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$20,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$20,000
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC$20,000
GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY PROJECT$15,000
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING$15,000
DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION$10,000
TALLER SALUD INC$10,000
JACKSON HOUSE CRISIS INTERVENTION$10,000
CASA CORNELIA LEGAL SERVICES$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DESERT MISSION INC: $5k → 11%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK INC: $4k → 14%HIPPOCRATES HEALTH INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON LENAWEE AND HILLSDAL: $2k → 13%UNBOUND: $3k → 16%HENDERSON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $3k → 12%THE MANKIND PROJECT: $10k → 6%DESERT MISSION INC: $1k → 11%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK INC: $3k → 14%THE SAN FRANCISCO PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF THE SOCIET: $5k → 10%HIPPOCRATES HEALTH INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 11%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $5k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON LENAWEE AND HILLSDAL: $2k → 13%MANKIND PROJECT: $10k → 6%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK INC: $2k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON LENAWEE AND HILLSDAL: $1k → 13%THE MANKIND PROJECT: $5k → 6%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK INC: $2k → 14%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $3k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON LENAWEE AND HILLSDAL: $1k → 13%MANKIND PROJECT: $2k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON LENAWEE AND HILLSDAL: $1k → 13%APOPO US INC: $3k → 14%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $3k → 7%BENEVILLA: $2k → 11%ADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $23k → 12%APOPO US INC: $2k → 14%ADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 12%ADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 12%CIRCLE THE CITY: $5k → 11%APOPO US INC: $5k → 14%RYAN HOUSE: $5k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $5k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $5k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $3k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $2k → 11%AYUDA: $5k → 14%DRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX: $2k → 11%SINGLETON MOMS: $5k → 11%NOT MY KID INC: $3k → 11%NOT MY KID INC: $2k → 11%NOT MY KID INC: $1k → 11%NOT MY KID INC: $1k → 11%AREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION ONE INCORPORATED: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
AR
NC
SC
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 71 repeat orgs$974k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
88

Total granted

$1.6M
$791k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+32%

Still filing today

83%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHealthCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BF
    BRAZIL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $114k · revenue +95%
  • NA
    NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $107k · revenue +184%
  • W
    WATERORG
    8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • OW
    One World Childrens Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -52%
  • LI
    Local Independent Online News Publishers Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +71%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
3
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
4
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
5
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
6
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

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9
Devworks International

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.

Human Services
10
Common Impact Inc

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…

Unclassified
11
People Inc

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,…

Human Services
12
Accion International

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; 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.
04the grantee network

154 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
149/154
Grantees still filing
108/154
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN RED CROSS: $105,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSBELLINGCAT FUND: $85,000 · OtherBELLINGCAT FUNDAYRES-KNUTH FARM FOUNDATION INC: $49,000 · OtherArizona Legal Women and Youth Services: $45,000 · Other+86 more: $772,931 · Other+86 moreBRAZIL FOUNDATION: $114,000 · InternationalBRAZIL FOUNDATIONWATERORG: $80,000 · InternationalWATERORGWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $54,930 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN…CAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATIONHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $30,000 · InternationalHIMALAYAN CATARACT PR…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $20,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $20,000 · International+17 more: $140,500 · International+17 moreOne World Childrens Fund: $100,000 · PhilanthropyOne World…LENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $36,000 · PhilanthropyLENAWEE C…CASA BRAZIL INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyCASA BRAZ…TIDES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOU…FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO: $10,000 · PhilanthropySOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $106,899 · EducationNORTHERN …VILLAGEREACH: $20,000 · EducationVILLAGERE…SAN JUAN COMMUNITY LIBRARY AT BUCAPLAA INC: $20,000 · EducationSAN JUAN …READ BETTER BE BETTER: $13,000 · EducationREAD BETT…SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY: $13,000 · EducationSIENA HEI…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · Education+8 more: $31,500 · Education+8 moreADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER: $38,000 · Human ServicesMankind Project: $27,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLE THE CITY: $12,500 · Human ServicesRYAN HOUSE: $12,000 · Human ServicesYavapai Food Bank Inc: $11,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $10,834 · Human ServicesHIPPOCRATES HEALTH INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAPOPO US INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Jackson: $7,000 · Human ServicesNOTMYKID: $7,000 · Human Services+11 more: $40,500 · Human ServicesST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $65,000 · Food & NutritionARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK: $20,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $17,500 · Food & NutritionBELLAIRE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $7,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 more: $11,000 · Food & NutritionLocal Independent Online News Publishers Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARING PLACE OF HOT SPRINGS INC: $47,000 · Arts & CultureGRACE CARES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $8,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,256,931International$489,430Philanthropy$221,000Education$212,399Human Services$185,834Food & Nutrition$125,500Arts & Culture$123,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRAZIL FOUNDATION: $114,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $106,899 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWATERORG: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $54,930 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLocal Independent Online News Publishers Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CARING PLACE OF HOT SPRINGS INC: $47,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetArizona Legal Women and Youth Services: $45,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS: $38,980 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER: $38,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetLENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA BRAZIL INC: $30,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INC: $27,833 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMankind Project: $27,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY ISLANDS COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWHEN WE ALL VOTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON HOUSE CRISIS INTERVENTION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGEREACH: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIEQUES ROTARY CLUB INC: $20,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JUAN COMMUNITY LIBRARY AT BUCAPLAA INC: $20,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetONEGOAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Impact Mentoring: $19,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetFeeding America: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetEVIDENCE ACTION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREAD BETTER BE BETTER: $13,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE THE CITY: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TIA FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetRYAN HOUSE: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT: $11,333 over 3y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…Thunderbirds CharitiesNina Mason Pulliam Ch…BHHS Legacy FoundationJohn F Long Foundatio…The Yelp FoundationAmerican Express Foun…Fiesta Events IncValley of the Sun Uni…The Diane and Bruce H…Phoenix Suns Charitie…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ53.3× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Murray Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Murray Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 174 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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