· Private foundation
The Murray Foundation Inc
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACKSON ARTS COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| CARE CENTER | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TN | $2,000 |
| EXCHANGE CENTER CARL PERKINS | $2,000 |
| HOPE RECOVERY CENTER | $1,200 |
| LIBERTY GARDEN PARK CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| RIFA | $1,000 |
| MADISON COUNTY YOUTH BASEBALL | $800 |
| FCA | $500 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $500 |
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 (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -45% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- TCTHE CARE CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +22%
- JAJACKSON ARTS COUNCIL5× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +20%
- SCStar Center Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $5k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- TDThe Dream Centerone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -45%
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.
Our continuing mission is to change the lives of those who suffer from alcohol and drug addiction.
Pregnancy counseling
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
To provide pregnancy testing (including ultrasound examinations), counseling, and referrals as needed (including post-abortion counseling) in our offices and through our 24-hour help-line.
Pregnancy counseling
We are a crisis pregnancy center offering assistance to all women with pregnancy related issues.
WCC of Milwaukee Corp provides pregnancy resources such as education, counseling, free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds, tangible assistance, assistance, and parenting supplies to financially disadvantage women.
To provide support for pregnant women
Offer life-affirming choices for pregnancy and sexual health.
Counseling and pregnancy care services including pregnancy testing and ultrasound examinations.
Pregnancy and abortion related issues
The Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Care Center and the most unlike its peers is Birth Choice Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JACKSON ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Star Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRTH CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds SCARLET ROPE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Hope Recovery Center ↗
- Who funds WEST TN AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Dream Center ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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: West Tn Healthcare Foundation Inc · The Richardson Charitable Foundation · James E Campbell Family Foundation 26-3889180 · Charles & Debby Campbell Family Foundation · Charles P Wilson Foundation Inc · United Way of West Tennesseinc Starks · Southwest Members Care Incorporated · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Foundation Inc 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.
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