· Private foundation
The Murrell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k23 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONS OF TEXAS | $35,000 |
| THERAPEUTIC HORSES OF SARATOGA INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| UTSW MEDICAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| PRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $18,000 |
| AMERICAN AIR MUSEUM IN BRITAIN | $12,500 |
| SEG4VETS | $12,500 |
| REDEMPTION BRIDGE | $10,000 |
| THE STEW POT | $10,000 |
| PILOTS TO THE RESCUE | $9,500 |
| RAINBOW DAYS | $7,000 |
| THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION | $6,700 |
| OMEGA HORSE RESCUE | $5,050 |
| FORTH WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HIS | $5,000 |
| LONE STAR CASA INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
44 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 12 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
- DADALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC5× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +45%
- SRSTANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +4%
- RHRanch Hands Rescue6× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +210%
Funded once
- TDTHE DALLAS MORNING NEWS EDUC LABone grant, 2024 · $25k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2024 · $20k
- TGTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
Adoption and shelter facility for unwanted, abandoned and neglected animals. provide aid to the community who need help with vetting or care of their animals.
One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…
Animal rescue and rehabilitation
Provide food, shelter and care for homeless, unwanted, pets. give pets a second chance by adoption. pay medical bills incoming injured animals, assist pet owners with free spay/neuter and medical appointments at veterinarians. educate thr…
Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
Rescue dogs that have been abused, not cared for by owner or turned into the local animal control shelter
To rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home abused, neglected and slaughter bound horses of all breads and sizes. To provide a safe, loving and rehabilitative home, including all needed medical care, to every incoming animal. Once ready for their…
As an advocate for the community goal of maintaining its no kill status, the humane society provides adoption, rescue and foster opportunities for the homeless animals at the city of waco animal shelter, as well as community education…
At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Texas and the most unlike its peers is Animal Angels. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 114 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 COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Beyond the Roses Equine Rescue and Retirement ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FDN ↗
- Who funds Ranch Hands Rescue ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC HORSES OF SARATOGA INC ↗
- Who funds REDEMPTION BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of North Texas ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds OMEGA HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN AIR MUSEUM IN BRITAIN ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds RACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Army Scholarship Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON TEENS ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
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 Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Jl Williams Foundation Inc · Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Moody Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Celanese Foundation · Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc · The Perot 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Murrell 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.
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