· Private foundation
The Murrell Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k16 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UTSW MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONS OF TEXAS | $36,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS MEN'S BASKETBA | $17,000 |
| REDEMPTION BRIDGE | $12,000 |
| THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION | $11,500 |
| BACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEE SERVICE TEAM | $11,000 |
| BEYOND THE ROSES EQUINE RESCUE | $10,000 |
| ARMY A CLUB | $10,000 |
| WEST POINT ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES | $10,000 |
| OURCALLING | $7,500 |
| HANNA'S SOUTHERN PAWS | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE NEW BRAUNFELS | $5,000 |
| GRAPEVINE ANIMAL SERVICES | $5,000 |
| MARCH TO THE POLLS | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–26, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2026, 31 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC5× · 2022–2026 · $32k · revenue +29%
- DADALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC5× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +45%
- SRSTANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- TDTHE DALLAS MORNING NEWS EDUC LABone grant, 2024 · $25k
- THTHERAPEUTIC HORSES OF SARATOGA INCone grant, 2025 · $20k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2025 · $20k
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.
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.
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…
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…
Animal rescue and rehabilitation
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 dogs that have been abused, not cared for by owner or turned into the local animal control shelter
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…
To work with our community to strengthen the bond between animals and people, enhancing the quality of their lives through compassionate sheltering, responsible adoptions, education, and community outreach.
Dallas street dog advocates is committed to rescuing the stray and forgotten dogs off the streets of dallas, providing them with necessary medical care and training, and finding them permanent homes where they will be cared for the rest of…
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…
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
To rescue abandoned and abused animals and find permanent homes for them.
How this is measured
67 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. 67 of the 121 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Beyond the Roses Equine Rescue and Retirement ↗
- Who funds REDEMPTION BRIDGE ↗
- 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 THERAPEUTIC HORSES OF SARATOGA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of North Texas ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds OMEGA HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN AIR MUSEUM IN BRITAIN ↗
- Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds OURCALLING INC ↗
- Who funds Army Scholarship Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON TEENS ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Murrell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Murrell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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