How much did THE MURREN FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

Education$1.4MPhilanthropy$546kHealth$125kEnvironment$95kSocial Science$20kYouth Development$15kArts & Culture$11kHuman Services$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$500Other$776k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

trinity

2019

preppeace

2020

—

2021

howard

2022

—

2023

chesapeake wildlifewildlife heritage

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k7 grants · $34k
$10k–50k3 grants · $45k

$6,500

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE$25,105
CHESAPEAKE AUDUBON SOCIETY$10,000
KINGS ACADEMY INC$10,000
CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY$6,500
CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE$6,500
SHORERIVERS$6,500
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA$6,500
TOURO UNIVERSITY$6,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$1,000
ACOR$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.8M · 9 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%

+6%

Still filing today

44%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

HOWARD UNIVERSITY
2× · 2020–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +30%
TRINITY COLLEGE
2× · 2018–2019 · $360k · revenue -39%
CR
CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL
3× · 2017–2019 · $220k

Funded once

NC
NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +208%
TO
TRUSTEES OF TRINITY COLLEGE
one grant, 2017 · $200k
RJ
RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -3%

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

04Your field

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.

University of Maryland Alumni

Education

College of Charleston Foundation

To promote education, research, and development programs for the exclusive benefit of the college of charleston

Education

The George Washington University

Education and research

Education

Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat

To support the educational,scientific & charitable activities of vcu.

Education

Maryland Institute

Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college (see schedule o)

Education

Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

Georgetown Trust for Conservation

Contribute to the sustainability of the georgetown-silver plume historic landmark district and its environs through the preservation and interpretation of the district's cultural, artistic and natural assets.

Arts & Culture

Science Museum of Virginia Foundation

The science museum of virginia foundation (smvf), inc. supports the science museum of virginia (smv), a premier center for hands-on science education in virginia. permanent exhibitions include interactive exhibits on a wide range of…

Arts & Culture

Christopher Newport University

To receive, administer, and distribute funds and property exclusively in furtherance of the educational activities and objectives of christopher newport university.

Education

University of Virginia Alumni

To build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university of virginia while representing the independent voice and perspective of alumni.

Education

University of Maryland Foundation Inc

The University System of Maryland Foundation supports public higher education in Maryland through philanthropy, asset management, and stewardship.

Education

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc

The mission of the chesapeake bay maritime museum is to preserve and explore the history, environment, and people of the chesapeake bay. the vision of the chesapeake bay maritime museum is to be the see sched o.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baltimore Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 45 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/26

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,539

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.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

17/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$1,370,500Other$790,823Philanthropy$546,000Health$125,000Environment$94,605Social Science$20,000Youth Development$15,000

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.

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.

Vegas Golden Knights Foundation IncNV13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 organisation THE MURREN 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 520178636 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Murren Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Murren Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MURREN FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Murren Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE MURREN FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Murren Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph