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The Murren Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE | $25,105 |
| KINGS ACADEMY INC | $10,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE AUDUBON SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY | $6,500 |
| SHORERIVERS | $6,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $6,500 |
| CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE | $6,500 |
| TOURO UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| ACOR | $1,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +40%- CRCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED3× · 2017–2019 · $300k · revenue +3%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2022 · $65k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF TRINITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $200k
- HSHOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $100k
- RJRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -9%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University 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.
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 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 50 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 THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MGM RESORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds TOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA ↗
- Who funds THE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VMSN INC ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KING'S ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGS PRESERVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF LAS VEGAS INC ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · The Bennett Family Foundation · Rosenblum Family Foundation · Raiders Foundation Nv · Engelstad Family Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 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.
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Oyster Recovery Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bridgeport Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- National Braille Press Inc — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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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