· Private foundation
The Murthynayak Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART | $51,000 |
| AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| APERTURE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY | $32,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND | $10,000 |
| RADIUS BOOKS | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY | $6,000 |
| KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 73% of grant dollars ($2.0M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 27% that went abroad ($754k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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
Beyond the US: 27% of all-years giving ($754k)
6 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AIAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL8× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +52%
- TUTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC5× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +27%
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- RRAHAABone grant, 2021 · $60k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $43k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $32k
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.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
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 open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…
We advocate with and for marylanders experiencing poverty to achieve equity and social justice through free civil legal services, community collaboration, and systems change.
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
Global ties u.s. (global ties) powers individuals, communities, and nations to build trust and advance peace and prosperity through international exchange.
To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The nonpartisan migration policy institute seeks to improve immigration and integration policies through authoritative research and analysis, opportunities for learning and dialogue, and the development of new ideas to address complex…
To develop cross-community knowledge and dialogue on how people, technology and innovation contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth; to inform policy-makers, by producing independent, rigorous metrics and data-based research; to…
How this is measured
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 176 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 AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RADIUS BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds JHPIEGO CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY ↗
- Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WORLD TRADE CENTER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds STEVENSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Fotofest Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC ↗
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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Johns Hopkins University · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · Wr Grace Foundation Inc · Venable Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Murthynayak Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Murthynayak Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
- Jhpiego Corporation: 65% of income from government
- Turnaround Inc: 18% of income from government
- The Women's Law Center of Md Inc: 18% of income from government
- Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland Inc: 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
- World Trade Center Institute Inc: 9% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
- Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc: 4% of income from government
- Maryland Legal Services Corporation: 4% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
- Marian House Inc: 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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