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Theodore and Maxine Murnick Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Theodore and Maxine Murnick Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$199k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$168kEnvironment$154kEducation$146kReligion$131kFood & Nutrition$109kHuman Services$85kYouth Development$80kHealth$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPENDOR MEDIA INC$40,000
HORIZONS NEWARK$40,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY$30,000
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN$28,000
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES$20,000
HEBREW FREE LOAN OF NEW JERSEY$11,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER: $40k → 8%FULFILL: $2k → 6%ONE22 RESOURCE CENTER: $45k → 5%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN BOSTON: $40k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN BOSTON: $40k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $30k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $28k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $20k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
NY
MA
WY
NJ
CO
VA
DC
LA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$656k · 8 repeat orgs$295k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$656k
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+40%

Still filing today

75%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentReligionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $154k · revenue +30%
  • AH
    ALLIED HOUSING INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $90k · revenue +12%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $80k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • PL
    PJ LIBRARY INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • OI
    One22 Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +49%
  • VE
    VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +45%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Connect Co

At food connect, we're dedicated to bridging the gaps in our food system, working to end hunger and fostering healthier communities through our innovative initiatives and programs. we build scalable technologies that support last-mile…

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
5
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
6
Foodshot Global Inc

Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
7
Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition
8
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
9
Hunger Solutions New York Inc

We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…

Food & Nutrition
10
Feeding Westchester Inc

Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.

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11
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
12
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc; the most unlike its peers is Horizons Newark Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIED HOUSING INC: $90,000 · OtherALLIED HOUSING INCHEBREW FREE LOAN OF NEW JERSEY: $51,000 · OtherHEBREW FREE LOAN OF NEW JERSEYPJ LIBRARY INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · OtherPJ LIBRARY INTERNATIONALTULANE UNIVERSITY HILLEL CENTER: $40,000 · OtherTULANE UNIVERSITY HILLEL CENTERHUBB ARTS AND TRAUMA CENTER INC: $32,000 · OtherHUBB ARTS AND TRAUMA CENTER INCIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+5 more: $22,300 · Other+5 moreFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BO…HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $78,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDR…One22 Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesOne22 IncVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC+1 more: $2,400 · Human ServicesGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC: $154,000 · EnvironmentGREATER NEWARK CON…THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $85,000 · Food & NutritionTHE URBAN F…Feeding America: $9,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Ame…+3 more: $6,300 · Food & Nutrition+3 moreHORIZONS NEWARK INC: $86,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS N…OPENDOR MEDIA INC: $40,000 · ReligionFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$315,300Human Services$245,400Environment$154,000Food & Nutrition$100,300Youth Development$86,000Religion$40,000Arts & Culture$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC: $154,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetALLIED HOUSING INC: $90,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetHORIZONS NEWARK INC: $86,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $85,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $80,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $78,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOne22 Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPOONFULS: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTETON VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Theodore and Maxine Murnick Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Theodore and Maxine Murnick Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Theodore and Maxine Murnick Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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