Washington · Nonprofit
M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST
M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,072 to it, the largest being GRITMAN MEDICAL CENTER INC ($225,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $180M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $263k
- Net assets
- $1.9B
What M J Murdock Charitable Trust does
Programs
Secondary science educators - two annual conferences, one a national event that brings together participants in teacher-research programs from across the country to discuss their research and for professional development. The other a regional conference that convenes pacific northwest high school science teachers supported in the program to discuss their research and participate in professional development opportunities.
$523,078 spentBoard development - program that gives nonprofit organizations and leaders the training, tools and templates for engaging in and building effective nonprofit board governance.
$418,851 spentMurdock college science research program - conference that focuses on sharing and advancing new knowledge in the sciences created or discovered through collaborative faculty-student research.
$332,478 spentEssentials of development - a non-profit training program centered on a two-day seminar designed to help smaller or start-up organizations build a sustainable development structure.
$239,108 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.4B to $1.8B (−26%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Romanita Hairston
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $256k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST has grown faster than half of the 153 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 153 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,072 to it, the largest being GRITMAN MEDICAL CENTER INC ($225,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $263,072 in grants to M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST.
- Who is the largest funder of M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST?
- GRITMAN MEDICAL CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing