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MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP

MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,546 to it, the largest being The Back Yard Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$253k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$1.0M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Macmurray Foundation and Alumni Association Nfp does

Mission

The purpose of the organization is to engage in activities and fundraising to perserve the hitory, mission, and legac of macmurray college. See schedule o for more detailed explanation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide scholarships for students to attend colleges/universities in accordance with the organization's policies.

    $58,500 spentof which $58,500 as grants
    40% of program spending
  2. Support for jacksonville based museums or similar organization that allow public access to exhibits and displays of macmurray college memorabilia artifacts and archives designed to explain the college's history and legacy.

    $77,854 spent$33,472 earned by the program
    53% of program spending
  3. To preserve the history, charitable purposes and legacy of macmurray college, including engaging alumni of the college in ways to foster their continuing commitment to the college's legacy.

    $11,068 spent$21,633 earned by the program
    8% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $147,422.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($136k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($81k)2022 Revenue 315 ($427k) Expenses 154 ($84k) Net assets 522 ($425k)2023 Revenue 135 ($184k) Expenses 276 ($150k) Net assets 564 ($459k)2024 Revenue 476 ($646k) Expenses 270 ($147k) Net assets 1104 ($898k)2025 Revenue 186 ($253k) Expenses 353 ($192k) Net assets 1256 ($1.0M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (186)Expenses (353)Net assets (1256)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $518k to $960k (+85%).

$116k
$467k
$518k
$960k
$1.1M
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

110% of MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$81k
’21
$343k
’22
$34k
’23
$499k
’24
$61k
’25
1.5
months of
reserve

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.

Board chair

David Ekin

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed12121211
Joined·+2+3+2
No longer listed·233
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $205.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP’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

MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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

90%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 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

MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $546 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · above the median
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP?
MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,546 to it, the largest being The Back Yard Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,546 in grants to MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP?
The Back Yard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MACMURRAY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NFP find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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