Funding search · EIN 237456468 · Vancouver, WA

M J Murdock Charitable Trust

Name: M J Murdock Charitable Trust grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

2,400
grants reported: $283.0M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $70,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

staff development facility building expansion director phase capacity

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Facility construction, renovation and expansion for nonprofits
Scientific research instrumentation at Northwest colleges and universities
Rural hospital and community health center buildings and imaging equipment
Youth-serving organizations: YMCAs, Boys & Girls Clubs, Christian ministries
Arts and cultural facilities: theaters, museums, public broadcasting
Native and immigrant community centers in AK, OR, WA

Typical grant

Median is $70,000, with the middle half between $33,000 and $143,000, so most awards are modest. The big checks, $400,000 to $1 million, go almost entirely to bricks and mortar: new construction, renovation, or a single large capital purchase like an MRI or a mass spectrometer. Smaller grants tend to fund program support and equipment, and organizations do come back over years for successive capital projects.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“FACILITY CONSTRUCTION”
“FACILITY RENOVATION”
“NEW CONSTRUCTION”
“PROGRAM EXPANSION”
“NEW EQUIPMENT”

Positioning adjacent work

Ask for a named instrument, not salaries: LC-MS, microscopes, sequencers, and imaging systems are what they buy.
Size an instrument request between $350,000 and $550,000, the range they repeatedly fund at Northwest universities.
Tie research capacity to undergraduate or regional benefit; they fund small private colleges alongside flagship universities.
If your work needs lab space, frame it as facility renovation, their single most common grant purpose.

Worth knowing: Giving is tightly bound to the Pacific Northwest and Alaska; WA and OR take about two thirds of grants, and the rare out-of-region awards go to national organizations with Northwest ties or Christian-affiliated groups. This is a capital and equipment funder first, so program and operating requests are the exception rather than the pattern.

50 grants matching “position” · $2.1M

$37,000
Ecology Project International · Missoula, MT · 2024
Communications and marketing staff positions
$18,000
Corporation of Gonzaga University · Spokane, WA · 2024
Start-up research package for new position in biology
$18,000
University of Portland · Portland, OR · 2024
Start-up research package for new position in biology
$18,000
The College of Idaho · Caldwell, ID · 2024
Start-up research package for new position in biology
$18,000
University of Puget Sound · Tacoma, WA · 2024
Start-up research package for new position in biology
$18,000
Lewis & Clark College · Portland, OR · 2024
Start-up research package for new position in chemistry
$18,000
Lewis & Clark College · Portland, OR · 2024
Start-up research package for new position in physics
$18,000
Lewis & Clark College · Portland, OR · 2024
Start-up research package for new position in biology
$18,000
Pacific University · Forest Grove, OR · 2024
Start-up research package for new position in biology
$18,000
Reed Institute · Portland, OR · 2024
Start-up research package for new position in physics
$18,000
Reed Institute · Portland, OR · 2024
Start-up research package for new position in psychology
$15,000
Whitman College Board of Trustees · Walla Walla, WA · 2024
Start-up research package for new position in physics
$13,000
Corporation of Gonzaga University · Spokane, WA · 2024
Start-up research package for new position in chemistry and biochemistry
$12,700
Corporation of Gonzaga University · Spokane, WA · 2024
Start-up research package for new position in biology
$12,500
Pacific Lutheran University · Tacoma, WA · 2024
Start-up research package for new position in chemistry
$216,500
Covenant Youth of Alaska · Anchorage, AK · 2023
Capacity building - new staff positions
$162,500
Girl Scouts of Western Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
Covid-19 relief via new positions for girl scout camps
$138,500
Junior Achievement of Washington · Auburn, WA · 2023
Junior achievement of washington staff positions
$109,000
Camp Fire Central Oregon · Bend, OR · 2023
Building capacity to reach and serve diverse populations with a new staff position of marketing and development director
$98,000
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra · Seattle, WA · 2023
Syso expansion initiative: performance production manager position
$95,000
Black Fret · Seattle, WA · 2023
New position - seattle program expansion
$89,000
Christ Kitchen · Spokane, WA · 2023
Wholesale and outside events position
$80,250
Oregon Historical Society · Portland, OR · 2023
Ohs educator position
$75,000
Washington Trust for Historic Preservation · Seattle, WA · 2023
Maritime washington national heritage area program director position
$66,500
Prickly Pear Land Trust · Helena, MT · 2023
Content creator position
$63,000
North Cascades Institute · Sedrowoolley, WA · 2023
Director of inclusion and community partnerships - new position
$60,250
International Deaf Education Association · Billings, MT · 2023
Executive director position
$32,000
Florence Crittenton · Helena, MT · 2023
Capacity-building staff positions for fc
$30,000
Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies · Homer, AK · 2023
Mental health & resiliency specialist staff position
$28,250
Summit Classical Christian School · Bellevue, WA · 2023
Development director position
$26,000
Re Sources · Bellingham, WA · 2023
New staff position to develop and manage groundbreaking program
$24,000
Friends of the Children Central Oregon · Bend, OR · 2023
Breaking the cycle of generational poverty through positive-relationship building
$18,000
College of Idaho · Caldwell, ID · 2023
Start-up research package for new position in biology
$18,000
University of Portland · Portland, OR · 2023
Start-up research package for new position in biology
$18,000
University of Puget Sound · Tacoma, WA · 2023
Start-up research package for new position in biology
$18,000
Reed College · Portland, OR · 2023
Start-up research package for new position in chemistry
$18,000
Reed College · Portland, OR · 2023
Start-up research package for new position in physics
$17,500
Oregon Energy Fund · Portland, OR · 2023
Funding for full-time finance position
$15,000
Whitman College · Walla Walla, WA · 2023
Start-up research package for new position in physics
$15,000
Seattle Pacific University · Seattle, WA · 2023
Start-up research package for new position in chemistry
$14,500
Gather 4 Him · Kennewick, WA · 2023
Compensated academic dean position
$12,700
Gonzaga University · Spokane, WA · 2023
Start-up research package for new position in biology
$12,500
Pacific Lutheran University · Tacoma, WA · 2023
Start-up research package for new position in chemistry
$97,000
Ecology Project International · Missoula, MT · 2022
Communications and marketing staff positions
$75,000
Boys & Girls Club of Salem Marion & Polk Counties · Salem, OR · 2022
Strategic positioning for the future
$36,500
Set Free Alaska · Wasilla, AK · 2022
New position
$15,000
University of Portland · Portland, OR · 2022
Start-up research package for new position in biology
$15,000
Seattle University · Seattle, WA · 2022
Start-up research package for new position in physics
$15,000
Carroll College · Helena, MT · 2022
Start-up research package for new position in biology
$15,000
Seattle Pacific University · Seattle, WA · 2022
Start-up research package for new position in chemistry

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Young Life12 grants · $3.2M
Trust Matching Gifts2 grants · $2.5M
University of Washington9 grants · $2.2M
Whitworth University6 grants · $2.1M
George Fox University5 grants · $1.9M
Washington State University Foundation15 grants · $1.9M
Oregon Health and Science University Foundation10 grants · $1.7M
Oregon State University8 grants · $1.6M
M J Murdock Charitable Trust1 grant · $1.5M
Carroll College8 grants · $1.5M

Giving over time

$86.3M

2022

$80.1M

2023

$116.6M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 2,400 grants.

$2.0M
Young Life · Colorado Springs, CO · 2023
Wfr muddy road project
$1.5M
M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Vancouver, WA · 2024
Matching gifts
$1.5M
Whitworth University · Spokane, WA · 2022
New facility
$1.5M
Trust Matching Gifts · Vancouver, WA · 2022
Matching gifts
$1.0M
Trust Matching Gifts · Vancouver, WA · 2023
Trust matching gifts
$1.0M
Cook Inlet Tribal Council · Anchorage, AK · 2024
New fab lab
$1.0M
Friends of Seattle Waterfront · Seattle, WA · 2024
Downtown shoreline construction
$1.0M
Latino Network · Portland, OR · 2024
Facility construction
$1.0M
Northwest University · Kirkland, WA · 2024
New health sciences programs and facility renovation
$1.0M
Friends of Waterfront Seattle · Seattle, WA · 2022
Downtown shoreline construction
$1.0M
Patricia Reser Center for the Arts · Beaverton, OR · 2022
Facility construction
$800,000
Carroll College · Helena, MT · 2024
Library renovation
$800,000
The Veritas Forum · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Faculty development pipeline program
$800,000
Linfield University · McMinnville, OR · 2022
New facility
$750,000
Human Resource Development Council of District Ix · Bozeman, MT · 2024
Facility construction
$750,000
Kcts Television · Seattle, WA · 2024
Purchase and renovation of facility
$750,000
Larche Foundation of Greater Vancouver · 2024
New facility construction
$750,000
The Young Mens Christian Association of Boise City Idaho · Boise, ID · 2024
New construction
$750,000
Alutiiq Heritage Foundation · Kodiak, AK · 2023
Alutiiq museum permanent facility
$750,000
Bibleproject · Portland, OR · 2023
Global distribution architecture
$750,000
Congregations for the Homeless · Bellevue, WA · 2023
Shelter, reimagined: cfh capital campaign
$750,000
Friends of Montana Pbs · Bozeman, MT · 2023
Montana pbs building possibilities campaign
$700,000
Generous Giving · Chattanooga, TN · 2024
Program support
$700,000
George Fox University · Newberg, OR · 2024
Facility construction
$700,000
Reid Saunders Evangelistic Association · Salem, OR · 2024
New facility
$700,000
Oaks Education Association · Spokane Valley, WA · 2023
The deep roots initiative
$700,000
Generous Giving · Chattanooga, TN · 2022
Program support
$700,000
United Human Services of Se Alaska · Juneau, AK · 2022
Facility construction
$675,000
Oregon State University · Corvallis, OR · 2022
Cgmp manufacturing equipment
$650,000
4 Ranges Community Recreation Foundation · Livingston, MT · 2024
Facility construction
$650,000
Seattle Repertory Theatre · Seattle, WA · 2024
Leasehold improvements
$637,500
Pacific Lutheran University · Tacoma, WA · 2023
Community-serving investments in pre-health sciences education
$603,500
George Fox University · Newberg, OR · 2022
Online program expansion
$600,000
Alaska Native Heritage Center · Anchorage, AK · 2024
Facility renovation
$600,000
Community Leadership and Development · Billings, MT · 2022
New housing facility
$600,000
Oregon Food Bank · Portland, OR · 2022
Renovation of key facilities
$552,000
Providence Portland Medical Foundation · Portland, OR · 2023
High-parameter flow cytometry suite to enhance cancer immunotherapy research
$550,500
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (lc-ms)
$550,000
Friends of the Children · Portland, OR · 2024
Facility remodel and expansion
$550,000
Mental Health & Addiction Association of Oregon · Portland, OR · 2024
Facility renovation
$550,000
Regents of the University of Idaho · Moscow, ID · 2024
Chemical ionization-mass spectrometer
$550,000
Whitworth University · Spokane, WA · 2024
Facilities renovation
$550,000
University of Oregon Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2023
Electron energy loss spectrometer detector for the transmission electron microscope in camcor
$550,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
Northwest quantum emitters microscope
$533,500
Northwest Indian College · Bellingham, WA · 2022
New facility construction
$527,500
Oregon Health and Science University Foundation · Portland, OR · 2023
Biofabrication equipment for engineering of precision tumor models at the knight cancer institute
$525,000
Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason · Seattle, WA · 2024
Nucleic acids sequencing, microscopy, and imaging equipment
$506,500
Seattle University · Seattle, WA · 2023
Reimagine and revise the curriculum
$500,000
Central Montana Medical Facilities · Lewistown, MT · 2024
Renovation and new construction
$500,000
Childrens Home Society of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
Facility renovation
$500,000
Chugachmiut · Anchorage, AK · 2024
New construction
$500,000
Comprehensive Mental Health Center of Tacoma Pierce County · Tacoma, WA · 2024
Facility renovation
$500,000
Empowering Youth & Families Outreach · Seattle, WA · 2024
New construction
$500,000
Grande Ronde Hospital · La Grande, OR · 2024
New construction
$500,000
Helena Food Share · Helena, MT · 2024
Facility construction
$500,000
Interfaith Sanctuary Housingservices · Boise, ID · 2024
Facility renovation
$500,000
Lighthouse Mission Ministries · Bellingham, WA · 2024
New facility
$500,000
Literary Arts · Portland, OR · 2024
Facility renovations
$500,000
Meals On Wheels People · Portland, OR · 2024
Facility renovation
$500,000
Mountain Home Montana · Missoula, MT · 2024
Facility renovations
$500,000
North Valley Music School · Whitefish, MT · 2024
New facility
$500,000
Olympic Peninsula Young Mens Christian Assn · Sequim, WA · 2024
New construction
$500,000
Seattle Aquarium Society-Seas · Seattle, WA · 2024
Facility expansion
$500,000
University of Portland · Portland, OR · 2024
New facility
$500,000
Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center · Aloha, OR · 2024
Renovation and new construction
$500,000
Artists Repertory Theatre · Portland, OR · 2023
Rise - the campaign for artist repertory theatre
$500,000
Chehalem Cultural Center · Newberg, OR · 2023
Community performing arts wing
$500,000
Friends of Hopewell House · Portland, OR · 2023
Opening hopewell house: portlands only hospice residential care facility
$500,000
Friends of Zoo Boise · Boise, ID · 2023
Heart of the zoo renovation phase 1a: new red panda and meerkat homes
$500,000
Heroes and Horses · Belgrade, MT · 2023
One-eighty out capital campaign
$500,000
Lighthouse Mission Ministries · Bellingham, WA · 2023
Lighthouse mission ministries homeless services center
$500,000
Parrott Creek Child and Family Services · Oregon City, OR · 2023
Bright futures campaign
$500,000
American Prairie Foundation · Bozeman, MT · 2022
Facility renovation
$500,000
Imagine Children'S Museum · Everett, WA · 2022
Facility expansion
$500,000
Literary Arts · Portland, OR · 2022
Facility renovations
$500,000
Madison Memorial Hospital · Rexburg, ID · 2022
Facility renovation
$500,000
Northwest Maritime Center · Port Townsend, WA · 2022
Facility purchase
$500,000
Oregon Coast Aquarium · Newport, OR · 2022
New exhibits
$500,000
Reed College · Portland, OR · 2022
Library expansion and renovation
$500,000
Triumph Treatment Services · Yakima, WA · 2022
Facility construction
$500,000
Vela Education Fund · Glencoe, IL · 2022
Program support
$500,000
World Vision · Federal Way, WA · 2022
New digital technology
$497,500
Oregon State University · Corvallis, OR · 2022
Autonomous multibeam system
$493,500
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Lewis Clark Valley · Lewiston, ID · 2024
Facility renovation
$481,000
Seattle Children'S Hospital Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2023
Integrated flow cytometry core
$480,000
University of Montana Foundation · Missoula, MT · 2023
Acquisition of a microfabrication system quantum x bio system as part of the montana biotechnology center research development initiative
$475,000
Santiam Memorial Hospital · Stayton, OR · 2024
Emergency department renovation and expansion
$473,500
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
A new era of environmental sensing: the uw photonic sensing facility
$470,500
Nome Community Center · Nome, AK · 2023
Homeplate: nome's housing first project
$450,000
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial · Bainbridge Island, WA · 2024
Facility construction
$450,000
Foundation for Community Care of Richland County · Sidney, MT · 2024
Purchase of a new hyperbaric system
$450,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · Seattle, WA · 2024
Scanners and ai-supported digital analysis software
$450,000
Grays Harbor County Public Hospital District 1 · Elma, WA · 2024
New magnetic resonance imaging unit
$450,000
Kodiak Hockey League · Kodiak, AK · 2024
Facility renovation
$450,000
Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2024
Upper salmon basin conservation easement
$450,000
Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington · Yakima, WA · 2024
Facility renovation
$450,000
Southeast Alaska Food Bank · Juneau, AK · 2024
New warehouse facility
$450,000
University of Alaska Foundation · Fairbanks, AK · 2024
New equipment
$450,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
Photolithography and atomic force microscope
$450,000
Pullman Regional Hospital Foundation · Pullman, WA · 2022
Facility renovation

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.