The Murlo Foundation
Legal name: Murlo Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812364620
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8604909479
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,370
- Expenses
- $7,124
- Assets
- $50,543
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON BAUER (President)
People named in this filing
- JASON BAUER (President)
- MARIANNA BENDER (Treasurer)
- KATHARINE KREINDLER (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Murlo Foundation supports the Poggio Civitate Archaeological Project, an excavation of an Etruscan settlement in central Italy, by funding student scholarships, publication support, digital archiving, and virtual representation of archaeological space.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization is formed for the educational pursuit of aiding reseachers and students in the study of italian cultural, historical, and archaeological sites, primarily at poggio civitate and its environs, and to make that information and research available to the public.one intended feature of the murlo foundation is to provide subsidies and scholarships for students lacking the means to otherwise participate.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.6%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 50.4%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.09; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -40% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 49.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.