The MurthyNAYAK Foundation is proud to support a wide range of organizations that share our goals and our commitment to public-spirited good works. We choose our partner organizations carefully, targeting our social investments for maximum impact.

We look for organizations that have the capacity to make substantial improvements within our communities of interest. We prefer to invest for the long term, in path-breaking programs and ideas that will make our world a better place.

The MurthyNAYAK Foundation does this by building relationships with committed social entrepreneurs — creative people whose work attacks systemic problems at their roots; we strongly favor programs that promote basic justice and human dignity, empowering the needy with a hand up, not a handout.

Sheela Murthy and the MurthyNAYAK Foundation have built a long, consistent record of philanthropy focused on strengthening communities across the United States, particularly to provide opportunities to children, education, health, veterans, and women’s empowerment. From its early years, the Foundation has directed resources to organizations that expand opportunity for Americans – especially those facing economic, educational, health, or other challenges.

The Foundation’s work has included substantial financial and governance support over the years for well-established U.S. organizations and non-profits like the American Red Cross 9/11, Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Maryland, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Community College of Baltimore County, Homeless Persons Representation Project, Homeless Youth Initiative, Housing Justice Project, Komen Foundation, Maryland Lawyers’ Campaign Against Hunger, Maryland Legal Aid, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Veterans Legal Assistance Project, Women’s Law Center of Maryland, the Girl Scouts, Harvard Law School, the Maryland Institute College of Art, Stevenson University, United Ways in Maryland & Florida, among others. By supporting organizations that help Americans, the Foundation has strengthened workforce participation through various programs and the benefits of that ripple outward to local economies and communities across the U.S.