M.J. Murdock Trust Awards $1.9 Million to Idaho Nonprofits, Including Safe Passage

Safe Passage in Coeur d’Alene will use a $199,000 grant for staff development aimed at reducing the incidence of domestic violence and child abuse and neglect, funds that came from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust’s Fall 2025 Grants Report. The trust’s report shows the award to Safe Passage is one of nine grants to Idaho nonprofits totaling $1,928,000 as part of a larger round of regional funding.

The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust published its Fall 2025 Grants Report announcing 112 total grants to Pacific Northwest nonprofits, with the report listing total grant awards of $30,848,000. The report states this includes $1,928,000 through nine grants to nonprofits serving the Idaho community, and the trust provided a full grantee list alongside the announcement.

In North Idaho, the $199,000 designated for Safe Passage Coeur d’Alene is explicitly for staff development to reduce domestic violence and child abuse/neglect, a programmatic purpose that targets service capacity in Kootenai County. Strengthening staff skills at an agency that serves survivors can affect how quickly victims are identified, triaged, and connected with emergency and long-term supports across local hospitals, law enforcement and social services.

The trust describes itself as created by the will of the late Melvin J. (Jack) Murdock and funds organizations in five states of the Pacific Northwest - Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. The trust’s archived materials note that since its inception in 1975 it has awarded more than 7,300 grants totaling more than $1.1 billion, placing the Fall 2025 round in the context of decades of regional philanthropy.

The Fall 2025 Grants Report was published Feb. 25, 2026, and the trust indicated a full list of grantees is available with the report. For Kootenai County service providers and policymakers, the nine Idaho awards and the $199,000 Safe Passage grant are immediate inputs for local planning in 2026 - from staffing and training budgets at nonprofits to coordination with health and child-protection systems that respond to domestic violence and child abuse.