· Private foundation
1997 John & Mary Murphy Educational Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Winchester Foundation Education | $45,000 |
| Winchester Scholarship Foundation | $40,000 |
| Wright-Locke Land Trust | $20,000 |
| A Better Chance ABC | $15,000 |
| The Jenks Senior Center | $15,000 |
| Winchester Rotary Club | $10,000 |
| Griffin Museum of Photography | $7,500 |
| Friends of the Winchester Library | $2,850 |
| Winchester Public Schools | $2,500 |
| Parent to Parent | $1,800 |
| Muraco Elementry School | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WSWinchester Scholarship Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +135%
- TGTHE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +164%
- WFWRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC2× · 2018–2020 · $40k · revenue +234%
Funded once
- MMMcCall Mid School Extracurr Activities Progone grant, 2017 · $36k
- WCWinchester Coalition for a Safer Communityone grant, 2018 · $10k
- WCWinchester Community Musicone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The winchester education foundation is dedicated to elevating our community through promoting educational opportunities and providing support for winchester public school, its students, teachers and staff.
Provide comprehensive education including reading,writing,social studies,math,sciences,foreign languages,physical education,music, and performing arts for elementary, middle and high school age children
The organization's exempt purpose is to support the educational activities of winsor school by funding programs, events, and resources that enhance the academic and social experience of students. activities include organizing volunteer…
Wps is an innovative secondary school with an advanced model of education where learning thrives everywhere - in our classroom, through internships, and throughout the local and greater communities. our teachers are dedicated to creating…
Pre-school education & child care
Winchester Cooperative Nursery School offers a positive, first-school experience for preschool children and their families. The School provides a welcoming and supportive community that fosters learning and development in a nurturing…
The mission of our school is to provide an environment and activities which facilitate the physical, mental, social, and emotional growth of students of diverse backgrounds and abilities.
The acting, directing, and writing of staged plays to bring high quality entertainment and culture to our community through a variety of endeavors in the performing arts.
The windham endowment for community advancement is a non-profit community foundation created to enhance the quality of life for all windham residents, now and for generations to come. the endowment provides a way for individuals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Winchester Community Music School Trust and the most unlike its peers is Parent to Parent Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Winchester Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT-LOCKE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY INC ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT-LOCKE FARM CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL TRUST ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL PARENT FACULTY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Parent to Parent Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NETWORK FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIO INTEGRATED THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Muraco Elementary School Parents Association ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization 1997 John & Mary Murphy Educational Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Griffin Museum of Photography Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Network for Social Justice Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wright-Locke Farm Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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