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Brian & Mary Murphy Family Foundation

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Health$1.1MEducation$193kReligion$56kPhilanthropy$54kHuman Services$36kArts & Culture$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kCommunity Improvement$300Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,075,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER$1,075,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 1% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $1k → 15%FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER: $1.1M → 4%DAYTOP NEW JERSEY: $600 → 5%WHARTON INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMIN: $5k → 10%SURFLIGHT THEATRE: $3k → 11%MILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $1k → 15%FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN: $20k → 4%WHARTON INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMIN: $1k → 10%SURFLIGHT THEATER: $1k → 11%MILLL MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $1k → 15%FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN: $20k → 4%WHARTON INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMIN: $1k → 10%SURFLITE THEATER: $1k → 11%MILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $1k → 15%JERSEY'S BATTERED WOMEN'S: $15k → 4%SURFLIGHT THEATER: $1k → 11%MILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $1k → 15%JERSEY'S BATTERED WOMEN'S: $15k → 4%SURFLIGHT THEATRE: $500 → 11%JERSEY'S BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC: $15k → 4%JERSEY'S BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC: $15k → 4%PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $11k → 4%PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $11k → 4%FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 4%FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN: $10k → 4%JERSEY'S BATTERED WOMEN'S: $10k → 4%PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $6k → 4%PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $5k → 4%PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $5k → 4%FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER: $2k → 4%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $1k → 4%MARKET STREET MISSION: $1k → 4%THE 200 CLUB OF MORRIS COUNTY: $300 → 4%ST PETER'S ORPHANAGE: $250 → 4%ST PETER'S ORPHANAGE: $250 → 4%ST PETER'S ORPHANAGE: $250 → 4%ST LAWRENCE CHURCH: $14k → 4%ST LAWRENCE CHURCH: $14k → 4%ST LAWRENCE CHURCH: $10k → 4%ST LAWRENCE CHURCH: $10k → 4%ST LAWRENCE CHURCH: $7k → 4%SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 4%SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 4%SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 4%SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 4%SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 4%CHESTER FIRE COMPANY: $250 → 4%CHESTER TWP BPA LOCAL 315: $250 → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 15 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -27% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
8

Total granted

$1.5M
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-27%

Still filing today

40%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthOther

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

  • FF
    Foundation for Morristown Medical Center
    3× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +45%
  • PA
    PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $38k · revenue +11%
  • MM
    Mill Memorial Library
    5× · 2019–2023 · $5k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • MS
    MARKET STREET MISSION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • ST
    SURFLITE THEATER
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $600

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
County College of Morris Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to raise and manage philanthropic gifts for the benefit of the college, its students and the community.

Education
2
Delran Emergency Squad

Emergency Squad

Health
3
Corporation for New Jersey Local Media

We build strong communities through journalism and civic engagement.

Public Benefit
4
Nj State Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Assoc Inc

It is the mission of the new jersey firefighters mutual benevolent association to represent, protect, and educate the firefighters, emts, and dispatchers throughout the state of new jersey through representation at the local, state, and…

5
Chilton Medical Center Foundation Inc

Chilton Medical Center Foundation is solely dedicated to supporting the capital needs of Chilton Medical Center and its family of affiliates. Much like our founding benefactors, the Foundation raises money to enhance the quality of health…

Human Services
6
Foundation for Hackettstown Medical Center

To serve the philanthropic needs for the Hackettstown Medical Center.

7
New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation

To advance educational choice for new jersey's children through quality public charter schools.

Education
8
Cranberry Township Emergency Medical Service

To preserve life and promote health and safety in our community.

Health
9
Karen Ann Quinlan Memorial Foundation

The organization was formed for charitable purposes to provide appropriate care to terminally ill patients and services to their families who reside primarily in sussex and warren counties, new jersey and pike county, pennsylvania.

Human Services
10
Green Twp Vol Fire Dept Inc

To protect life and property from loss and damage caused by fire and other emergencies that threaten the residents of green township and surrounding municipalities.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Jersey Shore Public Library

The library exists to provide free public library services for the needs of the residents of jersey shore and surrounding areas.

12
Chester County Hospital & Health System

The provision of management services to the chester county hospital and its affiliates.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Preschool Advantage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mill Memorial Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Foundation for Morristown Medical Center — $1,087,000 · HealthFoundation for Morristown Medical CenterST LAWRENCE CHURCH — $54,800 · OtherST LAWRENCE CHU…FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN — $50,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR …Individual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherIndividual gran…JERSEY'S BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC — $30,000 · OtherJERSEY'S BATTER…WHARTON INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMIN — $7,000 · Other+15 more — $23,700 · Other+15 moreKING'S COLLEGE — $150,000 · EducationKING'S COLLEGEPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC — $37,500 · EducationPRESCHOOL ADVA…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $1,100 · Philanthropy
Health$1,087,000Other$205,500Education$187,500Philanthropy$1,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $1,087,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetKING'S COLLEGE — $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC — $37,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMill Memorial Library — $5,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PETERS ORPHANAGE INC — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER FIRST AID SQUAD INC — $750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 1 — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Foundation for Morristown Medical Center
  • Who funds KING'S COLLEGE
  • Who funds PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC
  • Who funds Mill Memorial Library
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY
  • Who funds ST PETERS ORPHANAGE INC
  • Who funds CHESTER FIRST AID SQUAD INC
  • Who funds CHESTER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 1

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Brian & Mary Murphy Family 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.

2024
2021222324
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • St Peters Orphanage Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2024

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Brian & Mary Murphy Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Brian & Mary Murphy Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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