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Brian & Mary Murphy Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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

area typical 7%MILLL 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%MILL 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 SERVICE INC: $15k → 4%SURFLIGHT THEATRE: $500 → 11%JERSEY'S BATTERED WOMEN'S: $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%JERSEY'S BATTERED WOMEN'S: $10k → 4%FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN: $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 VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $250 → 4%CHESTER FIRE COMPANY: $250 → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -27% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Preschool Advantage Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brian & Mary Murphy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brian & Mary Murphy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • St Peters Orphanage Inc: 1% 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, FY20–24
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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