· Private foundation
Byrne and Pamela Murphy Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $890k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOME | $250,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $240,000 |
| REFED INC | $150,000 |
| WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL | $125,000 |
| BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC (BBAR) | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA-DARDEN SCHOOL-ROBERT F BRUNER FUND FOR TRANSFORMATIO | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA- BYRNE AND PAMELA MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP- ENDOWMENT | $100,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| ALIBI PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NORTH HAVEN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA- DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $12,114 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY-40TH REUNION | $10,000 |
| NORTH HAVEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA- DARDEN ANNUAL FUND | $10,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $440k · revenue +10%- BBBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC2× · 2022–2024 · $250k · revenue +9%
- RIREFED INC3× · 2022–2024 · $220k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- NHNORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSINGone grant, 2023 · $111k · revenue +20%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2023 · $25k
- NHNORTH HAVEN LIBRARY - CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds REFED INC ↗
- Who funds Watermans Community Center ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Community Betterment ↗
- Who funds NEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds THE NORMANDY INSTITUTE ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Angel Foundation · Weld Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Byrne and Pamela Murphy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Byrne and Pamela Murphy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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