· Private foundation
John and Helen Murphey Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $127k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Arizona Foundation | $127,000 |
| Community Food Bank | $20,000 |
| Primavera Foundation | $20,000 |
| Pima Community College Foundation | $16,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $15,000 |
| Emerge Center for Domestic Abuse | $15,000 |
| Education Enrichment Foundation | $10,000 |
| Mobile Meals of Southern Arizona | $10,000 |
| Literacy Connects | $10,000 |
| YMCA | $7,500 |
| Arizona Theatre Company | $7,500 |
| Sister Jose Womens Shelter | $7,500 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $5,000 |
| St Elizabeth of Hungry Clinic | $2,500 |
| Tucson Symphony Society | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
University of Arizona Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +109%- TPThe Primavera Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +54%
- PCPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +395%
Funded once
- CTCAREGIVER TRAINING INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
TCAA's mission is to eliminate poverty and advance equitable communities. This mission is achieved through the delivery of comprehensive human services programs designed to improve housing stability, increase food security, improve health…
Our vision is a community where every child receives a high-quality education from birth to career, every adult has the opportunity to thrive financailly and in the workplace, and every older person can retire and age with dignity and…
To elevate the teaching profession in southern arizona by empowering and celebrating prek-12 teacher excellence through community engagement and investment.
To improve greater tucson and the state of arizona by bringing together resources and leadership to enhance the economic climate and quality of life in our communities.
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
The Tucson Metro Chamber is a membership-based business advocacy and community development organization that represents 1,500 businesses employing more than 160,000 employees in Tucson and Pima County. The Tucson Metro Chamber is committed…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The organization is committed to unleashing the power of music by providing high-quality music education and experiences that are affordable and accessible. its vision is to be a leader in music education with a focus on creative youth…
CelebracinArtstica de lasAmricas(CALA)Alliancecollaborates with artists and arts organizations to nurture artistic talent, focusing onartistsfrom the Latin American diaspora.Through innovative artist residencies, commissions, community…
Svp tucson is an ever expanding community of engaged philanthropists dedicated to building the capacity, strength and impact of nonprofits in addressing social problems. we accomplish this through: thoughtful and strategic investments and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Connects and the most unlike its peers is City Center for Collaborative Learning. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 28 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 University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds Arizona Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds Sister Jose Women's Center ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD LANGUAGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds Tucson Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds City Center for Collaborative Learning ↗
- Who funds CAREGIVER TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · The Gordon Foundation · The Stocker Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Iverson Family Foundation · The Stonewall 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 John and Helen Murphey Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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