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· Private foundation
JOHN AND HELEN MURPHEY FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$331k
Granted FY2023
23
Grants
1
Communities
$147k
Largest
01What you fund
0164% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.
Education$891kFood & Nutrition$128kHousing & Shelter$120kArts & Culture$75kYouth Development$18kOther$701k
02FY2023 · 23 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k13 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $139k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $147k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- University of Arizona Foundation$146,500
- Primavera Foundation$20,000
- Emerge Center for Domestic Abuse$17,500
- Education Enrichment Foundation$17,500
- Planned Parenthood$17,500
- Community Food Bank$17,500
- Pima Community College Foundation$16,000
- Big Brothers Big Sisters$12,500
- Literacy Connects$10,000
- Mobile Meals of Southern Arizona$10,000
- YMCA$7,500
- Sister Jose Womens Shelter$7,500
- The Child Language Center Inc$7,500
- St Elizabeth of Hungry Clinic$2,500
- Junior League$2,500
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
$1.9M · 27 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else
27 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
27
0
Total granted
$1.9M
$0
Still filing today
41%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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 Foundation6× · 2018–2023 · $831k · revenue +8%- PFPrimavera Foundation6× · 2018–2023 · $120k · revenue +5%
- LCLiteracy Connects6× · 2018–2023 · $60k · revenue +53%
Funded once
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.
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Tucson Medical Center
Tucson medical center's mission is to deliver caring, personalized, quality healthcare to patients and their families in an environment that is supportive, education-focused and compassionate.
Health
2
Tucson Audubon Society
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
Animals
3
Habitat for Humanity Tucson Inc
Serving low income families by developing and preserving affordable housing in Southern Arizona.
Housing & Shelter
4
Arizona Community Foundation
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Philanthropy
5
Arizona Latin-American
Unclassified
6
Arizona Latino Leaders in Education
We exist to ensure that individuals from the communities most impacted by education inequities are the ones making decisions for all students
Education
7
Pro-Choice Arizona
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
Health
8
Tempe Community Action Agency Inc
TCAA's mission is based on an enduring vision of a society where every person has what they need to live a healthy, puposeful life. TCAA's mission is to eliminate poverty and advance equitable communities.
Community Improvement
9
Arizona Wins
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans.
Civil Rights
10
Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
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…
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11
Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance
A non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation, expansion and creation of Arts and Culture in Southern Arizona.
Philanthropy
12
Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
AZCIR holds powerful people and institutions accountable by exposing injustice and systemic inequities through investigative journalism.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tucson Museum of Art. 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
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$890,500Other$700,871Food & Nutrition$127,500Housing & Shelter$120,000Arts & Culture$75,000Youth Development$17,500
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 Primavera Foundation ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Literacy Connects ↗
- Who funds Pima Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Arizona Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds Mobile Meals of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds The Child Language Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Tucson Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Tucson Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds The Haven ↗
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.
Community Foundation ForAZ24.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation For · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern · Jewish Community Foundation Of · The Stonewall Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Stocker Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 organisation 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.
2024
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: The Child Language Center Inc.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +71% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 861037966 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on The Child Language Center Inc, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to John and Helen Murphey Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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