· Private foundation
John P Murphy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $694k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $355k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $355,000 |
| THE MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION | $243,000 |
| CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $170,000 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $122,500 |
| CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORP | $80,000 |
| THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND | $75,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $75,000 |
| CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE | $70,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $70,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION | $60,500 |
| GREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTER | $50,000 |
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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 +29% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
95 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 8 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- TMThe Musical Arts Association8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +45%
- TRTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC4× · 2017–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +80%
- GPGROUP PLAN COMMISSION4× · 2017–2023 · $605k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- FEFRONT EXHIBITION COMPANYone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -96%
- GAGILMOUR ACADEMY INCone grant, 2017 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.
Non-profit organization dedicated to presenting frees concert of Classical Music
Cleveland arts education consortiums mission is to promote and strengthen arts education in northeast ohio and advocate on behalf of arts learning for people of all ages and circumstances.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Opera columbus enriches central ohio by educating, enlightening, and entertaining people of all ages and backgrounds through the live music theatre experience by employing a diverse and far-flung supply of creative talent, ideas and…
Music Performance - Performing free concerts of new symphonic music
Balletmet will celebrate dance by engaging the community through quality performances, instruction, education programs, and creation of new work.
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
We use the power of live performance art to create a unified expression of joy that is shared within our community through engaged educational programming, enhanced corporate partnerships, and inspired civic givebacks. see schedule o for…
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
To promote the rule of law and the legal profession by supporting, empowering and celebrating our members and the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assembly for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is International Partners in Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
103 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. 103 of the 135 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 The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GROUP PLAN COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds APOLLO'S FIRE BAROQUE ↗
- Who funds BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT CHARITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds PIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND BALLET ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS DANCE THEATER ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY OHIO ↗
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: Kulas Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn
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 P Murphy 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 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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