How much did JOHN P MURPHY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$7.0MEducation$2.7MPhilanthropy$1.6MHealth$363kHuman Services$293kAnimals$286kYouth Development$167kCommunity Improvement$162kEmployment$57kOther$4.5M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

medical

2019

programmaticchambercommission

2020

hopeprogrammaticchamber

2021

programmaticmedia

2022

programmaticchambermedia

2023

programmaticchambermediaakroncommission

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 76 grants

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

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$54M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND$70,000
CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE$70,000
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION$60,500
CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$50,000
GREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTER$50,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$50,000
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$17M · 101 repeat orgs$443k to everyone else

101 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101

Total granted

$17M

$337k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+28%

Still filing today

72%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

TM
The Musical Arts Association
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +24%
RA
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum
4× · 2017–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +80%
GP
Group Plan Commission
4× · 2017–2023 · $605k · revenue +93%

Funded once

GA
Gilmour Academy
one grant, 2017 · $50k
FE
FRONT Exhibition Company
one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -96%
AF
Apollo's Fire
one grant, 2017 · $25k

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.

The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio

The mission of the contemporary theatre of ohio is to harness the transformational power of theatre for the current moment to inspire empathy in our community. we are responsive to community needs by producing productions for adults and…

Arts & Culture

Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts

With funding, services, and advocacy, ArtsWave fuels a more vibrant economy and connected community through the arts.

Arts & Culture

Cleveland University - Kansas City

To provide a strong, student-centered professional education with a focus in the areas of life sciences and health promotion through education, scholarship, and service.

Health

Great Lakes Center for the Arts

Educate and serve all in northern michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture

The College Club of Cleveland Foundation

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The University of Cincinnati Foundation

To inspire a community of uc and uc health supporters through the power of philanthropy.

Philanthropy

Wqed Multimedia

Wqed multimedia (wqed) champions communities across southwest pennsylvania by telling stories and creating experiences that educate, entertain and inspire our neighbors.

Arts & Culture

Literary Cleveland

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.

Education

The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati

The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…

Arts & Culture

The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati

Philanthropy

Global Cleveland

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.

Human Services

The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc

To enrich, expand, and excel in the art of dance through world-class performance, a high-caliber academy, and impactful education and engagement from local to global communities.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Leadership Center and the most unlike its peers is Western Reserve Historical Society. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1.0%1/104

the rest of the field

11%

1,108/9,714

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.

05the grantee network

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

95/96

Grantees still filing

63/96

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$6,985,000Other$4,873,850Education$2,721,700Philanthropy$1,550,000Health$363,000Human Services$293,250Animals$286,250

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.

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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH122× affinity71 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Kulas Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith 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 organisation 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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: Group Plan Commission.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +93% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 461908475 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 Group Plan Commission, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 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 18% 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to John P Murphy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John P Murphy Foundation 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.

JOHN P MURPHY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John P Murphy Foundation?

More from the funding graph

JOHN P MURPHY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John P Murphy Foundation?

More from the funding graph