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Joseph and Alberta Murphy Charitable Foundation

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.

$123k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$325kEducation$78kHuman Services$50kCivil Rights$50kFood & Nutrition$36kHealth$28kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
$3,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$91k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$20,000
St Athanasius$15,000
Holy Cross$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Men of Melchizedek$10,000
Ave Maria University$10,000
St Vinvent DePaul Regional Seminary$10,000
Habitat for Childrens Ministry$5,000
Bella Health & Wellness$5,000
St Sebastian Church$3,000
Food for the Poor$2,500
Covenant House$2,500
Catholics Come Home$2,500
Catholic Charities$2,500
Discalced Carmelite Nuns$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Men of Melchizedek: $10k → 10%OPUS BONO SACERDOTII: $5k → 21%MEN OF MELCHIZEDEK: $8k → 10%OPUS BONO SACERDOTII: $5k → 21%MEN OF MELCHIZEDEK: $8k → 10%OPUS BONO SACERDOTII: $5k → 21%MEN OF MELCHIZEDEK: $8k → 10%MEN OF MELCHIZEDEK: $7k → 10%MEN OF MELCHIZEDEK: $7k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
OH
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VA
MD
TN
OK
GA
FL

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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$573k · 24 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
2

Total granted

$573k
$10k

Still filing today

42%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalCivil RightsEducationReligionHealthOther

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

  • SF
    Students for Life of America Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • MO
    MEN OF MELCHIZEDEK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +48%
  • AM
    AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • SV
    ST VINCENT DEPAUL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • SJ
    ST JOAN OF ARC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

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.

1
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

2
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

3
Adom Health Foundation Inc

The mission of adom health foundation, inc. is to provides compassionate and philanthropic support for the health care ministry of the congregation of the sisters of st. joseph of st. augustine, florida, to the uninsured and underserved in…

Health
4
Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion
5
Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc

Catholic medical mission board (cmmb) is an international, faith-based nonprofit that believes in healthier lives worldwide. we work in partnerships globally to deliver locally sustainable, quality health solutions, (continued on schedule…

International
6
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

7
Global Health Ministry

We, global health ministry and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. global health ministry is a member of trinity health.

International
8
Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services Inc

We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…

9
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
10
Samaritan's Purse

Samaritan's purse is a nondenominational evangelical christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. since 1970, samaritan's purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war,…

Religion
11
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
12
St Jude House Inc

MISSION - ST. JUDE HOUSE, Inc. (St. Jude House) IS a family violence prevention center and shelter; our mission is TO CELEBRATE LIFE AND SERVE WITH JOY. Vision - St. Jude House is a catalyst in Northwest Indiana for the prevention,…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Children Ministries Inc. 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 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST ATHANASIUS — $90,000 · OtherST ATHANASIUSST JOHN FISHER RC CHURCH — $55,000 · OtherST JOHN FISHER RC CHURCHCARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL INC — $35,000 · OtherCARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL INCST VINCENT DEPAUL REGIONAL SEMINARY — $30,000 · OtherST VINCENT DEPAUL REGIONAL SEMINARYIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDISCALCED CARMELITE NUNS — $22,500 · OtherDISCALCED CARMELITE NUNSIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherHoly Cross — $15,000 · OtherST PAUL CENTER — $14,500 · Other+12 more — $89,000 · Other+12 moreMEN OF MELCHIZEDEK INC — $46,500 · Human ServicesMEN OF MELCHIZEDE…COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE FL…OPUS BONO SACERDOTII — $15,000 · Human ServicesOPUS BONO SACERDO…Habitat for Children Ministries Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesHabitat for Child…Students for Life of America Inc — $50,000 · Civil RightsFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $22,502 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $13,500 · InternationalSISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC — $2,000 · InternationalAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC — $35,000 · EducationCatholics Come Home Inc — $12,500 · ReligionST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 · Health
Other$401,000Human Services$96,500Civil Rights$50,000International$38,002Education$35,000Religion$12,500Health$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetStudents for Life of America Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEN OF MELCHIZEDEK INC — $46,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $22,502 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC — $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOPUS BONO SACERDOTII — $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHabitat for Children Ministries Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCatholics Come Home Inc — $12,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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 Students for Life of America Inc
  • Who funds MEN OF MELCHIZEDEK INC
  • Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC
  • Who funds OPUS BONO SACERDOTII
  • Who funds Habitat for Children Ministries Inc
  • Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds Catholics Come Home Inc
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds SISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Joseph and Alberta Murphy Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc1% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc1% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
  • Ave Maria University Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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