· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| St Athanasius | $15,000 |
| Holy Cross | $15,000 |
| St Vinvent DePaul Regional Seminary | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Men of Melchizedek | $10,000 |
| Ave Maria University | $10,000 |
| Habitat for Childrens Ministry | $5,000 |
| Bella Health & Wellness | $5,000 |
| St Sebastian Church | $3,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $2,500 |
| Covenant House | $2,500 |
| Food for the Poor | $2,500 |
| Discalced Carmelite Nuns | $2,500 |
| Catholics Come Home | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFStudents for Life of America Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +18%
- MOMEN OF MELCHIZEDEK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +48%
- AMAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC4× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- SJST JOAN OF ARCone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SVST VINCENT DEPAULone grant, 2023 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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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.
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How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph and Alberta Murphy Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph and Alberta Murphy Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
- Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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