· Private foundation
M W Murphy Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $636k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| ST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $100,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $51,281 |
| NEW ORLEANS BOOK FEST AT TULANE | $50,000 |
| HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION | $50,000 |
| LOUISIANA MUSIC & HERITAGE EXP | $50,000 |
| ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC | $50,000 |
| GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $29,771 |
| AURI SIMS | $29,079 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,754 |
| COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,276 |
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 (FY17–25, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 74% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
39 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND7× · 2019–2025 · $511k · revenue +46%
- STST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC5× · 2018–2025 · $335k · revenue +31%
- HEHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION6× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- HCHENDRIX COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -1%
- OSOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $29k
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF MISSISSIPPIone 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.
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
Our mission is to shape the future of finance by developing leaders whose innovation, investment excellence, and human-centered leadership advance the industry and its adjacent sectors.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The mission of the Community Foundation of Acadiana is to build legacies and improve communities by connecting generous people to the causes they care about.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
Southern Exposure (SoEx) is an artist-centered non-profit organization that is committed to supporting visual artists. Through our extensive and innovative programming, SoEx strives to experiment, collaborate and further educate while…
The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 74 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 ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds SONOMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENDRIX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Valley Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Human Needs Project Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN ↗
- Who funds Tougaloo College ↗
- Who funds DEEP SOUTH TODAY ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BACKBEAT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART ↗
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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Shell USA Company Foundation · The John & Sandra Leland Foundation · Sanderson Family Foundation · Simon Blattner Family Foundation · The Vadasz Family Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Manitou Fund · The Ford Foundation · Sonoma County Community 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 organization M W 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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