· Private foundation
M W Murphy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| LOUISIANA MUSIC & HERITAGE EXP | $50,000 |
| ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC | $50,000 |
| HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION | $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 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +47%
- 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
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.
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.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 74 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 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 Sonoma Valley Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds HENDRIX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Human Needs Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization M W Murphy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M W Murphy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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