· Private foundation
Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST CHARLES AVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $7,146 |
| FLEUR DE QUE | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,300 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE - SLA | $1,195 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $1,045 |
| KIDS JOIN THE FIGHT | $659 |
| LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL | $610 |
| FREDERICK DOUGLASS PROJECT | $515 |
| GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION | $470 |
| Individual grant recipient | $390 |
| ASSOCIATION OF PRESBYTERIAN EDUCATO | $350 |
| MONTREAT CONFERENCE CENTER | $104 |
| NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM | $80 |
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 (FY20–21, $875) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CSCHRIST SCHOOL INC4× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +165%
- TLTHE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL4× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +44%
- LRLouisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $850 · revenue +3%
Funded once
- MFMOVEMEBER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1k
- LCLOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $921 · revenue +99%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF NEW ORLEANS ORLEANSone grant, 2021 · $600
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 coalition to restore coastal louisiana (crcl) is to unite people in action to achieve a thriving, sustainable louisiana coast for all.
The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…
The new orleans town gardeners' shared appreciation of horticulture, floral design, garden history and design, and conservation all find ways to flourish, not only in our fellowship but also by enriching the environment of our historic…
The organization seeks to provide the highest quality of care in ministry to the diverse needs of louisiana's children and families by offering a variety of holistic services which promote personal growth and wholesome family life. the…
Provide undergraduate and graduate education in a variety of programs to approximately 600 undergraduate and 100 graduate students.
The mission of GNOCCS is to strengthen and support charter schools across Greater New Orleans by fostering collaboration, building capacity, and advocating for policies that enhance student achievement. Its most significant activities…
Turning tables was built by industry mentors and introduced to new orleans with its first graduating class of externs in 2019. what we found that year was a thirst for community within the hospitality industry among black and brown…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc and the most unlike its peers is S Q Rescue 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 42 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 51 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 CHRIST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FLEUR DE QUE ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds KIDS JOIN THE FIGHT ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Right to Life Federation ↗
- Who funds UNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH EDUCATORS ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds HOTEL HOPE ↗
- Who funds ST TAMMANY HUMANE SOCIETY D/B/A NORTHSHORE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds S Q Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS IN ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo 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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · The Toler Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Smallpage Family Foundation · Aimee Favrot & Michael Bell Family Fund · Thomas B Favrot Jr Family Fund · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family 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 Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund 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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