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Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$610
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,146
Organizations funded a year
12 to 18
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$239k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$15k33%
FY202412$16k17%
FY202318$11k56%
FY202217$11k47%
FY202116$11k50%
FY202018$10kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$32kEducation$14kArts & Culture$7kHuman Services$5kPhilanthropy$5kHealth$4kCivil Rights$1kAnimals$743Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Charles Ave Presbyterian Church$30,9386n/a
Christ School Inc$8,50040%
Fleur de Que$3,60031%
New Orleans Museum of Art$3,00030%
Trinity Episcopal Church$2,8703n/a
The Louise S McGehee School$1,61040%
Louisiana Childrens Museum$92110%
Louisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc$85020%
Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana$70020%
Kids Join the Fight$6591n/a
Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChrist School Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFleur de Que: $3,600 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNew Orleans Museum of Art: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Louise S McGehee School: $1,610 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLouisiana Childrens Museum: $921 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLouisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc: $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Park Conservancy: $462 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $373 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation of Presbyterian Church Educators: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHotel Hope: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Tammany Humane Society D/B/A Northshore Humane Society: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReconcile New Orleans Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPreservation Alliance of New Orleans In: $90 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Orleans Mission Inc: $70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSon of a Saint: $64 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola University: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House New Orleans: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX29.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund

How much does Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund give?
Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund reported 13 grants totaling $15,364 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Charles Ave Presbyterian Church ($31k), Christ School Inc ($9k), Fleur de Que ($4k).
Does Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, The Greater New Orleans Foundation, J Edgar Monroe Foundation.
Where is Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund based?
Michele Favrot Murphy Family Fund is based in LA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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