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Morley - Murphy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$102kHuman Services$83kHealth$75kEnvironment$55kArts & Culture$54kEducation$27kAnimals$25kHousing & Shelter$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$728k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF BROWN COUNTY$10,000
CURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC$10,000
GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA$6,000
THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
UW GREEN BAY DON AND PHYLLIS HARDEN ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP$5,000
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$1,000
HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY$1,000
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN$1,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $10k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $10k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $10k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $5k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $5k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $5k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $5k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $500 → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA: $6k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $6k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$402k · 17 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$402k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+29%

Still filing today

82%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentAnimalsEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • GG
    GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +43%
  • TB
    THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +483%
  • WC
    WEIDNER CENTER PRESENTS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue ×34 · 94% of their budget

Funded once

  • WC
    WEIDNER CENTER - PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • BAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -32%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RESTORE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy
2
United Way Manitowoc County Inc

United way's mission is to improve lives.

Philanthropy
3
Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc

The mission of the greater green bay community foundation, inc. is to inspire and encourage charitable giving in northeast wisconsin by connecting caring people with solutions that strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
4
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
5
Barry County United Way

None

Philanthropy
6
Greater Green Bay Chamber of Commerce Inc

To strengthen member businesses, enhance economic and workforce development, and improve the quality of life in our community and region.

7
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
8
United Way of Southwest Michigan

United way of southwest michigan works in berrien, cass, and van buren counties to sustain a united community where everyone contributes, belongs, and thrives.

Philanthropy
9
United Way of Greater Central Michigan

United way provides leadership and resources to improve the quality of life in our community by generating revenue, creating awareness and engaging volunteers.

10
University of Wisconsin - River Falls Foundation Inc

An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…

Education
11
United Way Blackhawk Region Inc

Improving lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities.

Philanthropy
12
West Bend Community Foundation Inc
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of West Michigan United Way and the most unlike its peers is United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF BROWN COUNTY — $80,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF BROWN COUNTYTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · OtherTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INCSALVATION ARMY — $10,500 · OtherWEIDNER CENTER - PERFORMING ARTS — $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $10,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $7,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC — $7,500 · Other+11 more — $36,000 · Other+11 moreGREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC — $68,500 · Human ServicesGREATER GREEN BAY …+2 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentGREEN BAY BOTA…BAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentBAIRD CREEK PR…CURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC — $30,000 · EmploymentWEIDNER CENTER PRESENTS INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $15,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE BAY BEACH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC — $10,000 · AnimalsUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC — $19,500 · Education
Other$206,000Human Services$70,500Environment$55,000Employment$30,000Arts & Culture$30,000Animals$25,000Education$19,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC — $68,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $50,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWEIDNER CENTER PRESENTS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 94% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC — $19,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BAY BEACH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOWE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBELLIN COLLEGE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

George Kress Foundation IncWI34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George Kress Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Elizabeth B and Philip J Hendrickson Foundation Ltd · Byron L Walter Family Trust Xxxxx0002 · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Schreiber Foods Foundation Inc · Bernard E and Alyce G Dahlin Foundation Inc · Wochinske Family Foundation Inc · Schneider National Foundation Inc

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 Morley - 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Morley - Murphy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Morley - Murphy Foundation 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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