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Murdy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k35 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| OC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) | $10,000 |
| TUSTIN AREA COUNCIL FOR FINE ARTS | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTER KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| MORAGA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MEISTERSINGERS INC | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS | $5,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION | $4,500 |
| LAUREL HOUSE (HOPE HARBOR) | $4,500 |
| JARDIN DE AMOR SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| OAKLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL BOYS VOLLEYBALL | $3,000 |
| BRAINERD BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT | $3,000 |
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, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 8 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; $27k 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
- TATUSTIN AREA COUNCIL FOR FINE ARTS9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +35%
- OCOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE7× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +31%
- SASPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA8× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- BEBOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SCSANTA CRUZ PARENTS OF MULTIPLES CLUBone grant, 2022 · $9k
- NONo One Left Behindone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -83%
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 mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Education and Research
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopekids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kid Central. 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 99 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 Whittier College ↗
- Who funds TUSTIN AREA COUNCIL FOR FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MORAGA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Meistersingers Inc ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds SPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Master's University and Seminary ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LASSEN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy ↗
- Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds LARCHMONT SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STAND TO REASON ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds Pacific Justice Institute ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY CHABOT ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds West Seattle Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPEKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Laurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds BOLSA CHICA CONSERVANCY ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Kroger Co Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Servant Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Sempra Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Murdy 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.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
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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