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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.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$470kEducation$374kArts & Culture$204kHealth$132kHousing & Shelter$66kPhilanthropy$54kFood & Nutrition$44kEnvironment$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$50,000
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA)$10,000
TUSTIN AREA COUNCIL FOR FINE ARTS$10,000
OC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION$10,000
WORLD CENTER KITCHEN$5,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS$5,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$5,000
MORAGA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
MEISTERSINGERS INC$5,000
LAUREL HOUSE (HOPE HARBOR)$4,500
ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION$4,500
JARDIN DE AMOR SCHOOL$4,000
INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT$3,000
BRAINERD BAPTIST CHURCH$3,000
OAKLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL BOYS VOLLEYBALL$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $2k → 8%PARTS AND CRAFTS: $1k → 8%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $2k → 8%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $2k → 8%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $2k → 8%SOMERVILLE YMCA: $1k → 8%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $2k → 8%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PR: $2k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PR: $2k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $4k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%FAMILY PROMISE OF ORANGE COUNTRY: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 61 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
28

Total granted

$1.3M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+7%

Still filing today

62%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    TUSTIN AREA COUNCIL FOR FINE ARTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +35%
  • OC
    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +31%
  • SA
    SPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • BE
    BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUN
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • SC
    SANTA CRUZ PARENTS OF MULTIPLES CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
  • NO
    No One Left Behind
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -83%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
University of Southern California

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…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
5
University of New Haven

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
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
Western New England University

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…

Education
11
The Scripps Research Institute

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…

Health
12
California Lutheran University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopekids Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 99 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
42/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $371,000 · OtherTUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHTUSTIN AREA COUNCIL FOR FINE ARTS: $56,000 · OtherTUSTIN AREA COUNCIL FOR FINE ARTSOC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $39,200 · OtherLASSEN PARK FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $40,500 · Other+53 more: $334,200 · Other+53 moreWhittier College: $120,000 · EducationWhittier CollegeOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $52,500 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGEThe Master's University and Seminary: $32,500 · EducationThe Master's Universit…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $32,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGELARCHMONT SCHOOLS: $22,000 · EducationLARCHMONT SCHOOLSSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $11,000 · EducationMONMOUTH COLLEGE: $11,000 · Education+8 more: $25,000 · Education+8 moreSPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $33,000 · HealthThe Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy: $25,500 · HealthFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $15,500 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $11,000 · HealthHOPEKIDS INC: $10,750 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · HealthNAMI National: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $5,000 · HealthMeistersingers Inc: $47,000 · Arts & CultureCANTARE CON VIVO: $6,800 · Arts & CultureColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $6,000 · Arts & CultureCorona Symphony Orchestra: $3,200 · Arts & CultureLigonier Ministries Inc: $25,000 · ReligionSTAND TO REASON: $21,500 · ReligionREASONS TO BELIEVE: $7,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $7,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $10,500 · Human ServicesWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNo One Left Behind: $7,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesMORAGA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $48,000 · PhilanthropyOLIVIA BLOOMFIELD FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Philanthropy
Other$870,900Education$306,000Health$110,750Arts & Culture$63,000Religion$61,000Human Services$57,000Philanthropy$53,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWhittier College: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTUSTIN AREA COUNCIL FOR FINE ARTS: $56,000 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $52,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMORAGA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $48,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetMeistersingers Inc: $47,000 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $40,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $33,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetThe Master's University and Seminary: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $32,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLASSEN PARK FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetThe Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy: $25,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetLigonier Ministries Inc: $25,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLARCHMONT SCHOOLS: $22,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $22,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND TO REASON: $21,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $15,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Justice Institute: $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWest Seattle Food Bank: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANTHONY CHABOT ELEMENTARY PTA: $11,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMONMOUTH COLLEGE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC: $10,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $10,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOLSA CHICA CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLaurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor: $10,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAGASSIZ PRESCHOOL INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $8,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREASONS TO BELIEVE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANTARE CON VIVO: $6,800 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVIA BLOOMFIELD FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJARDIN DE AMOR: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNAMI National: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCorona Symphony Orchestra: $3,200 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds West Seattle Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds ANTHONY CHABOT ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HOPEKIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOLSA CHICA CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Laurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor ↗

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.

Orange County Communi…Liberty Mutual Founda…The Kroger Co Foundat…Weingart FoundationFidelity FoundationServant FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Christian Community F…Sempra FoundationIbm International Fou…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…
Orange County Community FoundationCA17.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Murdy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Murdy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Murdy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Murdy 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 99 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home