· Private foundation
Murphy Charitable Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $380k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Food Bank of Iowa | $145,000 |
| West Virginia University Foundation | $100,000 |
| Cyclone Regional Training Center | $85,000 |
| We Will Collective | $50,000 |
| Twin Lakes Golf Course | $32,200 |
| Wartburg College | $31,500 |
| Hope Lutheran Church | $30,000 |
| Powerhouse Foundation | $23,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $7,500 |
| Polk City Community Foundation | $2,500 |
| Children's Tumor Foundation | $1,000 |
| Waterloo Christian School | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +49%- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWA4× · 2021–2024 · $465k · revenue +9%
DRAKE UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2023 · $450k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- CICHILDSERVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +114%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- AFAnkeny First United Methodist Churcone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CYCLONE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WE WILL COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Powerhouse Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds Freed People ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds FRANK TOWN OPEN HEARTS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Murphy Charitable Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Murphy Charitable Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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