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Murphy Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$344k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

International$133kReligion$112kHuman Services$98kEducation$78kHealth$66kRecreation & Sports$32kArts & Culture$14kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $197k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPUCHIN FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION$50,000
NOVA SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY$50,000
THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA$27,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL$21,500
THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA$17,500
CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF$15,000
THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA$12,500
ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY$12,500
NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB$10,750
NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB$10,000
CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF$10,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$10,000
THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA$9,000
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 (FY23–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY: $13k → 16%RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
MD
GA
TX
FL

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$330k · 10 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$330k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
-10%

Still filing today

30%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterInternationalHealthOther

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

  • RF
    RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +26%
  • NG
    NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $32k · revenue +46%
  • NP
    NHA PROPERTIES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • PM
    PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • AC
    AN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -10%
  • HM
    HOME MISSIONERS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $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
Island Hospital Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to raise funds to support island health and its commitment to community health in and around anacortes, washington.

Unclassified
2
Irish American Heritage Center

The mission of the irish american heritage center is to nurture and strengthen irish culture and heritage through programs emphasizing irish music, literature, drama, traditional dancing, fine arts and the constructive contributions of the…

Arts & Culture
3
Coalition of Irish Immigration Centers Inc C/O Celine Kennelly

Ciic provides service to the irish/irish american community across the us in partnership with its direct service member centers, thus impacting constituents. ciic provides a national perspective of issues facing irish immigrants, while…

Human Services
4
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
5
Boston Architectural College

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

6
Aquidneck Island Planning Commission

Aipc works to preserve and improve the environment, economy and quality of life on aquidneck island to ensure that the island remains a great place to live, work, play and thrive.

Community Improvement
7
The Irish Repertory Theatre Companyinc

The irish repertory theatre (the "theatre") mission is to bring works by irish and irish american masters and contemporary playwrights to american audiences, to provide a context for understanding the contemporary irish american experience…

8
The American Institute of Architects

Vision: drive positive change through the power of design and focused activism.mission: aia inspires and empowers architects to improve society and transform the world.

9
National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter Inc

The organization promotes high professional standards and provides governance education to boards of directors and senior corporate management.

Philanthropy
10
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

11
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
12
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Ireland Fund (Dba the Ireland Funds America/the Ireland Funds) and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $128,400 · OtherTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS)NOVA SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY — $58,334 · OtherNOVA SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAPUCHIN FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherCAPUCHIN FRANCISCAN FOUNDATIONNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL — $49,500 · OtherNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITALCATHOLIC CHARITIES — $30,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF — $26,000 · OtherCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OFPONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES INC — $25,000 · Other+9 more — $52,400 · Other+9 moreRIVERSIDE FOUNDATION — $55,000 · Human ServicesRIVERSIDE FO…ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesACTION FOR B…NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB INC — $31,700 · Recreation & SportsAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBONNET HOUSE INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,000 · InternationalNHA PROPERTIES INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $2,000 · HealthKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC — $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$469,634Human Services$67,500Recreation & Sports$31,700Arts & Culture$11,000International$5,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Health$2,000Philanthropy$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $128,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRIVERSIDE FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB INC — $31,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNHA PROPERTIES INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBONNET HOUSE 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.

  • Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS)
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB INC
  • Who funds ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC
  • Who funds AN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC
  • Who funds THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC
  • Who funds NHA PROPERTIES INC
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC
  • Who funds BONNET HOUSE INC

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Murphy Family Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • Action for Boston Community Development Inc11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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

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How do I get to Murphy Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Murphy Family Charitable Trust 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 26 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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