· Private foundation
Murphy Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,030,002 |
| SPARKY- Y YOUTH LABS | $30,696 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $18,017 |
| JXTA | $12,000 |
| MIGIZI | $11,715 |
| GLENMERCY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ROSSLAND SUMMIT SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| FAMILY ACTION NETWORK | $4,000 |
| SANCTUARY CHILDREN'S HOUSE | $4,000 |
| FRUITVALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| MINNESOTA SLED HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| NORTHSTAR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS BC | $2,758 |
| GREATER TRAIL MINER HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $2,758 |
| ST MICHAEL'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $1,750 |
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 US giving — 23% of grant dollars ($621k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 77% that went abroad ($2.0M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of your 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.
Beyond the US — 77% of all-years giving ($2.0M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- FSFITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2021 · $80k · revenue +30%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +87%
- NCNORTHSTAR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TVTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -35%
- SUSTAND UP FOR KIDS CHICAGOone grant, 2017 · $11k
- FAFREE ARTS ON MINNESOTAone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 function of the north dakota university system foundation is to support, enrich, advance and improve higher education in the state of north dakota, and to assist its students, faculty and staff.
Fisk university produces graduates from diverse backgrounds with the integrity and intellect required for substantive contributions to society. our curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts. our faculty and administrators emphasize the…
Facing Foster Care in Alaska (FFCA) is a nonprofit dedicated to improving the foster care system, developing leadership skills among current and former foster youth ages 15-24, and creating a network of peer support for foster youth…
The mission of the minnesota fastbreak foundation is to have a meaningful impact in the communities where we live, work and play.
To create, encourage, and promote center right policies based on the principles of freedom, limited government, American exceptionalism, and strong policies in the state of MN, and to engage in any lawful act or activity for which…
Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota is a citizens' group that advocates for improvements in Minnesota's child welfare system. Our mission is to ensure that Minnesota has a child welfare system in which children are safe and reach their…
Primary Exempt Purpose- Protect Minnesota Advocacy fund supports the mission of Protect Minnesota to prevent gun violence through legislative actions community education and fudn development.
To provide services so children and families have opportunities to lead productive lives.
Our vision: a future where all youth have access to a quality coach and mentor, encouraging them to chase their dreams
To provide support and advocacy to families of children. build confidence in parents by providing the necessary tools for appropriate decisions and actions. informing parents of their rights and to assist in problem resolution.
Family Network on Disabilities is a national network of individuals of all ages who may be at-risk, have disabilities, or have special needs and their families, professionals, and concerned citizens. The mission of family Network on…
Prevent and end homelessness for families by engaging faith-based congregations, volunteers and donors.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Action Network and the most unlike its peers is Dream Builders 4 Equity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 42 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 FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR ↗
- Who funds MN WILD SLED PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA NEONATAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ACTION NETWORK ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 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.
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.