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Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust

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.

$145k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$61,980
Organizations funded a year
8 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsReligionCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$105k29%
FY20248$77k25%
FY20239$78k22%
FY202212$82k33%
FY202111$80k9%
FY202015$82k7%
FY201918$83k17%
FY201818$73k33%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$271kHuman Services$263kAnimals$112kEducation$58kFood & Nutrition$49kHealth$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kReligion$21kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pass the Word Ministry Inc$231,240858%
Welcome Home Heroes Foundation Inc$81,447726%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$37,00040%
Rogue Valley Humane Society$24,00021%
Food Bank for Monterey County$19,00060%
Grants Pass Museum of Art$17,00053%
Big Sur Health Center Inc$15,00050%
Alliance on Aging Inc$11,23350%
Ag Against Hunger$9,00035%
Samaritan's Purse$7,00010%
Guitars Not Guns Inc$5,00043%
Legal Services for Seniors$4,00030%
First Christian Church$3,0003n/a
Troops Direct$3,00010%
Inside Circle Foundation of California Public Benefit Coropoation$2,9401n/a
In the Heart of Silence$2,5001n/a
Harmony at Home$1,00010%
Carmel Valley Womens Club Foundation$50012%
Jcm United$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPass the Word Ministry Inc: $231,240 over 8y, 58% of budgetWelcome Home Heroes Foundation Inc: $81,447 over 7y, 26% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRogue Valley Humane Society: $24,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFood Bank for Monterey County: $19,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGrants Pass Museum of Art: $17,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetBig Sur Health Center Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAlliance on Aging Inc: $11,233 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAg Against Hunger: $9,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuitars Not Guns Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetLegal Services for Seniors: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTroops Direct: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarmony at Home: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarmel Valley Womens Club Foundation: $500 over 1y, 1.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Monterey Peninsula FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust

How much does Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust give?
Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust reported 8 grants totaling $144,920 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Human Services (30%), Animals (13%).
Who are Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pass the Word Ministry Inc ($231k), Welcome Home Heroes Foundation Inc ($81k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($37k).
Does Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust based?
Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust is based in CA.

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 37 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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