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Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PASS THE WORD MINISTRY$61,980
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN JOAQUIN$40,000
ROGUE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY$20,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$10,000
FRIENDS OF JOSEPHINE CTY S & R$5,000
CANINE ANGELS$3,000
INSIDE CIRCLE FOUNDATION$2,940
Individual grant recipient$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $94k) 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.

area typical 10%WELCOME HOME HEROES FOUNDATION: $18k → 12%WELCOME HOME HEROES FOUNDATION: $17k → 12%WELCOME HOME HEROES FOUNDATION: $13k → 12%HARMONY AT HOME: $1k → 12%WELCOME HOME HEROES FOUNDATION: $13k → 12%WELCOME HOME HEROES FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%WELCOME HOME HEROES FOUNDATION: $7k → 12%WELCOME HOME HEROES FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%ALLIANCE ON AGING: $3k → 12%ALLIANCE ON AGING: $3k → 12%ALLIANCE ON AGING: $2k → 12%ALLIANCE ON AGING: $2k → 12%ALLIANCE ON AGING: $1k → 12%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$660k · 22 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
11

Total granted

$660k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
0%

Still filing today

45%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Human ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • PT
    PASS THE WORD MINISTRY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $231k · revenue +231% · 58% of their budget
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $37k · revenue +83%
  • RV
    ROGUE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY
    2× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +261%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SEARCH AND RESCUE
    one grant, 2021 · $16k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue 0%
  • TD
    Troops Direct
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -14%
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
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
2
Monterey County Interfaith Alliance
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3
Siskiyou Community Food Bank

We provided free healthy food to low-income families and individuals in need.

Food & Nutrition
4
The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley

The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.

Housing & Shelter
5
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
6
Victory Mission

To operate and maintain a rescue mission at Salinas, California provide Job training

Human Services
7
Meals On Wheels of the Monterey Peninsula Inc

To empower seniors, disabled adults, veterans, and other under served populations to remain independent by nourishing their bodies, minds, and spirits, and drive out hunger and isolation in our region.

Food & Nutrition
8
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
9
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services

Dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.

—
10
Meals On Wheels-Santa Maria Valley Inc

Deliver meals and provide informal health and welfare visits to disabled and elderly clients in the Santa Maria Valley.

—
11
West Contra Costa County Meals On Wheels

Enable frail seniors to maintain their independence at home by providing them with high quality, nutritious meals that are cost effective, prepared in West Contra Costa County, delivered by caring drivers and administered by local…

Food & Nutrition
12
Harm Reduction Coalition of Santa Cruz County

Harm Reduction Coalition of Santa Cruz County operates a state-authorized Syringe Service Program. This program distributes complimentary syringes, sharps containers, wound care items, etc. to low-income and homeless individuals in our…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Inside Circle Foundation of California Public Benefit Coropoation. 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

18 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. 18 of the 37 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PASS THE WORD MINISTRY INC: $231,240 · Human ServicesPASS THE WORD MINISTRY INCWELCOME HOME HEROES FOUNDATION INC: $81,447 · Human ServicesWELCOME HOME HEROES FOUNDATION INCALLIANCE ON AGING INC: $11,233 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesSAN JOAQUIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $298,993 · PhilanthropySAN JOAQUIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION I…+3 more: $10,247 · PhilanthropyJOSEPHINE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $58,455 · OtherJOSEPHINE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTERCANINE ANGELS: $32,328 · OtherCANINE ANGELSCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MONTEREY CO: $29,747 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MONTEREY…MEALS ON WHEELS: $19,947 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELSFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $19,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTYSHELTER FRIENDS OF JOSEPHINE CO: $18,000 · OtherSHELTER FRIENDS OF JOSEPHINE COFRIENDS OF SEARCH AND RESCUE: $16,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF SEARCH AND RESCUEFRIENDS OF JOSEPHINE CTY S & R: $15,000 · OtherBig Sur Health Center Inc: $15,000 · OtherJOE'S PLACE MINISTRY: $12,500 · Other+15 more: $54,093 · Other+15 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $37,000 · EducationROGUE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $24,000 · AnimalsGrants Pass Museum of Art: $17,000 · Arts & CultureSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $7,000 · Religion
Human Services$324,920Philanthropy$309,240Other$290,070Education$37,000Animals$24,000Arts & Culture$17,000Religion$7,000

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 budgetSAN JOAQUIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $298,993 over 8y, 0.9% of 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
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 SAN JOAQUIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PASS THE WORD MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds WELCOME HOME HEROES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROGUE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Grants Pass Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds Big Sur Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE ON AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds AG AGAINST HUNGER ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GUITARS NOT GUNS INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS ↗
  • Who funds Troops Direct ↗
  • Who funds INSIDE CIRCLE FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT COROPOATION ↗
  • Who funds HARMONY AT HOME ↗
  • Who funds CARMEL VALLEY WOMENS CLUB 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.

Monterey Peninsula Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ona E Murphy & Robert E Murphy Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Grants Pass Museum of Art: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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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By state
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