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Sheila Murphy Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx

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.

$132k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$388kHuman Services$372kYouth Development$112kRecreation & Sports$70kFood & Nutrition$49kEmployment$25kEducation$18kPhilanthropy$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
$7,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMPOWER HOUSE$18,000
CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER$18,000
THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES$13,500
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS$12,000
HAND IN HAND$9,000
FAMILY RESOURCES INC$8,500
RIVER BEND FOOD BANK$8,500
NEW KINGDOM TRAILRIDERS$7,000
MOLINE FOUNDATION$6,666
BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$6,500
Individual grant recipient$6,000
ONE EIGHTY$6,000
YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU$6,000
YOUTH HOPE$4,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY IOWA & NW$2,000
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 (FY20–25, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS: $6k → 16%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 14%EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS: $5k → 16%EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS: $3k → 16%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $55k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $25k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $20k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $15k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $10k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $7k → 15%HAND IN HAND: $9k → 12%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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$928k · 15 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$928k
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+12%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEmploymentFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • BF
    BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $132k · revenue +51%
  • Y
    YOUTHHOPE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $77k · revenue +44%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS
    3× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • EA
    EMPOWERING ABILITIES
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -1%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +12%
  • HH
    HUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +21%

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
Huron Area Center for Independence

Mission: supporting people to participate as essential members of their community.

Employment
2
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
3
Reach for Your Potential Inc

Reach for your potential, inc is a provider of adult daycare services and rehabilitation/housing of disabled individuals serving approximately 135 individuals from iowa city and the surrounding communities.

Housing & Shelter
4
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…

Unclassified
5
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
6
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
7
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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8
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.

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9
The Bridge Family Center Inc

To foster the courage and strength in children and families to meet life's challenges and build fulfilling lives serving new haven, hartford and tolland counties.

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10
Youth Homes

The mission of youth homes is to help every youth feel safe, have a sense of belonging, and find a place to call home.

Human Services
11
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.

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12
Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa Inc

Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany for Children & Families and the most unlike its peers is Brantley Francis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 51. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number11%0%<5yr7%12%5–10yr12%20%10–20yr11%28%20–35yr17%24%35–55yr42%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value11%0%<5yr7%11%5–10yr12%6%10–20yr11%12%20–35yr17%27%35–55yr42%44%55yr+

The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
8%
216/2,674

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
12/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER — $153,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTERFAMILY RESOURCES INC — $141,550 · OtherFAMILY RESOURCES INCVera French Foundation — $100,000 · OtherVera French FoundationYOUTHHOPE — $76,500 · OtherYOUTHHOPESPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS — $57,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOISTHE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES — $39,000 · OtherTHE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES+13 more — $83,542 · Other+13 moreBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES — $131,500 · Human ServicesBETHANY FOR CHIL…Every Child Succeeds — $13,700 · Human ServicesEvery Child Succ…HAND IN HAND — $9,000 · Human ServicesHAND IN HAND+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesBRANTLEY FRANCIS FOUNDATION — $67,000 · HealthBRANTLEY FRA…EMPOWERING ABILITIES — $25,000 · HealthEMPOWERING A…Empower House — $18,000 · HealthEmpower Hous…CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY IOWA & NW ILLINOIS — $7,000 · HealthCANCER SUPPO…+1 more — $4,000 · HealthTHE 180 ZONE — $46,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR — $48,500 · Food & NutritionDRESS FOR SUCCESS QUAD CITIES — $25,000 · EmploymentSTEAM ON WHEELS — $12,500 · Education
Other$650,592Human Services$159,200Health$121,000Youth Development$66,000Food & Nutrition$48,500Employment$25,000Education$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFAMILY RESOURCES INC — $141,550 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES — $131,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetVera French Foundation — $100,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetYOUTHHOPE — $76,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBRANTLEY FRANCIS FOUNDATION — $67,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS — $57,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR — $48,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 180 ZONE — $46,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEMPOWERING ABILITIES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS QUAD CITIES — $25,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmpower House — $18,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetEvery Child Succeeds — $13,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEAM ON WHEELS — $12,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY QUAD CITIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAND IN HAND — $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW KINGDOM TRAILRIDERS — $7,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY IOWA & NW ILLINOIS — $7,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMOLINE FOUNDATION — $6,666 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Service Bureau — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROCK ISLAND-MILAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnity House of Davenport Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

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.

Quad Cities Community…Quad Cities Golf Clas…Scott County Regional…Moline FoundationThe Rock Island Commu…Doris & Victor Day Fo…United Way Quad CitiesMary Iva Gittins Knou…Harold R Bechtel Char…Dorothy & Bud Lundahl…Modern Woodmen of Ame…Rauch Family Foundati…
Quad Cities Community FoundationIA38.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Scott County Regional Authority · Moline Foundation · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · United Way Quad Cities · Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Dorothy & Bud Lundahl Charitable Trust · Modern Woodmen of America · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc

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 Sheila Murphy Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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