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The Cecily & David Murphy Majerus Foundation at a glance

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The Cecily & David Murphy Majerus Foundation

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.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$105kHealth$100kEnvironment$90kFood & Nutrition$84kHuman Services$77kCivil Rights$67kCrime & Legal$58kInternational$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Environmental Resource Center$15,000
Resurrection Project$10,000
Ocean Conservancy$10,000
Neighboorhood Villages$7,500
Ellis Early Learning$7,500
New Directions$7,000
Everytown for Gun Safety$7,000
Community Help in Park Slope$6,000
N Street Village$5,000
Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition$5,000
Brennan Center$5,000
Friendship Place$5,000
National Immigration Law Center$5,000
High Mighty Therapeutic Riding$4,667
Camp Friendship$4,667
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Gulf Coast Kids House: $4k → 16%CCAI Adoptive Parents Council: $4k → 8%Family Resource Center: $5k → 14%Covenant House: $5k → 23%Boston Healthcare for the Homeless: $8k → 16%Gulf Coast Kids House: $4k → 16%Gulf Coast Kids House: $3k → 16%Community Help in Park Slope: $6k → 20%DC Diaper Bank: $2k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
TN
DC
LA
TX
FL
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$517k · 27 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
42

Total granted

$517k
$154k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+13%

Still filing today

74%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionEducationHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther
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

  • ND
    NEW DIRECTIONS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $59k · revenue +58%
  • FP
    Friendship Place
    8× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +120%
  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $53k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +26%
  • LI
    Lutheran Immigration Refuge Ser
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +54%
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
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
4
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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5
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
6
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
7
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
8
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
9
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
10
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
11
Us Digital Response

U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Friendship Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ccai Adoptive Parents Council. 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

54 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. 54 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
33/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW DIRECTIONS INC: $59,000 · OtherNEW DIRECTIONS INCAlameda County Comm Food Bank: $23,000 · OtherAlameda County Comm Food BankENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherNAACP Legal Defense Education Fun: $12,667 · OtherSTRIDES FOR PEACE INC: $15,167 · OtherGLIDE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherCAMP FRIENDSHIP INC: $12,167 · Other+42 more: $187,500 · Other+42 moreFriendship Place: $52,500 · Housing & ShelterFriendship Plac…The Resurrection Project: $37,667 · Housing & ShelterThe Resurrectio…CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $46,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONS…THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $12,666 · EnvironmentTHE ALLIAN…FUND TEXAS CHOICE: $6,500 · EnvironmentFUND TEXAS…The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $20,166 · Human ServicesThe YMCA o…GULF COAST KID'S HOUSE INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesGULF COAST…BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEA…COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY …COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT H…FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER D/B/A ADOPTION CENTER OF ILLINOIS: $4,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY RES…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,000 · Human ServicesAmerican N…CCAI ADOPTIVE PARENTS COUNCIL: $3,667 · Human ServicesCCAI ADOPT…+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $52,500 · Crime & LegalREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $32,000 · Food & NutritionFarm to Pantry: $10,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $5,000 · Food & NutritionRETHINK FOOD NYC INC: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,000 · Food & NutritionCARLETON COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationSonoma County Bicycle Coalition: $8,000 · EducationNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC: $7,500 · EducationELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC: $7,500 · EducationAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $4,334 · Education
Other$354,501Housing & Shelter$98,167Environment$65,166Human Services$63,833Crime & Legal$52,500Food & Nutrition$51,000Education$37,334

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW DIRECTIONS INC: $59,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFriendship Place: $52,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $52,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $46,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Resurrection Project: $37,667 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $32,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $20,166 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTRIDES FOR PEACE INC: $15,167 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $12,666 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FRIENDSHIP INC: $12,167 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGULF COAST KID'S HOUSE INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTransformca dba Transform: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY WORKS INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFarm to Pantry: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHigh & Mighty Therapeutic Riding: $9,167 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC: $9,166 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSonoma County Bicycle Coalition: $8,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $7,001 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND TEXAS CHOICE: $6,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUKRAINE HOUSE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER D/B/A ADOPTION CENTER OF ILLINOIS: $4,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $4,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOTERIDERS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCCAI ADOPTIVE PARENTS COUNCIL: $3,667 over 1y, 59% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $3,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $3,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $3,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOFF THEIR PLATE INC: $3,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRETHINK FOOD NYC INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConservation Nation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

ImpactassetsincThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Annenberg Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…The Chicago Community…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal Fund
ImpactassetsincMD15.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Annenberg Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund

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 The Cecily & David Murphy Majerus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cecily & David Murphy Majerus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Villages Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Ellis Early Learning Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Gulf Coast Kid's House Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Cecily & David Murphy Majerus Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 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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