· Private foundation
The Cindy and Chip Murphy 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $535k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST | $535,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| THE ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE | $35,000 |
| ARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ASSISTANCE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| THEA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LITTLE ROCK ZOO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PULASKI ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| OUR HOUSE SHELTER | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY21–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 76% of The Cindy and Chip Murphy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in AR; read by stated purpose it is 26% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ARARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +35%
- PAPULASKI ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $68k · revenue +35%
- TFTHEA FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- ACARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AUXILIARYone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +1%
- UWUAMS WINTHROP P ROCKEFELLER CANCER INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $10k
- WPWILDWOOD PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2022 · $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.
Advocate for educational professionals and unite our members and the state to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
The purpose of the arkansas humanities council is to promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the humanities in arkansas. to achieve its purpose, the council awards grants through a competitive application process to nonprofit…
The mission is to provide a rigourous academic program with a purposed integration of the arts. challenging our students academically while providing them with an arts enchanced curriculum.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Obtain optimal health & well-being for all children in alabama, and to provide educational and practice support for its membership so the highest quality of medical care can be achieved.
Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.
Collects member dues which are used to advance medical knowledge, elevate the standards of medical education, and secure enactment and enforcement of just laws relating to the field of medicine.
Education & leadership training to improve patient care.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pulaski Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PULASKI ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Accademia Dell' Arte ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Inc ↗
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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Brown Foundation · C Louis and Mary C Cabe Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Arvest Foundation · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 The Cindy and Chip Murphy 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.