· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PULASKI ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| OUR HOUSE SHELTER | $5,000 |
| LITTLE ROCK ZOO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 76% of The Cindy and Chip Murphy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in AR; by stated purpose, 26%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PULASKI ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds THEA FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cindy and Chip Murphy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cindy and Chip Murphy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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