Iowa · Private foundation
The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $519k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 47 | $519k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $511k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $525k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $118k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $74k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $50k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $45k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $70k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freedom Inn His Grace Ministry | $71,000 | 2 | 46% |
| Community Kitchen of North Ia Inc | $69,400 | 3 | 6% |
| North Iowa Transition and Employment Services Inc | $64,500 | 8 | 0% |
| River City Sculptures on Parade In | $61,500 | 4 | 23% |
| Macnider Art Museum | $54,200 | 6 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa | $53,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels of Mason City Inc | $45,300 | 3 | 27% |
| Humane Society of North Iowa | $43,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Wright on the Park Inc | $39,500 | 3 | 11% |
| Mason City Community Theatre | $36,000 | 3 | 29% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · Farrer Endowment Foundation · First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Tomson Family Foundation Trust · United Way of North Central Iowa · Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Inc · John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Blanche Carey Martin Charitable Tr · Stratford Foundation · Cft Foundation
How this is measured
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About The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation
- How much does The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation give?
- The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $519,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Education (14%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Freedom Inn His Grace Ministry ($71k), Community Kitchen of North Ia Inc ($69k), North Iowa Transition and Employment Services Inc ($65k).
- Does The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation, Farrer Endowment Foundation, First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation based?
- The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation is based in IA.
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