· Private foundation
The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of THE DAVID & PHYLLIS MURPHY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $159k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY ONE NORTH IOWA HOSPICE | $50,000 |
| NORTH IA-SOUTHERN MN VETERAN STAND | $35,000 |
| MASON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL ED FOUND | $30,000 |
| YMCA | $25,000 |
| RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE INC | $24,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IOWA | $23,400 |
| SUNBEAM CHRISTIAN CHILDCARE PRESCHO | $22,200 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IA | $20,000 |
| MASON CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF MASON CITY INC | $14,300 |
| CITY OF MASON CITY | $14,200 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH IOWA | $13,500 |
| 43 NORTH IOWA | $12,000 |
| FRIENDS OF 457 CANNONBALL EXPRESS | $11,000 |
| JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k 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
- FIFREEDOM INN HIS GRACE MINISTRY2× · 2023–2025 · $71k · revenue +26% · 46% of their budget
- CKCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $69k · revenue +128%
- NINORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- MOMERCY ONE NORTH IOWA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $15k
- NINORTH IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +20%
- COCITY OF MASON CITY - NORRIS YOUTH COMPLEXone grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
Enhance the economy of mason city and promote the north iowa area as a destination for overnight visitors.
The organization endeavors to provide safe emergency and transitional shelter and meals to homeless adults along with resource assistance to move clients beyond homelessness and toward independent living.
To provide low-cost housing to eligible families.
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…
Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.
To empower individuals with disabilities to control their lives.
Ministry to those in need in Lucas County, Iowa
Humane society for animal care
The organization assists individuals and families with economic hardships.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Iowa Transition and Employment Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Freedom Inn His Grace Ministry. 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 38 years old; the field is 31. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 88 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 FREEDOM INN HIS GRACE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF MASON CITY INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of North Iowa ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT ON THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds MASON CITY COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Elderbridge Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds One Vision ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL IOWA AG IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds STEBENS CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA BAND FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASON CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable 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.
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