· Private foundation
The Julie & Dennis Murphy Family 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE JULIE & DENNIS MURPHY FAMILY 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUSAN G KOMEN RACE FOR THE CURE | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT | $3,000 |
| CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $2,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METROWEST | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE HEALING GARDEN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| VERMONT FOOD BANK | $250 |
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 (FY17–23, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 5 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; $10k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC7× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +66%
- TGThe George Washington University5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +22%
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- GHGROTON HILL MUSIC CENTERone grant, 2023 · $50k
- JFJIMMY FUND DANA FARBERone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TOTOWN OF BOLTONone grant, 2023 · $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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is Adam Bullen Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 58 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 176 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 SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds MINUTE MAN ARC FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HUDSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ADVOCACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
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: Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · The Sudbury Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable 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 Julie & Dennis Murphy Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Thrive Support and Advocacy Inc — 93% of income from government
- Medway Community Farm Inc — 36% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Hudson Community Food Pantry Inc — 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Bridgewater State University Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Youth Advocacy Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Endicott College — 1% of income from government
- Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Saint Michael's College — 0% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music Inc — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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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