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The Julie & Dennis Murphy Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$684kHealth$164kArts & Culture$57kReligion$53kFood & Nutrition$38kYouth Development$31kEnvironment$27kHuman Services$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$56k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE HEALING GARDEN$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
VERMONT FOOD BANK$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES: $500 → 7%THE THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 9%WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $500 → 9%THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 9%THE THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 9%MEDWAY COMMUNITY FARM: $500 → 7%THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER: $250 → 9%THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY: $10k → 8%LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 11%THRIVE SUPPORT A ADVOCACY: $250 → 8%HUDSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 8%HUDSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 8%HUDSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 8%HUDSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
MO
VA
DE
AZ
NC
SC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$906k · 51 repeat orgs$295k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
115

Total granted

$906k
$285k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+31%

Still filing today

39%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +66%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +22%
  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • GH
    GROTON HILL MUSIC CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • TO
    TOWN OF BOLTON
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • DI
    DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +5%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Western New England University

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…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
Dickinson College

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

Education
5
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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6
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
7
University of New Haven

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…

Education
8
Lehigh University

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…

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
Dean College

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,…

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; 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.
04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 176 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
56/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER - MARLBOROUGH HOSPITAL: $70,500 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER - MARLBOROUGH HOSPITALGROTON HILL MUSIC CENTER: $50,000 · OtherGROTON HILL MUSIC CENTERUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $48,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONTHOLY TRINITY CHURCH: $41,550 · OtherHOLY TRINITY CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $40,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTOWER HILL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $40,000 · OtherTOWER HILL BOTANICAL GARDENUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST: $28,000 · OtherPERKINS SCHOOL: $26,500 · Other+118 more: $320,359 · Other+118 moreSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $340,000 · EducationSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGEThe George Washington University: $18,500 · Education+31 more: $105,250 · Education+31 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC: $30,250 · Youth Development+1 more: $500 · Youth DevelopmentDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC: $5,500 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $3,600 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,750 · Health+2 more: $750 · HealthTHRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC: $10,250 · Human ServicesHUDSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $2,750 · Human ServicesLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesVERMONT FOODBANK: $5,225 · Food & NutritionMEDWAY VILLAGE FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionYOUTH ADVOCACY FOUNDATION INC: $5,600 · Public Benefit
Other$665,409Education$463,750Youth Development$30,750Health$22,600Human Services$22,000Food & Nutrition$6,225Public Benefit$5,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $340,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC: $30,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe George Washington University: $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC: $10,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMINUTE MAN ARC FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $7,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH ADVOCACY FOUNDATION INC: $5,600 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC: $5,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $5,225 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $3,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GENESIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $2,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBridgewater State University Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROTON HILL MUSIC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAGAR'S SISTERS INC: $1,300 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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 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 Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Middlesex Savings Cha…Greater Lowell Commun…Community Foundation …Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Arbella Insurance Fou…Analog Devices Founda…The Sudbury FoundationCommunity Foundation …Rockland Trust Charit…Citizens Charitable F…
Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation IncMA21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Julie & Dennis Murphy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Julie & Dennis Murphy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Julie & Dennis Murphy Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Julie & Dennis Murphy Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 176 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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