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The Lowry Murphey 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.

$274k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 32
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$5.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Lowry Murphey Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving23$274k57%
FY202419$298k11%
FY202322$281k27%
FY202224$297k33%
FY202124$294k21%
FY202025$331k16%
FY201932$288k34%
FY201831$303k16%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$502kYouth Development$494kAnimals$385kEducation$298kReligion$225kHealth$182kHuman Services$87kCommunity Improvement$56kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Tampa Bay History Center$436,00094%
Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc$379,24090%
Young Life$310,50090%
St Johns Episcopal Church$96,0005n/a
Frameworks of Tampa Bay Inc$80,00092%
Champions for Children Inc$45,00040%
Best Buddies International Inc$38,00050%
Samford University$36,00050%
Created Women Inc$23,50051%
Mary Lees House Inc$17,00061%
Show all 36 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lowry Murphey Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Tampa Bay History Center: $436,000 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetLowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc: $379,240 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Life: $310,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFrameworks of Tampa Bay Inc: $80,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetChampions for Children Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $38,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSamford University: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCreated Women Inc: $23,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMary Lees House Inc: $17,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe New Canaan Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $16,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNeuroshifts Inc: $15,300 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetAmerican Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Becky Walker Science Scholarship Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetMountain Projects Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tampa Theatre Inc A/K/A Tampa Theatre Foundation: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Operations Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Cancer Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSing Out and Read Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Junior League of Tampa Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetQuantum Leap Farm Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsaiah 117 House: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoodson Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Camping Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Risk Hope Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Vinik Family FoundationFL36.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vinik Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Clark Family Fund Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · Frank E Duckwall Foundation · The Spurlino Foundation · Lightning Foundation · The Saunders Foundation · Chris T Sullivan Foundation Inc · Sbj Resch Family Foundation Inc · Jacarlene 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.

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How do I get to The Lowry Murphey Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Lowry Murphey 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.

About The Lowry Murphey Family Foundation

How much does The Lowry Murphey Family Foundation give?
The Lowry Murphey Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $274,033 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Lowry Murphey Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Youth Development (21%), Animals (16%).
Who are The Lowry Murphey Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Tampa Bay History Center ($436k), Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc ($379k), Young Life ($311k).
Does The Lowry Murphey Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lowry Murphey Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Lowry Murphey Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vinik Family Foundation, Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc, Debartolo Family Foundation Inc.
Where is The Lowry Murphey Family Foundation based?
The Lowry Murphey Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 91 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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