· Private foundation
The Michael Murphey Western Institute In
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAYLOR MUSEUM OF WACO AND MCLENNAN COUNTY HISTORY | $3,935 |
| GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,030 |
| FORMER TEXAS RANGERS FOUNDATION | $516 |
| SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION | $10 |
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 (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10 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
- TMTAYLOR MUSEUM OF WACO AND MCLENNAN COUNTY HISTORY2× · 2024–2025 · $11k · revenue +57%
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2017–2019 · $3k
- FTFORMER TEXAS RANGERS FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- TJTHE JAMES & DOROTHY DOSS HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTERone grant, 2024 · $7k
- FRFIONA ROSE MURPHEY CHARITABLEone grant, 2023 · $7k
- FOFRIENDS OF HISTORIC LINCOLNone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
To preserve and protect museum artifacts of the south central area of oklahoma
The Museum was organized to distribute educational information and data on animals of the world; and provide a channel for organized efforts to promote a public understanding and acceptance of sport hunting as an effective tool for…
To collect, maintain, preserve, publish and interpret the heritage and history of waco, mclennan county, texas
Museum of the old west exists to conserve artifacts and buildings which represent the story of wyoming during our country's westward expansion from the fur trade era to the early 1900s. we educate the nearly 25,000 visitors per season on…
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
To insure that wyoming's past remains accessible to present and future generations and to educate, support and foster the study of wyoming history.
The museum of the west texas frontier in stamford operates under the supervision and administration of the city of stamford. located in the heart of the cowboy country of texas, its supporters are vitally interested in the perpetuation of…
To support the oklahoma city community foundation by supporting the national cowboy and western heritage museum.
The Museum of Western Art in the Texas Hill Country is dedicated to excellence in the collection, preservation and display of Western art.
The Association is developing, distributing and archiving oral histories, atlas maps and descriptive essays, and wildlife illustrations to expand public appreciation and grasp of Texas environmental history.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Folklife Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 23 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 AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAYLOR MUSEUM OF WACO AND MCLENNAN COUNTY HISTORY ↗
- Who funds COWTOWN BIRTHPLACE OF WESTERN SWING ↗
- Who funds FORMER TEXAS RANGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAHLEQUAH TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS HORSE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FORT WALLACE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN FOLKLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VALLEY HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds LARAMIE CHAMBER BUSINESS ALLIANCE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Michael Murphey Western Institute In 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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