· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Michael Murphey Western Institute In funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael Murphey Western Institute In. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
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