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The Murphy and Ed Romano Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$148k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE MURPHY AND ED ROMANO 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.

02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$909k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL$65,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$50,000
PROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH FOUNDATION$15,000
ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY$11,750
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC)$3,500
NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $3k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $750 → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF BURBANK: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$592k · 12 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$592k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+116%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    3× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +53%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +12%
  • DH
    DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • AC
    ACCELERATE CHANGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +495%
  • VP
    VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +116%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
2
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
Albright College

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

Education
5
Arcadia University

Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
8
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
9
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
10
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

11
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
12
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Friends of the Children and the most unlike its peers is Notre Dame High School. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL — $173,750 · OtherNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOLPROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH FOUNDATION — $139,068 · OtherPROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH FOUNDATION+5 more — $19,500 · Other+5 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc — $180,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA — $51,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION…DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE — $10,000 · HealthST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $49,250 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIV…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $32,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …COLUMBIA COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationCOLUMBIA COLLE…NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $5,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $2,500 · Civil RightsCASA OF LOS ANGELES — $1,000 · Civil RightsCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $4,850 · Arts & CultureTHE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE — $1,750 · Arts & CultureUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $3,250 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF BURBANK — $500 · Human ServicesUPWARDLY GLOBAL — $1,000 · Employment
Other$332,318Health$241,000Education$91,250Youth Development$8,500Civil Rights$8,500Arts & Culture$6,600Human Services$3,750Employment$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $180,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL — $173,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA — $51,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $49,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $32,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA COLLEGE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE — $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $4,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE — $1,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPWARDLY GLOBAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF BURBANK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Murphy and Ed Romano 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Murphy and Ed Romano Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Murphy and Ed Romano 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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