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The Murphy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $693k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $532k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARH HOLDINGS INC | $1,628,060 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| EL DORADO FESTIVALS AND EVENTS | $222,083 |
| MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUN | $100,000 |
| ARKANSAS CINEMA SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA VINTNER'S FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| EL DORADO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $50,000 |
| HENDRIX COLLEGE | $47,500 |
| CAL POLY STATE UNIVERSITY | $38,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF UNION COUNTY | $35,000 |
| SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER | $35,000 |
| EL DORADO BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $35,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $35,000 |
| SOUTH ARKANSAS SYMPHONY | $30,000 |
| ARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 17 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
- SASOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $445k · revenue +40%
- UWUNITED WAY OF UNION COUNTY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $185k · revenue +174%
- MRMARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $185k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- CPCAL POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $40k
- EDEL DORADO BOYS & GIRLS CLone grant, 2022 · $31k
- MEMAINSTREET EL DORADOone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +9%
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.
Advocate for educational professionals and unite our members and the state to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
To produce a diverse body of theatrical work of the highest artistic standards. with a focus on dramatic storytelling that illuminates the human journey, the theatre entertains, engages and challenges local and regional audiences of all…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
The purpose of the arkansas humanities council is to promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the humanities in arkansas. to achieve its purpose, the council awards grants through a competitive application process to nonprofit…
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education
To aid, strengthen, and further in every proper and useful way the work and services of south arkansas college, and to provide broader educational opportunities to its students, staff, faculty, and to the residents of union county.
The purpose of the university of central arkansas foundation, inc. is to further the goals of the university of central arkansas by securing and carefully managing private funds for the support of the university.
Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…
Arkansas farm bureau foundation (the "foundation") is organized for charitable and educational purposes to further the understanding of agricultural and rural issues, and to support the agricultural and rural community through financial…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Philander Smith College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 59% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 93 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 SARH HOLDINGS INC ↗
- Who funds EL DORADO FESTIVALS & EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HENDRIX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF UNION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNION COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CINEMA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CARTI Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Muses Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA VINTNERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
- Who funds EL DORADO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HOPE LANDING INC ↗
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT OF SOUTH ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Alderson Family Foundation · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · William C and Theodosia Murphy Nolan Foundation · Munro Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · C Louis and Mary C Cabe Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Cadence Bank Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Delta Dental Plan of Arkansas Inc
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 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.
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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