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The Murphy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$7.2MArts & Culture$2.2MEducation$1.4MPhilanthropy$450kYouth Development$252kCommunity Improvement$185kHuman Services$168kPublic Benefit$140kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $693k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $532k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.4M
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SALVATION ARMY$35,000
SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER$35,000
EL DORADO BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$35,000
UNITED WAY OF UNION COUNTY$35,000
ARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION$30,000
SOUTH ARKANSAS SYMPHONY$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE FAMILY SCHOOL: $10k → 14%THE FAMILY SCHOOL: $10k → 14%THE FAMILY SCHOOL: $10k → 14%THEA FOUNDATION: $6k → 17%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS: $15k → 17%HOPE LANDING: $10k → 19%HOPE LANDING: $10k → 19%HOPE LANDING: $8k → 19%HOPE LANDING: $8k → 19%HOPE LANDING: $8k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
AR
TN
LA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 50 repeat orgs$463k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
23

Total granted

$12M
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+9%

Still filing today

58%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SA
    SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $445k · revenue +40%
  • MR
    MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $185k · revenue +3%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF UNION COUNTY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $185k · revenue +174%

Funded once

  • CP
    CAL POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • ED
    EL DORADO BOYS & GIRLS CL
    one grant, 2022 · $31k
  • ME
    MAINSTREET EL DORADO
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +9%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Arkansas Education Association

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.

Education
2
Arkansas Community Foundation Inc

Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.

Philanthropy
3
Arkansas Pharmacy Foundation

Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.

Health
4
Arkansas Repertory Theatre

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…

Arts & Culture
5
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
6
Arkansas Humanities Council

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…

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7
Opportunity Arkansas Foundation

Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.

Philanthropy
8
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc

To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education

Health
9
South Arkansas College Foundation Inc

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.

Education
10
University of Central Ar Foundation Inc

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.

Education
11
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families

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…

Human Services
12
Arkansas Farm Bureau Foundation

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…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 93 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
26/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SARH HOLDINGS INC: $5,812,529 · HealthSARH HOLDINGS INC+6 more: $333,513 · Health+6 moreCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $900,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDAT…ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $195,000 · OtherARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE …SALVATION ARMY: $150,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYEL DORADO BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $120,000 · OtherALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE V&E FOUNDATIO: $90,500 · Other+56 more: $1,258,998 · Other+56 moreEL DORADO FESTIVALS & EVENTS INC: $1,068,927 · Arts & CultureEL DORADO FESTIVA…SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER: $445,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH ARKANSAS AR…SOUTH ARKANSAS SYMPHONY: $135,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH ARKANSAS SY…ARKANSAS CINEMA SOCIETY INC: $100,960 · Arts & CultureThe Muses Inc: $90,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $100,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…HENDRIX COLLEGE: $347,500 · EducationHENDRIX C…FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $110,000 · EducationFIRSTLINE…GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $40,000 · Education+2 more: $28,500 · EducationUNITED WAY OF UNION COUNTY INC: $185,000 · PhilanthropyUNION COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $67,500 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $47,500 · PhilanthropyARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Crime & LegalSANTA MARIA POLICE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalHOPE LANDING INC: $42,500 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY SCHOOL: $30,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHEA FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Human Services
Health$6,146,042Other$2,714,498Arts & Culture$1,939,887Education$1,026,000Philanthropy$440,000Crime & Legal$130,000Human Services$93,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSARH HOLDINGS INC: $5,812,529 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetEL DORADO FESTIVALS & EVENTS INC: $1,068,927 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER: $445,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetHENDRIX COLLEGE: $347,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF UNION COUNTY INC: $185,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetUNION COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetSOUTH ARKANSAS SYMPHONY: $135,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS CINEMA SOCIETY INC: $100,960 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCARTI Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Muses Inc: $90,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $67,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetARKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $52,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEL DORADO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE LANDING INC: $42,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT OF SOUTH ARKANSAS INC: $37,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY SCHOOL: $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMAINSTREET EL DORADO: $30,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $20,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHot Springs Documentary Film Institute: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL DORADO SERVICE LEAGUE: $12,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetHATS FOR HOPE: $9,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetSANTA MARIA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY: $8,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER ORGANIZATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS HUNGER RELIEF ALLIANCE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHEA FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA MARIA POLICE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPhilander Smith College: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF PRIDE AND EQUALITY: $3,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budget
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 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 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF UNION COUNTY INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Arkansas Community Fo…Alderson Family Found…Windgate Charitable F…Arvest FoundationWilliam C and Theodos…Munro FoundationWalton Family Foundat…C Louis and Mary C Ca…Riggs Benevolent FundCadence Bank Foundati…The Community Foundat…Delta Dental Plan of …
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR32.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Murphy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Murphy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Murphy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Murphy 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 93 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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