· Public charity
The Patricia R and Herbert J Murphy Foundation
To support the activities of the Licking County Foundation to meet the needs of the growing and changing Licking County community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of The Patricia R and Herbert J Murphy 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $43,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $109,075 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $66,075 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARC of Licking County Center | $25,000 |
| Catholic Diocese of Columbus | $10,000 |
| St Edwards Catholic Church | $8,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of The Patricia R and Herbert J Murphy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $246k · revenue +152%
- LCLICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $149k · revenue +33% · 27% of their budget
- JOJamaica Outreach Program Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $17k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INCone grant, 2019 · $110k · revenue +3%
- HFHEARTBEATS FOR LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +41%
- LCLICKING COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF JOB AND FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
Through partnership, guiding those in need to sustainable housing.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Licking County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jamaica Outreach Program Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 THE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD PANTRY NETWORK OF LICKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEATS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds NEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Licking County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds NEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO ↗
- Who funds THE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Jamaica Outreach Program Inc ↗
- Who funds LICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEWARK-GRANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LICKING COUNTY INC ↗
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: Licking County Foundation Inc · The Lindorf Family Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Licking Memorial Health Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · The Lefevre Foundation · Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc · The O'Neill Foundation · The John and Mary Alford Foundation · The Englefield Foundation · First Federal Foundation · Denison University
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 Patricia R and Herbert J 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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