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The Patricia R and Herbert J Murphy Foundation at a glance

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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.

$109k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.5MEducation$693kArts & Culture$210kHuman Services$174kFood & Nutrition$163kCrime & Legal$116kYouth Development$110kPhilanthropy$96kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $43,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $109,075 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $66,075 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARC of Licking County Center$25,000
Catholic Diocese of Columbus$10,000
St Edwards Catholic Church$8,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Licking County YMCA: $50k → 10%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 26% of The Patricia R and Herbert J Murphy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Patricia R and Herbert J Murphy Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 11 repeat orgs$486k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$2.0M
$461k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+78%

Still filing today

27%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTER
    7× · 2017–2023 · $246k · revenue +152%
  • LC
    LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $149k · revenue +33% · 27% of their budget
  • JO
    Jamaica Outreach Program Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $17k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $110k · revenue +3%
  • HF
    HEARTBEATS FOR LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +41%
  • ND
    NEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +252%
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
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

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…

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2
Licking County Coalition for Housing Inc

Through partnership, guiding those in need to sustainable housing.

Housing & Shelter
3
Ashland Assisted Living Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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5
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
6
Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

—
7
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

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…

Philanthropy
8
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
9
Global Cleveland

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.

Human Services
10
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
11
Catholic Charities Corporation

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.

Human Services
12
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Licking County Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST FRANCIS DE SALES PARISH: $419,366 · OtherST FRANCIS DE SALES PARISHGRANVILLE EXEMPTED SCHOOLS: $299,445 · OtherGRANVILLE EXEMPTED SCHOOLSNEWARK CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $274,000 · OtherNEWARK CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLSt Edwards Catholic Church: $217,090 · OtherSt Edwards Catholic ChurchThe Salvation Army: $185,500 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyLICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION: $149,212 · OtherLICKING COUNTY FOUNDATIONNEIGHBORHOOD WAR ON DRUGS INC: $66,000 · Other+10 more: $278,700 · Other+10 moreTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS: $875,624 · ReligionTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE…SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTER: $246,095 · ReligionSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST VINCE…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE FOOD PANTRY NETWORK OF LICKING COUNTY: $50,150 · Food & NutritionHEARTBEATS FOR LIFE: $50,000 · Civil RightsNEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS: $50,000 · Community ImprovementLicking County Family YMCA: $50,000 · Human Services
Other$1,889,313Religion$1,121,719Youth Development$110,000Food & Nutrition$50,150Civil Rights$50,000Community Improvement$50,000Human Services$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS: $875,624 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTER: $246,095 over 7y, 17% of budgetLICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION: $149,212 over 5y, 27% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC: $110,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE FOOD PANTRY NETWORK OF LICKING COUNTY: $50,150 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTBEATS FOR LIFE: $50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetNEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS: $50,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetLicking County Family YMCA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY: $26,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJamaica Outreach Program Inc: $17,200 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetLICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEWARK-GRANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LICKING COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

Licking County Founda…The Lindorf Family Fo…Columbus FoundationLicking Memorial Heal…Park National Corpora…The Lefevre FoundationEnergy Cooperative Ro…The O'Neill FoundationThe John and Mary Alf…The Englefield Founda…First Federal Foundat…Denison University
Licking County Foundation IncOH36.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Patricia R and Herbert J Murphy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Patricia R and Herbert J Murphy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Patricia R and Herbert J Murphy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Patricia R and Herbert J 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 24 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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