· Private foundation
The Robert and Lynn Murphy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+2 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC | $3,000,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT | $1,050,000 |
| ST ANDREWS | $100,000 |
| CAREERSPRING FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CASA JUAN DIEGO | $25,000 |
| ASHLEY COUNTY MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCAREERSPRING FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $200k · revenue +125%
- PDPARADISUS DEI INC4× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +79%
- CJCASA JUAN DIEGO2× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- JHJESUIT HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $150k
- JHJESULT HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
See Schedule O. See explanation for Form 990, Part I, Line 1 - Organization's Mission above.
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
Dominican University provides instruction to students seeking an Associates, Undergraduate or Graduate degree (some doctorate and certificates), and administers all of its programs without discrimination of race, color, gender, religion,…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
The mission of the University is to prepare students personally, socially, and intellectually to effectively function in a global and technological society.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAREERSPRING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARADISUS DEI INC ↗
- Who funds CASA JUAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds CONCERTS FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds The Gateway Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds University of New Orleans Foundation ↗
- Who funds KING'S ACADEMY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Posoli Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert and Lynn Murphy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Lynn Murphy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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