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The Suzanne and Thomas 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.

$490k
Granted FY2023
12
Itemized grants FY2023
11
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$420k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$100,000
States reached, FY2023
8
Total assets, FY2023
$49M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
80% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$270kInternational$90kHousing & Shelter$20kYouth Development$20kReligion$15kArts & Culture$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duke University$100,00010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$90,00010%
Saint Elizabeth Shelter Corporation$20,00010%
Spirit Series Inc$20,00012%
Madison Square Boys & Girls Club$20,00010%
Waldorf School Association of Boulder Inc$10,00010%
Greenwich Country Day School Inc$10,00010%
Ivy 1879 Foundation Inc$5,00012%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Suzanne and Thomas Murphy Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDuke University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Elizabeth Shelter Corporation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSpirit Series Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWaldorf School Association of Boulder Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreenwich Country Day School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIvy 1879 Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Suzanne and Thomas Murphy Foundation

How much does The Suzanne and Thomas Murphy Foundation give?
The Suzanne and Thomas Murphy Foundation reported 12 itemized grants totaling $420,000, out of $490,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does The Suzanne and Thomas Murphy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (5%), International (2%), Housing & Shelter (0%).
Who are The Suzanne and Thomas Murphy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: Duke University ($100k), Save The Children Federation Inc ($90k), Saint Elizabeth Shelter Corporation ($20k).
Does The Suzanne and Thomas Murphy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Suzanne and Thomas Murphy Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Suzanne and Thomas Murphy Foundation based?
The Suzanne and Thomas Murphy Foundation is based in NY.

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 12 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.6M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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