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The Zuri Foundation Dba the John and Sara 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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

Philanthropy$26kEducation$25kHuman Services$5kArts & Culture$5kEnvironment$3kRecreation & Sports$2kHealth$1kPublic Benefit$357
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$604k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT$20,000
MONTESSORI$5,000
SCALEHOUSE$5,000
OREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS$2,130
HUNTSMAN FOUNDATION$257
02The need
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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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT: $20k → 11%WALK ON WATER FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%FELIX ORGANIZATION - ADOPTEES FOR CHILDREN INC: $5k → 9%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $1k → 17%CHRIS EVERT CHARITIES: $6k → 11%SCALEHOUSE: $5k → 10%HUNTSMAN FOUNDATION: $257 → 8%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $20k → 17%MONTESSORI: $5k → 20%OREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $2k → 10%HUNTSMAN FOUNDATION: $100 → 8%MORGAN HOFFMAN FOUNDATION: $425 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
OR
OH
PA
CA
UT
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FL

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.

03Your field
04the grantee network

7 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 11 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT — $20,000 · OtherBUCKNELL UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENTMONTESSORI — $5,000 · OtherMONTESSORIWALK ON WATER FOUNDATION — $2,500 · OtherWALK ON WATER FOUNDATIONMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING — $1,000 · Other+1 more — $357 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $20,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELANDCHRIS EVERT CHARITIES INC — $6,250 · PhilanthropyCHRIS EVERT CHARITIES INCFELIX ORGANIZATION - ADOPTEES FOR CHILDREN INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsFELIX ORGAN…OREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS — $2,130 · Recreation & SportsOREGON ADAP…SCALEHOUSE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMORGAN HOFFMANN FOUNDATION — $425 · Health
Other$28,857Philanthropy$26,250Recreation & Sports$7,130Arts & Culture$5,000Health$425

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIS EVERT CHARITIES INC — $6,250 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFELIX ORGANIZATION - ADOPTEES FOR CHILDREN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMORGAN HOFFMANN FOUNDATION — $425 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUNTSMAN FOUNDATION — $357 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Zuri Foundation Dba the John and Sara 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Scalehouse10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2024

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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Find your warmest path to The Zuri Foundation Dba the John and Sara 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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