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William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$53k
Granted FY2018
23
Grants FY2018
23
Organizations funded FY2018
17%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 25
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
5
Total assets, FY2018
$2k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 17% of the organizations William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201823$53k17%
FY201725$49kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Environment$48kEducation$22kRecreation & Sports$13kArts & Culture$9kReligion$6kHousing & Shelter$4kYouth Development$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$20,00020%
Manomet Inc$10,00020%
The Learning Project Inc$10,00020%
Friends of the Public Garden Inc$9,0002n/a
Mothers Out Front Inc$6,50020%
St Cecilia Parish Inc$6,0002n/a
Home Energy Efficiency Team Inc$4,5002n/a
Milton Academy$3,00020%
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School$3,00020%
Soccer Unity Project Inc$2,00021%
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All grantees of William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$20,00020%
Manomet Inc$10,00020%
The Learning Project Inc$10,00020%
Friends of the Public Garden Inc$9,0002n/a
Mothers Out Front Inc$6,50020%
St Cecilia Parish Inc$6,0002n/a
Home Energy Efficiency Team Inc$4,5002n/a
Milton Academy$3,00020%
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School$3,00020%
Soccer Unity Project Inc$2,00021%
Barnard College$2,00020%
Pine Street Inn Inc$2,00020%
Community Music Center of Boston Inc$2,00010%
Native Plant Trust Inc$2,00020%
Lakes Region Conservation Trust$2,0002n/a
Haley House Inc & Affiliates$2,00020%
The Beaver Country Day School Inc$2,00020%
Esplanade Association Inc$2,00020%
Jean Appolon Expressions Inc$1,00021%
Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc$1,0001n/a
The Trustees of Reservations$1,00010%
Solar Youth Inc$1,00010%
Yale University$1,0001n/a
Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc$75011%
Friends of Hayes Park Inc$5001n/a
Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society Inc$10010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetManomet Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Learning Project Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMothers Out Front Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMilton Academy: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBuckingham Browne & Nichols School: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSoccer Unity Project Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBarnard College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Music Center of Boston Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNative Plant Trust Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHaley House Inc & Affiliates: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Beaver Country Day School Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEsplanade Association Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJean Appolon Expressions Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolar Youth Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGarden Club of the Back Bay Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSeal Harbor Village Improvement Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 19.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA28.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Crawford Foundation · The Orchard Foundation · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Ibm International 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 William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family Foundation

How much does William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family Foundation give?
William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $53,000 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Environment (47%), Education (21%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
Who are William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($20k), Manomet Inc ($10k), The Learning Project Inc ($10k).
Does William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family 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 William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Barr Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
Where is William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family Foundation based?
William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family Foundation is based in MA.

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 29 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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