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William O Murphy 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.

$83k
Granted FY2018
15
Grants FY2018
15
Organizations funded FY2018
0%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
15 to 16
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$989k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 0% of the organizations William O Murphy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201815$83k0%
FY201716$111kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$63kReligion$25kCivil Rights$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kYouth Development$14kHousing & Shelter$13kFood & Nutrition$11kCrime & Legal$7kOther$0

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
Our Place Community Outreach$17,5002n/a
Seattle Area Youth for Christ$14,00021%
Vanessa Behan$14,00020%
By the Well Foundation$8,7502n/a

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($139k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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Find your warmest path to William O 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.

About William O Murphy Foundation

How much does William O Murphy Foundation give?
William O Murphy Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $82,500 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does William O Murphy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Religion (13%), Civil Rights (9%).
Who are William O Murphy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Our Place Community Outreach ($18k), Seattle Area Youth for Christ ($14k), Vanessa Behan ($14k).
Does William O Murphy Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does William O 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 William O Murphy Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is William O Murphy Foundation based?
William O Murphy Foundation is based in WA.

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 16 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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