Illinois · Nonprofit
DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 123 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,705,677 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,787,259). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 123
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund does
Mission
The mission of the Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund is to give high school scholarship assistance and educational support to chicago students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The fund seeks to make a life-altering difference in the lives of its scholars by providing them with the best opportunity to succeed in high school and college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Financial assistance - the fund provides scholarships and other financial support to economically disadvantaged chicago area students allowing them to attend leading private and parochial high schools in the chicago area and top boarding schools across the country. During the 2024/2025 and 2023/2024 school years, the fund served 495 and 444 scholars, respectively.
$3,726,115 spentof which $2,222,976 as grants81% of program spendingCollege counseling - the fund works with scholars throughout their four years in high school and most intensively in their junior and senior years, assisting the scholars as they search for an appropriate college and for funding to help pay for that college.
$159,188 spent3% of program spendingSummer opportunities, including the caddie program - the objective of the summer opportunities program is to present scholars with summer job opportunities, internships, cultural and study abroad programs, sports programs and community service programs. As part of the summer opportunities program, the fund provides summer golf caddie employment opportunities for scholars. Scholars caddie at nearby country clubs, earning income, gaining work experience and developing life skills.
$263,087 spent6% of program spendingMentoring - scholars who wish to participate are matched with an adult mentor for their four years in high school. The fund also operates an affinity program, in which ten to fifteen students meet every other week with an adult facilitator to discuss issues common to many of the scholars.tutoring - the fund helps find and fund tutors for scholars whose gpas fall below 3.0 or who seek additional help. The fund also operates a virtual tutoring platform during the school year.bridge to excellence - the fund works with leap! Learning systems and educational endeavors to provide two weeks of mandatory classes for all incoming freshman scholars, focusing on language skills, time managements, study skills and critical thinking.
$447,103 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,595,493.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $14M to $12M (−15%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Cindy Hallums
Executive director
Board chair
Rocky Lopez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 60 funders, grant income rose $683k → $2.1M.
19 of 123 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 123 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 18% · 2019 14% · 2020 18% · 2021 13% · 2022 20% · 2023 24% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
58% of DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6.8M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND?
- DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 123 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,705,677 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,787,259). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND have?
- IRS filings report 123 organizations giving $13,705,677 in grants to DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND, 90 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,787,259 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 123 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing