New York · Nonprofit
LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM
LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,397 to it, the largest being LT MICHAEL P MURPHY USN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ($151,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $541k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $493k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Lt Michael P Murphy Navy Seal Museum does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to preserve the legacy of navy seals and to preserve the legacy of lt michael murphy and to contribute to the support of local naval sea cadets.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The lt michael p. Murphy navy seal museum & sea cadet training facility is a dual purpose building serving as both a navy museum and a training facility for 11 17 year old sea cadets, both girls and boys to be better citizens. The museum itself has 7 exhibition halls promoting the bravery, legacy and stories of our navy special warfare heroes from world war 2 through the war on terror along with a memorial wall and seal training exhibition hall. These areas bring to the public's attention the exploits of these truly exceptional men through movies, videos, artifacts and hands on "state of the art" computer displays of each era in the underwater demolition teams and navy seal history. (cont'd. On schedule o) the public and visitors will be able to grasp, comprehend and understand the sacrifices made by these extraordinary sailors in protecting this country. The museum allows the public to note the cost of freedom in the lives lost as well as the operational stories of the various periods in naval history. The adjoining sea cadet training facility acts as both an event space and training facility for the lt michael p. Murphy sea cadet division and teaches leadership skills and…
$558,733 spent$61,833 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $558,733.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.1M to $3.1M (+47%).
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.
94% of LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Christopher Wyllie
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $100k → $44k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 48% · 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 70% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“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
20% of LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
66% of LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM's revenue grew 29% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM?
- LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,397 to it, the largest being LT MICHAEL P MURPHY USN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ($151,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $493,397 in grants to LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM?
- LT MICHAEL P MURPHY USN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $151,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 11 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing