Georgia · Nonprofit
MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC
MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,550,683 to it, the largest being TR ALLAN C & LELIA J GARDEN FDN ($501,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Murphy-Harpst Children's Centers Inc does
Mission
Murphy-harpst is a behavioral healthcare organization offering a continuum of services designed to meet the needs of children and youth with emotional and/or behavioral problems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The organization opened a pilot program for the state of georgia called qualified residential treatment program (qrtp) in january 2025. This is a residential program, with the capacity for ten (10) residents, who are stepping down from a prtf (a non-hospital facility providing intensive inpatient care for individuals).
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Direct childcare - the organization contributes services to families and children in the foster care system which can include medically fragile children and children with behavioral and developmental challenges. The organization contributes services to families and children in home based care and kinship care.
$11,110,366 spentof which $405,773 as grants$12,668,056 earned by the program97% of program spendingFood support - the organization provides meals and food support to participating families and children in residential care.
$345,230 spent$390,128 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,455,596.
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 2024 to 2025, from $11M to $13M (+19%).
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 12% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Michael Scott Merritt
President/CEO/director
Board chair
Martha Carroll
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $191k → $349k.
16 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
41% 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 MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 30% · 2019 17% · 2020 26% · 2021 24% · 2022 21% · 2023 23% — 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
55% of MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $898k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Organizations like MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- United Methodist Church · exempt
- Georgia United Methodist Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC?
- MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,550,683 to it, the largest being TR ALLAN C & LELIA J GARDEN FDN ($501,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $2,550,683 in grants to MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC?
- TR ALLAN C & LELIA J GARDEN FDN is the largest funder on record, with $501,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 58 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