Funding search · EIN 710802701 · El Dorado, AR

M W Murphy Foundation

Name: M W Murphy Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

118
grants reported: $2.7M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $12,292
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Tulane University5 grants · $355,000
Md Anderson Cancer Center3 grants · $250,000
St Thomas Community Health Center2 grants · $200,000
Hope Enterprise Corporation3 grants · $200,000
Keoni N Bradley6 grants · $162,510
Greater New Orleans Foundation5 grants · $155,000
Avion Swanier4 grants · $129,468
Kenedi N Ross5 grants · $111,618
Hendrix College1 grant · $100,000
Ellis Marsalis Center for Music3 grants · $90,000

Giving over time

$773,539

2022

$439,550

2023

$566,780

2024

$881,014

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 118 grants.

$125,000
Tulane University · New Orleans, LA · 2025
General fund
$100,000
Md Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX · 2025
General fund
$100,000
St Thomas Community Health Center · New Orleans, LA · 2025
General fund
$100,000
Hendrix College · Conway, AR · 2024
General fund
$100,000
Tulane University · New Orleans, LA · 2024
General fund
$100,000
Hope Enterprise Corporation · Jackson, MS · 2022
General fund
$100,000
Md Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX · 2022
General fund
$100,000
St Thomas Community Health Center · New Orleans, LA · 2022
General fund
$100,000
Tulane University · New Orleans, LA · 2022
General fund
$60,000
Community Foundation · Jackson, MS · 2025
Nova foundation fund
$51,281
Keoni N Bradley · Miami, FL · 2025
Scholarship
$50,000
Ellis Marsalis Center for Music · New Orleans, LA · 2025
General fund
$50,000
Hope Enterprise Corporation · Jackson, MS · 2025
General fund
$50,000
Louisiana Music & Heritage Exp · New Orleans, LA · 2025
General fund
$50,000
New Orleans Book Fest at Tulane · New Orleans, LA · 2025
General fund
$50,000
Hope Enterprise Corporation · Jackson, MS · 2024
General fund
$50,000
Md Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX · 2024
General fund
$47,603
Avion Swanier · Albuquerque, NM · 2023
Scholarship
$47,603
Avion Swanier · Albuquerque, NM · 2023
Scholarship
$35,000
Ellis Marsalis Center for Music · New Orleans, LA · 2022
General fund
$35,000
Greater New Orleans Foundation · New Orleans, LA · 2022
General fund
$31,315
Kenedi N Ross · Houston, TX · 2023
Scholarship
$31,315
Kenedi N Ross · Houston, TX · 2023
Scholarship
$30,000
Greater New Orleans Foundation · New Orleans, LA · 2025
General fund
$30,000
Greater New Orleans Foundation · New Orleans, LA · 2024
General fund
$30,000
Greater New Orleans Foundation · New Orleans, LA · 2023
General fund
$30,000
Greater New Orleans Foundation · New Orleans, LA · 2023
General fund
$30,000
Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation · Sonoma, CA · 2022
General fund
$29,771
Evelyn Hall · Orange, CA · 2025
Scholarship
$29,701
Keoni N Bradley · Miami, FL · 2024
Scholarship
$29,079
Auri Sims · Mississippi State, MS · 2025
Scholarship
$28,522
Keoni N Bradley · Miami, FL · 2023
Scholarship
$28,522
Keoni N Bradley · Miami, FL · 2023
Scholarship
$22,750
Trombone Shorty Foundation · New Orleans, LA · 2023
General fund
$22,750
Trombone Shorty Foundation · New Orleans, LA · 2023
General fund
$22,497
Evelyn Hall · Orange, CA · 2024
Scholarship
$21,776
Auinyea L Biggs · Baton Rouge, LA · 2022
Scholarship
$20,754
Micah McKay · Mobile, AL · 2025
Scholarship
$20,618
Luisa Catano · San Luis Obispo, CA · 2024
Scholarship
$20,000
Coastal Conservation Association · Houston, TX · 2025
General fund
$20,000
Community Foundation · Jackson, MS · 2024
Nova foundation fund
$20,000
Deep South Today · Ridgeland, MS · 2024
General fund
$20,000
Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation · Sonoma, CA · 2024
Pt expansion project
$20,000
Sonoma Valley Education Foundation · Sonoma, CA · 2023
General fund
$20,000
Sonoma Valley Education Foundation · Sonoma, CA · 2023
General fund
$20,000
New Orleans Jazz Museum · New Orleans, LA · 2022
General fund
$20,000
Sonoma Valley Education Foundation · Sonoma, CA · 2022
General fund
$19,547
Kenedi N Ross · Oklahoma City, OK · 2022
Scholarship
$19,220
Avion Swanier · Albuquerque, NM · 2022
Scholarship
$15,547
Kenedi N Ross · Houston, TX · 2024
Scholarship
$15,042
Avion Swanier · Albuquerque, NM · 2024
Scholarship
$15,000
Tulane University · New Orleans, LA · 2023
General fund
$15,000
Tulane University · New Orleans, LA · 2023
General fund
$15,000
Mississippi Center for Justice · Jackson, MS · 2022
General fund
$14,276
Luisa Catano · San Luis Obispo, CA · 2025
Scholarship
$14,009
Keoni N Bradley · Miami, FL · 2022
Scholarship
$13,894
Kenedi N Ross · Houston, TX · 2022
Scholarship
$12,910
Auinyea L Biggs · Baton Rouge, LA · 2023
Scholarship
$12,910
Auinyea L Biggs · Baton Rouge, LA · 2023
Scholarship
$11,675
Luisa Catano · San Luis Obispo, CA · 2023
Scholarship
$11,675
Luisa Catano · San Luis Obispo, CA · 2023
Scholarship
$11,525
Whitney Lang · Hattiesburg, MS · 2025
Scholarship
$10,908
Raven S Copeland · Memphis, TN · 2022
Scholarship
$10,475
Keoni N Bradley · Oklahoma City, OK · 2022
Scholarship
$10,000
Backbeat Foundation · New Orleans, LA · 2025
General fund
$10,000
Human Needs Project · San Rafael, CA · 2025
General fund
$10,000
Mississippi Center for Justice · Jackson, MS · 2025
General fund
$10,000
Sonoma Valley Education Foundation · Sonoma, CA · 2025
General fund
$10,000
Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation · Sonoma, CA · 2025
Pt expansion project
$10,000
Human Needs Project · San Rafael, CA · 2024
General fund
$10,000
Sonoma Valley Education Foundation · Sonoma, CA · 2024
General fund
$10,000
Coahoma Community College · Clarksdale, MS · 2022
Choir
$10,000
Human Needs Project · San Rafael, CA · 2022
General fund
$10,000
Land Trust for the Ms Coastal Plain · Biloxi, MS · 2022
General fund
$10,000
Teach for America · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General fund
$10,000
The Nature Conservancy of La · Baton Rouge, LA · 2022
General fund
$9,530
Micah McKay · Jackson, MS · 2024
2024 fall scholarship
$8,560
Micah McKay · Jackson, MS · 2025
Scholarship
$7,865
Whitney Lang · Hattiesburg, MS · 2024
Scholarship
$7,758
Kaleigh Woods · Hattiesburg, MS · 2022
Scholarship
$6,851
Auinyea L Biggs · Baton Rouge, LA · 2025
Scholarship
$5,777
Rita Dedeaux · Hattiesburg, MS · 2025
Scholarship
$5,680
Jace Bienemy · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Scholarship
$5,000
Pass Christian Public Library · Pass Christian, MS · 2025
2024 summer reading program
$5,000
Backbeat Foundation · New Orleans, LA · 2024
General fund
$5,000
Ellis Marsalis Center for Music · New Orleans, LA · 2024
General fund
$5,000
Mississippi Center for Justice · Jackson, MS · 2024
General fund
$5,000
New Orleans Jazz Museum · New Orleans, LA · 2024
General fund
$5,000
Backbeat Foundation · New Orleans, LA · 2022
General fund
$5,000
Ogden Museum of Southern Art · New Orleans, LA · 2022
General fund
$5,000
Sonoma Film Festival · Sonoma, CA · 2022
General fund
$5,000
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art · Sonoma, CA · 2022
General fund
$5,000
The Nature Conservancy of Ms · Madison, MS · 2022
General fund
$5,000
Tougaloo College · Tougaloo, MS · 2022
General fund
$4,952
Luisa Catano · San Luis Obispo, CA · 2022
Scholarship
$3,690
Jamari Bradley · Poplarville, MS · 2024
Fall 2024 scholarship
$3,640
Jamari Bradley · Poplarville, MS · 2025
Scholarship
$3,500
Coastal Conservation Association · Houston, TX · 2022
General fund
$3,000
Lower Delta Partnership · Rolling Fork, MS · 2024
General fund
$2,500
New Orleans Center · New Orleans, LA · 2022
General fund

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.