Open Foundations · Arkansas

M W Murphy Foundation

El Dorado, Arkansas · EIN 710802701. Its Form 990-PF says giving is not restricted to organizations picked in advance, which is how a private foundation files that it accepts unsolicited requests. It paid $881K across 34 grants in 2025, a median of $10K each.

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$881K
paid in 2025
34
grants paid
$10K
median grant
16%
to first-time recipients
$11.8M
assets on file

How to apply, as filed

Straight off Part XV of the return. Where the foundation left a line blank, this says so rather than guessing.

Send requests to
MARTHA W MURPHY
Address
200 NORTH JEFFERSON, EL DORADO, AR, 71730
Phone
8708624961
Email
Not stated in the filing
Form the request should take
GRANT APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE MADE IN LETTER FORM DETAILING PURPOSE AND AMOUNT OF REQUEST.
Submission deadline
NONE
Restrictions on awards
NONE

As filed on the Form 990-PF for tax year 2025, IRS filing object id 202641329349104149. Printed word for word, including the entries that only say to see a website or an attachment.

What it funds, in its own words

The words that come up most often across the purposes it wrote on its 2025 grants. These are the foundation's own words, not a category we assigned.

scholarship

Biggest grants in 2025

The 15 largest of the 34 grants paid in 2025, with the purpose the foundation wrote for each.

#RecipientStateAmountPurpose as filed
1Tulane UniversityLA$125,000GENERAL FUND
2Md Anderson Cancer CenterTX$100,000GENERAL FUND
3St Thomas Community Health CenterLA$100,000GENERAL FUND
4Community FoundationMS$60,000NOVA FOUNDATION FUND
5Keoni N BradleyFL$51,281SCHOLARSHIP
6Ellis Marsalis Center for MusicLA$50,000GENERAL FUND
7Hope Enterprise CorporationMS$50,000GENERAL FUND
8Louisiana Music & Heritage ExpLA$50,000GENERAL FUND
9New Orleans Book Fest at TulaneLA$50,000GENERAL FUND
10Greater New Orleans FoundationLA$30,000GENERAL FUND
11Evelyn HallCA$29,771SCHOLARSHIP
12Auri SimsMS$29,079SCHOLARSHIP
13Micah MckayAL$20,754SCHOLARSHIP
14Coastal Conservation AssociationTX$20,000GENERAL FUND
15Luisa CatanoCA$14,276SCHOLARSHIP

Giving by year, and who received it

Grants paid by year

Every year of this foundation's grants that Civly holds
Tax yearGrantsPaid
20206$102K
202118$502K
202238$774K
20239$220K
202428$567K
2025 (partial year)34$881K

Where the money went

Share of 2025 grant dollars by recipient state
Mississippi35%
Louisiana32%
California18%
Texas6%
Florida3%

Who decides

Officers, directors and trustees as filed, with the year of the return they appeared on.

Martha W MurphyPRESIDENT/DI · 2025

Every figure on this page is that foundation's own latest filed year, which is 2022 or later. This foundation is listed because its Form 990-PF says it does not restrict giving to preselected organizations and it paid at least 5 grants totaling $100K or more that year. Latest-year grants and terms per foundation from IRS 990-PF e-file returns; the newest tax year is partial until the IRS finishes releasing it. Grants are de-duplicated on funder, year, recipient and amount, so identical repeat grants collapse into one and totals can run low. Full method.

Source: IRS Form 990-PF e-file releases (public domain). Analysis: Civly.

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