· Private foundation
Arthur L Bud Johnson in Memory of Elaine V Johnson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $564k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $761k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEMPERVIRENS FUND | $100,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSN OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS | $100,000 |
| THE SEEING EYE INC | $100,000 |
| GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONS EDU | $88,157 |
| ARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE | $62,700 |
| VOICE OF ASIAN ELEPHANTS SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| ATLANTA-FULTON COUNTY ZOO | $50,000 |
| TURTLE CONSERVANCY | $44,821 |
| NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND | $35,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $35,000 |
| DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN | $32,632 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $943k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SFSEMPERVIRENS FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $285k · revenue +61%
NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION3× · 2020–2023 · $239k · revenue +108%- TSTHE SEEING EYE INC2× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- SGSoutheastern Guide Dogs Incone grant, 2019 · $118k · revenue +24%
- KAKSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +38%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $96k · revenue +84%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Monarch Research Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 107 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SEMPERVIRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds VOICE FOR ASIAN ELEPHANTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds NAPA COUNTY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INDIANA FOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PARAGON SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds Westchester Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BONOBOS ↗
- Who funds MONARCH RESEARCH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums Inc · The Nature Conservancy · Patagoniaorg · Clif Family Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Anderson-Rogers Foundation Inc · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · Land Trust Alliance Inc · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arthur L Bud Johnson in Memory of Elaine V Johnson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc — 26% of income from government
- Delaware Zoological Society Inc — 16% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Whale and Dolphin Conservationinc — 3% of income from government
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bok Tower Gardens Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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