Skip to content
Barbara P Johnson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Barbara P Johnson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$781k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$734k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

94% of Barbara P Johnson Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of New Jersey, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’19
4
’20
2
’21
1
’22
1
’23
1
’24
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.0MArts & Culture$1.1MEducation$194kHealth$103kInternational$20kSocial Science$5kHuman Services$2kYouth Development$1k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $250k+1 grant · $734k
$4,816
Median grant
5
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NJ$734,295
Individual grant recipient$18,000
Individual grant recipient$7,359
Individual grant recipient$6,000
KOLOBRZEG ASSOC FOR ASSIT TO CHILDN WITH AUTISM$4,816
APERIO ASSOC FOR EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND$4,530
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
CAROLINE'S HOPE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Sonia Brodowska: $6k → 8%CAROLINE'S HOPE: $1k → 6%POLISH HERITAGE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $100 → 22%POLISH AMERICAN CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2k → 14%Leon Filipczak: $3k → 15%JAGODA PASTERNACKA: $3k → 7%TOLEDO ART MUSEUM: $640k → 18%BARBARA PIASECKA JOHNSON CHARITABLE FUND: $683k → 4%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERCER COUNTY: $1k → 11%President and Fellows of Harvard College: $10k → 8%CAROLINE'S HOPE: $500 → 6%BARBARA PIASECKA JOHNSON CHARITABLE FUND: $425k → 4%HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $15k → 11%President and Fellows of Harvard College: $5k → 8%CAROLINE'S HOPE: $500 → 6%BARBARA PIASECKA JOHNSON CHARITABLE FUND: $375k → 4%ADAM AFTYKA: $7k → 11%CAROLINE'S HOPE: $500 → 6%BARBARA PIASECKA JOHNSON CHARITABLE FUND: $213k → 4%THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $5k → 11%CAROLINE'S HOPE: $500 → 6%CAROLINE'S HOPE: $500 → 6%CAROLINE'S HOPE: $500 → 6%KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION PHILADELPHIA: $500 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 84% of Barbara P Johnson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in NJ; by stated purpose, 4%.

Barbara P Johnson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 14 repeat orgs$731k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$2.5M
$722k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+67%

Still filing today

21%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BP
    BARBARA PIASECKA JOHNSON CHARITABLE FUND
    4× · 2019–2022 · $1.7M
  • AF
    ANIA FILOCHOWSKA & PIOTR FILOCHOWSKI
    4× · 2019–2022 · $210k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2024 · $144k

Funded once

  • TA
    TOLEDO ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $640k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $45k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
05the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARBARA PIASECKA JOHNSON CHARITABLE FUND: $1,696,413 · OtherBARBARA PIASECKA JOHNSON CHARITABLE FUNDTOLEDO ART MUSEUM: $640,000 · OtherTOLEDO ART MUSEUMANIA FILOCHOWSKA & PIOTR FILOCHOWSKI: $209,764 · OtherANIA FILOCHOWSKA & PIOTR FILOCHOWSKIIndividual grant recipient: $143,961 · Other+20 more: $487,937 · Other+20 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $2,054,249 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEYTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $20,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $15,000 · EducationCAROLINES HOPE INC: $4,000 · HealthBoys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,178,075Philanthropy$2,054,249Education$35,000Health$4,000Youth Development$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $2,054,249 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEQUIPMENT APPRAISERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA C/O VALARIE RAKOWSKI: $98,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINES HOPE INC: $4,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds EQUIPMENT APPRAISERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA C/O VALARIE RAKOWSKI ↗
  • Who funds THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINES HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Barbara P Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara P Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Barbara P Johnson’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home