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Benjamin F Johnston Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
44%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$375
Largest grant, FY2025
$375
Organizations funded a year
8 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$116k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Benjamin F Johnston Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$3k0%
FY20249$3k44%
FY20238$4k0%
FY20228$4k25%
FY20218$4k0%
FY20208$5k38%
FY20198$5k13%
FY20188$5k50%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$12kAnimals$9kHuman Services$5kCivil Rights$4kReligion$4kArts & Culture$2kCommunity Improvement$1kHealth$611Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NJ
CA
CO
MD
AZ
KS
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Benjamin F Johnston Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetC G Jung Institute of Dallas: $4,252 over 8y, 100% of budgetScottsdale Christian Academy Inc: $3,003 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Aspen Animal Shelter: $2,227 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $1,815 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoma Foundation: $1,175 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTen Lives Club Inc: $775 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Naval Academy Music Inc: $747 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $611 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShade Project Inc: $565 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetShawnee Mission Education Foundation: $387 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Benjamin F Johnston Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Benjamin F Johnston Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Benjamin F Johnston Foundation

How much does Benjamin F Johnston Foundation give?
Benjamin F Johnston Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $3,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Benjamin F Johnston Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Animals (23%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Benjamin F Johnston Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: C G Jung Institute of Dallas ($4k), Scottsdale Christian Academy Inc ($3k), Friends of the Aspen Animal Shelter ($2k).
Does Benjamin F Johnston Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Benjamin F Johnston Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Benjamin F Johnston Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Benjamin F Johnston Foundation based?
Benjamin F Johnston Foundation is based in TX.

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 22 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.

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