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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| C G JUNG INSTITUTE OF DALLAS | $375 |
| CARES FOUNDATION | $375 |
| AZ HUMANE SOCIETY | $375 |
| TEN LIVES CLUB | $375 |
| MSIA | $375 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $375 |
| LET'S BE BETTER HUMANS PROJECT | $375 |
| Individual grant recipient | $188 |
| SHAWNEE MISSION EDUCATION FUND | $187 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of your 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.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CGC G JUNG INSTITUTE OF DALLAS8× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +109% · 100% of their budget
- SCSCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $3k · revenue +124%
Southern Methodist University4× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF NAVAL ACADEMY MUSIC INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $747 · revenue +383%
- FOFIRENDS OF ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2020 · $625
- AAAspen Animal Shelterone grant, 2018 · $625
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.
Support men's and women's intercollegiate golf programs at SMU
To support the educational and scientific purposes of the society of american military engineers.
Insead North America Inc, ("INA") employs U. S. resident professors to teach courses at Insead University in Paris, France, and INA conducts Executive Education programs to further support INSEAD's mission and development.
The mission of the institute of musical art (ima) is support of the juilliard school (juilliard), a 501(c)(3) exempt organization through annual distributions from the ima's endowment funds.
The University of Santa Monica is dedicated to communicating the principles and practices of spiritual psychology worldwide through the process of soul-centered education.
Incorporated in 1952 as a non-profit organization, siam has worked toward the following goals for more than 70 years:-to advance the application of mathematics and computational science to engineering, industry, science, and society;-to…
To discover and expose environmental threats to people and wildlife through innovative science and to engage in global partnerships to improve human and ecological health. the institute produces scientific research that drives change and…
The mission of samford university is to nurture persons in their development of intellect, creativity, faith, and personhood. as a christian university, the community fosters academic, career, and ethical competency while encouraging…
To support education missions of the ksu foundation and kansas state university by providing funding to the ksu carl r. ice college of engineering.
See schedule oorganization's missionasu enterprise partners serves as the resource-raising arm of arizona state university. as the parent organization of five nonprofits that are each tasked with identifying new revenue opportunities, asu…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the organization is to act as a major source of news relating to or of interest to the stanford university community and to provide an educational opportunity to stanford university students in journalistic writing,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shade Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 22 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 C G JUNG INSTITUTE OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds BOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEN LIVES CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NAVAL ACADEMY MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SHADE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SHAWNEE MISSION EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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 Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Benjamin F Johnston 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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