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Betty Wold Johnson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$29M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$300,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$875M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Betty Wold Johnson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$29M95%
FY20232$306k50%
FY20221$20Mn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Environment$21MEducation$15MRecreation & Sports$5.0MPhilanthropy$2.5MArts & Culture$2.0MHealth$1.1MScience & Tech$1.0MInternational$756kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($24M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Betty Wold Johnson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSuccess Academy Charter Schools - NYC: $10,000,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTrustees of Deerfield Academy: $5,000,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $5,000,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGrounds for Sculpture Inc: $2,000,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $830,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Johnson Center for Child Health & Development Inc: $800,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Friends of Foundation Academy Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmigos of Costa Rica Inc: $206,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetYonkers Partners in Education Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Doe Fund Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Childrens Home Society of New Jersey: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 14.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Betty Wold Johnson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Betty Wold Johnson 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 Betty Wold Johnson Foundation

How much does Betty Wold Johnson Foundation give?
Betty Wold Johnson Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $28,886,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Betty Wold Johnson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (43%), Education (31%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
Who are Betty Wold Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Success Academy Charter Schools - NYC ($10M), Trustees of Deerfield Academy ($5.0M), Central Park Conservancy Inc ($5.0M).
Does Betty Wold Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Betty Wold Johnson 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 Betty Wold Johnson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Betty Wold Johnson Foundation based?
Betty Wold Johnson Foundation is based in FL.

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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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