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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $600k
- $250k+12 grants · $28M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUCCESS ACADEMY | $10,000,000 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $5,000,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $2,525,000 |
| GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE | $2,000,000 |
| MKE 2024 HOST COMMITTEE | $1,000,000 |
| NRDC | $830,000 |
| JOHNSON CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT | $800,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $300,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF FOUNDATION ACADEMIES | $250,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $100,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools - Nyc and the most unlike its peers is The Johnson Center for Child Health & Development Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 20 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 SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS - NYC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds The Johnson Center for Child Health & Development Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds The Friends of Foundation Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY ↗
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.
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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 Betty Wold 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Childrens Home Society of New Jersey — 43% of income from government
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% 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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