· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UNICEF USA | $300,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $250,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF FOUNDATION ACADEMIES | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS - NYC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- 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 The Friends of Foundation Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Betty Wold Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Betty Wold Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Childrens Home Society of New Jersey: 43% of income from government
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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