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Bud & Norma Johnson Family Foundati

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$42k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of BUD & NORMA JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATI’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$275k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIGERTOWN FOOD PANTRY$10,000
CASA OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY$5,000
ANNUNCIATION MATERNITY HOME$3,500
THE GEORGETOWN PROJECT$3,000
ISAIAH 117 HOUSE$3,000
GEORGETOWN BACKPACK BUDDIES$2,500
FRIENDS OF WILLIAMSON CTY CHILD WEL$2,500
ROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS$2,500
YOUNG LIFE - GEORGETOWN$2,000
HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN$2,000
CHASE THE CHIEF$1,500
HOPE HOUSE$1,500
THE CARING PLACE$1,500
ALLY'S WISH$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Helping Hands of Georgetown: $2k → 6%HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN: $2k → 6%HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN: $2k → 6%Helping Hands of Georgetown: $1k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$288k · 23 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against -40% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
3

Total granted

$288k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
-40%

Still filing today

52%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TM
    TIGERTON MAIN STREET INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $32k · revenue +55%
  • TA
    THE ANNUNCIATION MATERNITY HOME INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +84%
  • CO
    CASA of Williamson County Texas
    5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +210%

Funded once

  • RR
    ROUND ROCK POLICE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -40%
  • BI
    Blue Iron LEMC-Bastrop Blue Santa
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Lullaby House

The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.

Youth Development
2
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

3
Abigail's Place

Committed to supporting displaced single mothers in Fort Bend County by providing housing assistance and wraparound services.

Housing & Shelter
4
Family Promise of Bryan-College Station

To assist homeless families in securing stable housing

Housing & Shelter
5
Grace House Texarkana Inc

Grace House exists to rescue and advocate for women and families at risk.

Housing & Shelter
6
Our Friends Place

Our Friends Place is dedicated to helping young women break the generational cycles of abuse, neglect, poverty and homelessness through empowering self-reliance and independence.

7
Tip of Texas Family Outreach Inc

To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

8
Casa Child Advocates of Montgomery County Inc

Child Advocates of Montgomery County empowers vulnerable children through volunteer advocacy and strengthens their family and community with education, so they can flourish in a safe, nurturing environment.

Civil Rights
9
Lone Star Casa Inc

Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…

Civil Rights
10
Georgetown Caring Place

The organization is a non-profit texas corporation established in 1986 to carry out a community-wide mission of churches, other organizations, and individuals serving human needs in the city of georgetown and surrounding areas. the…

Community Improvement
11
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
12
Friendship House Corporation

The Friendship House provides assistance and support to the families of children with special needs.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pediplace Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Tigerton Food Pantry — $28,500 · OtherTigerton Food PantryTIGERTOWN FOOD PANTRY — $20,000 · OtherTIGERTOWN FOOD PANTRYFRIENDS OF WILLIAMSON CTY CHILD WEL — $14,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF WILLIAMSON CTY CHILD WELThe Caring Place — $10,500 · OtherThe Caring PlaceCHASE THE CHIEF — $9,000 · OtherCHASE THE CHIEFYoung Life - Georgetown-Young Lives — $8,000 · OtherYoung Life - Georgetown-Young LivesProject Care Case — $7,000 · OtherProject Care CaseYoung Life - Georgetown — $7,000 · OtherYoung Life - GeorgetownIndividual grant recipient — $6,000 · OtherPEDIPLACE INC — $6,000 · OtherChisholm Trail Community Foundation — $5,500 · Other+3 more — $4,500 · OtherTHE ANNUNCIATION MATERNITY HOME INC — $30,500 · PhilanthropyTHE ANNUNCIATIO…Georgetown Backpack Buddies — $8,800 · PhilanthropyGeorgetown Back…DENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesDENTON COUNTY …ALLY S WISH INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesALLY S WISH IN…ISAIAH 117 HOUSE — $8,150 · Human ServicesISAIAH 117 HOU…HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS …TIGERTON MAIN STREET INC — $32,000 · Community ImprovementTIGERTON MAI…LONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS INC — $9,000 · Recreation & SportsCASA of Williamson County Texas — $18,772 · Crime & LegalThe Georgetown Project — $17,000 · HealthHOPE HOUSE INC — $1,500 · HealthROUND ROCK POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Public Benefit
Other$126,000Philanthropy$39,300Human Services$38,150Community Improvement$32,000Recreation & Sports$19,000Crime & Legal$18,772Health$18,500Public Benefit$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTIGERTON MAIN STREET INC — $32,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetTHE ANNUNCIATION MATERNITY HOME INC — $30,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCASA of Williamson County Texas — $18,772 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Georgetown Project — $17,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetDENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALLY S WISH INC — $11,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $10,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS INC — $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgetown Backpack Buddies — $8,800 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE — $8,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC — $7,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPEDIPLACE INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROUND ROCK POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 41% of budget
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 TIGERTON MAIN STREET INC
  • Who funds THE ANNUNCIATION MATERNITY HOME INC
  • Who funds CASA of Williamson County Texas
  • Who funds The Georgetown Project
  • Who funds DENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC
  • Who funds ALLY S WISH INC
  • Who funds LONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS
  • Who funds ROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS INC
  • Who funds Georgetown Backpack Buddies
  • Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE
  • Who funds HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC
  • Who funds PEDIPLACE INC
  • Who funds ROUND ROCK POLICE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC

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.

Georgetown Healthcare System IncTX17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgetown Healthcare System Inc · Georgetown Area Community Foundation · Central Texas Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · W D Kelley Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Bud & Norma Johnson Family Foundati 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bud & Norma Johnson Family Foundati?

    Find your warmest path to Bud & Norma Johnson Family Foundati 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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