· Private foundation
C and a Johnson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $633k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $855k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC | $150,000 |
| MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL | $150,000 |
| INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $100,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $100,000 |
| BUCKLEY INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| REDWOOD CHURCH | $80,000 |
| MADE IN THE STREETS | $70,000 |
| SCALA FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| CHURCH OF CHRIST IN EASTWOOD EL PASO TX | $50,000 |
| EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREP | $30,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| EISENHOWER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND | $25,000 |
| ST DOROTHY'S REST ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| COMMON SENSE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k 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
- TPTURNING POINT USA INC4× · 2020–2023 · $4.5M · revenue +190%
- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $2.1M · revenue +5%
- HHHEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $585k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- SUSTETSON UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2021 · $1.9M · revenue -9%
- FFFoundation For Excellence in Higher Educationone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +22%
- VFVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue ×45 · 90% of their budget
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Albert F Egan Jr & Dorothy H Egan F. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
126 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. 126 of the 168 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 TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADE IN THE STREETS ↗
- Who funds KELSEY ↗
- Who funds Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN IDEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FIRST RESORT DBA SUPPORT CIRCLE PREGNANCY CLINICS ↗
- Who funds Streetlife Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Elm Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Atlas Economic Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds BUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENTITLEMENTS HOW INC ↗
- Who funds MORY'S PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds EDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE 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.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · Adolph Coors Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Garvey Kansas Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Woodford 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 C and a Johnson Family 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Child Rescue Coalition Inc — 20% of income from government
- Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Town Hall Theater Inc — 11% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope 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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