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C and a Johnson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Public Benefit$5.2MEducation$4.6MArts & Culture$4.3MHealth$3.6MPhilanthropy$1.7MInternational$1.5MReligion$1.3MAnimals$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $633k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $855k
$17,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC$150,000
MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL$150,000
INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$100,000
BUCKLEY INSTITUTE$100,000
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION$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
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION$25,000
NEW ENGLAND ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC$25,000
PENINSULA BIBLE CHURCH$25,000
WORLD VISION$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ELM INSITUTE INC: $150k → 12%MADE IN THE STREETS: $120k → 4%MADE IN THE STREETS: $70k → 4%SCALA FOUNDATION: $55k → 11%MADE IN THE STREETS: $60k → 4%SCALA FOUNDATION: $55k → 11%MADE IN THE STREETS: $60k → 4%SCALA FOUNDATION: $55k → 11%MADE IN THE STREETS: $60k → 4%SCALA FOUNDATION: $55k → 11%MADE IN THE STREETS: $55k → 4%SCALA FOUNDATION: $55k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE INC: $5k → 11%MADE IN THE STREETS: $45k → 4%SCALA FOUNDATION: $55k → 11%CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC: $10k → 11%HELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN ATRISK: $6k → 8%CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC: $6k → 11%HELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN ATRISK: $5k → 8%CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC: $5k → 11%HELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN ATRISK: $5k → 8%CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC: $5k → 11%CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC: $5k → 11%CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
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NY
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PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
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VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 83 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
73

Total granted

$20M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+27%

Still filing today

73%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $4.5M · revenue +190%
  • TP
    THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2.1M · revenue +5%
  • HH
    HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $585k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • SU
    STETSON UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.9M · revenue -9%
  • FF
    Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +22%
  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue ×45 · 90% of their budget
How this is measured

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

04Its field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International
3
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
4
Furman University

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.

Education
5
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

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,…

International
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
7
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

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…

Social Science
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Npr Foundation

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…

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10
University of New Haven

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…

Education
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
12
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

126 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. 126 of the 168 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/126
Grantees still filing
92/126
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TURNING POINT USA INC: $4,510,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCMAYO CLINIC: $3,173,500 · OtherMAYO CLINICFROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $1,500,000 · OtherFROST SCHOOL OF MUSICPEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF PB: $908,000 · OtherPEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF PB+105 more: $5,878,650 · Other+105 moreTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $2,100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARM…THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $165,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PALM BEA…NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $135,000 · Arts & CultureEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMORY'S PRESERVATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $305,500 · Arts & Culture+12 moreFoundation For Excellence in Higher Education: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyFoundation …BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyBRADLEY IMP…VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER F…+7 more: $270,000 · Philanthropy+7 moreSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $1,905,000 · EducationSTETSON UNI…BUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC: $135,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $120,000 · EducationTHE BASIC FUND: $100,000 · EducationENTITLEMENTS HOW INC: $100,000 · Education+14 more: $297,000 · Education+14 moreMADE IN THE STREETS: $470,000 · Human ServicesScala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation: $330,000 · Human ServicesElm Institute Inc: $150,000 · Human ServicesCHILD RESCUE COALITION INC: $36,000 · Human Services+3 more: $22,000 · Human ServicesHEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC: $585,000 · InternationalMEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL: $190,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $121,000 · International+2 more: $48,000 · InternationalKELSEY: $400,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$15,970,150Arts & Culture$2,905,500Philanthropy$2,770,000Education$2,657,000Human Services$1,008,000International$944,000Housing & Shelter$400,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $4,510,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $2,100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $1,905,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFoundation For Excellence in Higher Education: $1,000,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC: $585,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 90% of budgetMADE IN THE STREETS: $470,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetKELSEY: $400,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetScala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation: $330,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetNEW ENGLAND ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $325,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetAMERICAN IDEA FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $190,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetMEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL: $190,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFIRST RESORT DBA SUPPORT CIRCLE PREGNANCY CLINICS: $182,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetStreetlife Ministries: $172,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $165,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE: $150,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetElm Institute Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetAtlas Economic Research Foundation: $140,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC: $135,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $121,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $120,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMORY'S PRESERVATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOMMON SENSE SOCIETY: $100,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BASIC FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetENTITLEMENTS HOW INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $72,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SNOW FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetPebble Beach Company Foundation: $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $50,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGLENBROOK UNDERGROUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS: $50,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetTHE ALBERT F EGAN JR & DOROTHY H EGAN F: $42,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budget
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.

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.

Donors Trust IncSarah Scaife Foundati…The Lynde and Harry B…Bradley Impact Fund I…Silicon Valley Commun…Thomas W Smith Founda…Diana Davis Spencer F…Adolph Coors Foundati…The San Francisco Fou…Garvey Kansas Foundat…Ebs FoundationWoodford Foundation
Donors Trust IncVA35.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization C and a Johnson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C and a Johnson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to C and a Johnson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to C and a Johnson Family 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.

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 168 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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