· Private foundation
C Richard Johnson & Verna Louise Johnson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of C RICHARD JOHNSON & VERNA LOUISE JOHNSON FOUNDATION INC’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $291k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSION FIRST INC | $115,000 |
| BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRY INC | $40,000 |
| YOUTH FIRST | $35,000 |
| WARRICK COUNTY SCHOOL CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| VETERANS OVERWATCH | $25,000 |
| WARRICK COUNTY MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $19,107 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,500 |
| HEMENWAY MEMORIAL PRES CHURCH | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE | $15,000 |
| THE TOWN OF GRANDVIEW | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA | $14,111 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOPE CENTRAL | $10,000 |
| EVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% 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.
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.
52 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- BOBread of Life Ministry Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $357k · revenue +11%
- YFYOUTH FIRST9× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +83%
- WCWARRICK COUNTY MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +777% · 53% of their budget
Funded once
- SSIRSone grant, 2018 · $27k
- LSLYNNVILLE SUMMER LEAGUEone grant, 2019 · $20k
- SBSPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $16k
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
Education
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olivet Nazarene University and the most unlike its peers is Warrick County Casa Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 80 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 Bread of Life Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FIRST ↗
- Who funds POINT MAN INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BOONVILLE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds WARRICK COUNTY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds MISSION FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds United Methodist Youth Home Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH SPENCER COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EWM INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SPENCER COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds WARRICK COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OVERWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN INDIANA 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: Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Koch Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · James R Duncan Trust Uw Fifth Third · West Side Nut Club Inc · The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Kinney Family Foundation · Holiday Management Foundation · Edward Love 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 Richard Johnson & Verna Louise Johnson Foundation Inc 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.
- Eckerd College — 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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