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Cdr Johnson Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Cdr Johnson Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$5.9MHealth$1.6MEducation$1.4MScience & Tech$595kHuman Services$435kYouth Development$220kAnimals$220kInternational$191kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $295k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $676k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAST FORWARD$100,567
ADDICTION EDUCATION SOCIETY$100,243
Individual grant recipient$100,000
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$75,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SF$50,250
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$50,250
VICTORIA'S VOICE FOUNDATION$50,000
THE BATTERY FOUNDATION$50,000
PRECEDE FOUNDATION$50,000
SUMMER SEARCH$50,000
COMMON SPIRIT HEALTH FOUNDATION$35,694
CENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN SECURITY$30,000
THE GUARDSMEN$25,000
CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO SPCA$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 (FY22–25, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CITY YOUTH NOW: $40k → 10%VICTORIA'S VOICE FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%COMMON SPIRIT: $50k → 8%CITY YOUTH NOW: $25k → 10%CITY YOUTH NOW: $25k → 10%CITY YOUTH NOW: $25k → 10%CITY YOUTH NOW: $25k → 10%CITY YOUTH NOW: $15k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%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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WA
IL
NY
MA
NV
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
DC
HI
LA
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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 47 repeat orgs$7.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
70

Total granted

$4.0M
$7.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

70%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
EducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AE
    ADDICTION EDUCATION SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $475k · revenue +369% · 64% of their budget
  • TS
    THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +13%
  • CY
    CITY YOUTH NOW FKA VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO
    4× · 2022–2025 · $155k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • CJ
    CE JOHNSON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5.4M · revenue -96% · 98% of their budget
  • TS
    THE SEMINAR NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +170%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
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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6
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
7
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health
8
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
9
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
10
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
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
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; the most unlike its peers is Cypress Lawn Heritage Foundation. 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

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 136 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/87
Grantees still filing
51/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CE JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $5,353,752 · PhilanthropyCE JOHNSON FOUNDATIONTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Philanthropy+12 more: $405,067 · Philanthropy+12 moreUSC: $250,000 · OtherUSCIndividual grant recipient: $225,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSILICON VALLEY DEFENSE GROUP: $210,000 · OtherSILICON VALLEY DEFENSE GROUPIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherSUMMER SEARCH: $110,000 · Other+75 more: $2,270,250 · Other+75 moreUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $250,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $200,000 · EducationTHE SEMINAR …CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $175,000 · EducationCULINARY INS…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $150,000 · EducationPresident an…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF…CURRIKI: $95,000 · EducationCURRIKISAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $93,499 · EducationSAN FRANCISC…THE BAY SCHOOL: $70,000 · Education+10 more: $182,000 · Education+10 moreADDICTION EDUCATION SOCIETY INC: $475,243 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $85,000 · HealthNARCONON LOUISIANA NEW LIFE RETREAT: $50,000 · HealthTHE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $26,000 · Health+7 more: $87,000 · HealthCITY YOUTH NOW FKA VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $155,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $100,000 · Human ServicesVICTORIA'S VOICE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOMMON SPIRIT: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $200,000 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $10,000 · AnimalsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100,000 · InternationalCenter for a New American Security Inc: $65,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $16,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Northern California: $10,000 · International+1 more: $2,000 · International
Philanthropy$6,008,819Other$3,215,250Education$1,315,749Health$758,243Human Services$355,000Animals$210,000International$203,000

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 budgetCE JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $5,353,752 over 1y, 98% of budgetADDICTION EDUCATION SOCIETY INC: $475,243 over 5y, 64% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $250,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YOUTH NOW FKA VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $155,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetFFWD: $150,567 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $110,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCURRIKI: $95,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $93,499 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $80,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe Guardsmen: $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL: $70,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN FRANCISCO: $70,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCenter for a New American Security Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMONSPIRIT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNARCONON LOUISIANA NEW LIFE RETREAT: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOWELL CONSERVATION FUND INC: $40,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCollaborative Support Services Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST SERVE-NM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFamily Life Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNeighbors for a Better San Francisco: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetState Financial Officers Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUniversalGiving: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSHERWOOD FORESTRY SERVICE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEthical Ai Governance Group Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANTA FE OPERA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMINAR: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Ce Johnson FoundationMarin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…The Stanley S Langend…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Draper FoundationTides FoundationBothin FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…McNabb Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA25× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Ce Johnson Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Draper Foundation · Tides Foundation · Bothin Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · McNabb 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 Cdr Johnson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cdr Johnson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 Cdr Johnson Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Cdr Johnson Family Foundation Inc 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 136 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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