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Charles & Andriene Johnson Foundation at a glance

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Charles & Andriene Johnson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$278k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$845kPublic Safety & Disaster$395kEducation$295kFood & Nutrition$144kHuman Services$110kCivil Rights$75kHousing & Shelter$68kArts & Culture$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE BWCAW$75,000
EMPTY SOUP BOWLS OF COOK COUNTY$50,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
LUTSEN FIRE RELIEF FUND$20,000
CRESCENT COVE$20,000
EDEN PRAIRIE FIREFIGHTERS RELIEF$15,000
QUARTERBACK CLUB$15,000
CARE PARTNERS OF COOK COUNTY$10,000
HAMILTON HABITAT$8,000
LA ACADEMIA$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WALKING WITH A PURPOSE MN: $10k → 14%CRESCENT COVE: $20k → 11%CARE PARTNERS OF COOK COUNTY: $10k → 9%BRIGHTER DAYS FAMILY GRIEF CENTER: $50k → 11%BRIGHTER DAYS FAMILY GRIEF CENTER: $30k → 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.
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 11 repeat orgs$964k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
22

Total granted

$1.3M
$796k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+45%

Still filing today

45%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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 ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • FF
    Fairview Foundation
    4× · 2017–2020 · $523k · revenue -82%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $240k · revenue +21%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $80k

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $170k · revenue -12%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION MFFV SOUTHDALE HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $165k
  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF WOMENIN FIRE & EMERGENCY SV
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
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
Care Partners

To assist individuals with cancer and life-limiting illnesses

Health
2
Covenant House Chicago
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3
Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation Inc
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4
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
5
Cook County Chamber
Philanthropy
6
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
7
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
8
East Central Minnesota Habitat for Humanity Inc

Bringing people together to build homes, communities and hope. building homes for the underprivileged.

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9
Care in Action Minnesota

Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, strengthen families and prevent childhood maltreatment, by providing timely crucial support that meets the basic needs of local families and…

Human Services
10
Minnesota Colon and Rectal Foundation
Health
11
Southwest Minnesota Pride
Civil Rights
12
Partners for Affordable Housing

Partners for Affordable Housing is missioned to provide shelter for homeless families and individuals and help them secure economically viable long term housing. The Organization owns and operates a number of scattered site housing…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Empty Bowls Cook County. 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

15 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. 15 of the 41 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION MFFV SOUTHDALE HOSPITAL: $165,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION MFFV SOUTHDALE HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS OF THE BWCAW: $75,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE BWCAWEMPTY SOUP BOWLS OF COOK COUNTY: $70,000 · OtherEMPTY SOUP BOWLS OF COOK COUNTYUNIVERSITY OF MNUMF 1846REGENTS OF THE U OF M: $65,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MNUMF 1846REGENTS OF THE U OF MMINNESOTA LYME ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · OtherMINNESOTA LYME ASSOCIATIONINTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF WOMENIN FIRE & EMERGENCY SV: $60,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF WOMENIN FIRE & EMERGENCY SVUNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION ONCOLOGY: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION EMPATH: $47,000 · OtherEMPTY BOWLS COOK COUNTY: $47,000 · OtherEDEN PRAIRIE FIRE RELIEF STATION 1: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $35,500 · Other+17 more: $254,000 · Other+17 moreFairview Foundation: $523,267 · HealthFairview FoundationWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $240,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRA…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $170,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…MARIA PEW FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MARIA'S VOICE: $15,000 · EducationMARIA PEW…BRIGHTER DAYS FAMILY GRIEF CENTER: $80,000 · Human ServicesCRESCENT COVE: $20,000 · Human ServicesCare Partners of Cook County: $10,000 · Human ServicesWALKING WITH A PURPOSE MN: $10,000 · Human ServicesOnward Eden Prairie: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHAMILTON HABITAT INC: $8,000 · Housing & ShelterPUBLIC FUNCTIONARY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCASCADES RAPTOR CENTER: $10,000 · Animals
Other$1,048,500Health$523,267International$240,000Education$185,000Human Services$120,000Housing & Shelter$58,000Arts & Culture$30,000Animals$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFairview Foundation: $523,267 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $240,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTER DAYS FAMILY GRIEF CENTER: $80,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetOnward Eden Prairie: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetEMPTY BOWLS COOK COUNTY: $47,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetDISTRICT 279 FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetWOMEN IN FIRE: $20,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCRESCENT COVE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARIA PEW FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MARIA'S VOICE: $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCASCADES RAPTOR CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCare Partners of Cook County: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHAMILTON HABITAT INC: $8,000 over 1y, 4.8% 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.

  • Who funds Fairview Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTER DAYS FAMILY GRIEF CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Onward Eden Prairie ↗
  • Who funds EMPTY BOWLS COOK COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds DISTRICT 279 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN IN FIRE ↗
  • Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
  • Who funds MARIA PEW FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MARIA'S VOICE ↗
  • Who funds CASCADES RAPTOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Care Partners of Cook County ↗
  • Who funds WALKING WITH A PURPOSE MN ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON HABITAT INC ↗

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.

Xcel Energy FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Mightycause Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Xcel Energy FoundationMN14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Charles & Andriene Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles & Andriene Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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