· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
- FFFairview Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $523k · revenue -82%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC4× · 2020–2023 · $240k · revenue +21%- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $80k
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $170k · revenue -12%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION MFFV SOUTHDALE HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $165k
- IAINTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF WOMENIN FIRE & EMERGENCY SVone grant, 2017 · $60k
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.
To assist individuals with cancer and life-limiting illnesses
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.
MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.
Bringing people together to build homes, communities and hope. building homes for the underprivileged.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and 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.
15 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. 15 of the 41 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Charles & Andriene Johnson 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.