· Private foundation
Collins Johnson Family Foundation Don Johnson
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIT CARSON RURAL DEVELOPMENT | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW | $10,000 |
| FORT HAYES STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +319% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $149k · revenue -30%
- KCKIT CARSON RURAL DEVELOPMENT4× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +319%
- KCKIT CARSON SCHOOL DISTRICT R-13× · 2017–2019 · $12k
Funded once
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +32%- OPOKLAHOMA PANHANDLE STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $3k
- ASADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -31%
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.
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.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Founded by the norwegian evangelical lutheran church in 1861, luther college is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution. luther welcomes students of all backgrounds to engage in a way of learning that moves beyond immediate…
Mission statement: an inclusive, catholic, and diocesan community of learners, st. ambrose university empowers all ambrosians to act courageously, to seek wisdom through faith and reason, to work for justice, and to lead lives of service.…
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…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
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.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIT CARSON RURAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
- Who funds University of Mary ↗
- Who funds LAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Collins Johnson Family Foundation Don Johnson funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Collins Johnson Family Foundation Don Johnson. Bigger dots raise more.
- Willamette University: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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