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Dale & Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation

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.

$142k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$46,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Dale & Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$142k16%
FY202418$135k11%
FY202318$127k17%
FY202219$111k11%
FY202117$88k18%
FY202014$92k7%
FY201915$97k33%
FY201811$98k9%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$239kHuman Services$220kPhilanthropy$135kHealth$129kEducation$104kReligion$68kInternational$47kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CA
MO
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of Dale & Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gary Sinise Foundation$145,00080%
St Francis House Inc$75,00090%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$50,00060%
Samaritan's Purse$47,00050%
University of Pittsburgh$42,70090%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$39,00090%
The V Foundation$30,00030%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$25,00050%
Breakthrough T1d$15,00010%
American Institute for Cancer Research$10,00020%
Episcopal Relief and Development$8,00070%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,00050%
Little Rock Compassion Center$4,0003n/a
Parish Episcopal School$2,00020%
Arkansas Association of Black Psychology Professionals$2,0001n/a
A-Camp Inc$1,00011%
K9s for Warriors Inc$1,00010%
Arkansas Hospice Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($472k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dale & Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $145,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSt Francis House Inc: $75,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $47,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $42,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $39,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe V Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Institute for Cancer Research: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEpiscopal Relief and Development: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetParish Episcopal School: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA-Camp Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArkansas Hospice Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Dale & Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation

How much does Dale & Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation give?
Dale & Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $141,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dale & Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Human Services (23%), Philanthropy (14%).
Who are Dale & Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gary Sinise Foundation ($145k), St Francis House Inc ($75k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($50k).
Does Dale & Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dale & Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dale & Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Dale & Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation based?
Dale & Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation is based in AR.

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 31 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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