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Edith Johnston Memorial Fund

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.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Arts & Culture$46kYouth Development$10kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$74k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIRCUS CITY FESTIVAL INC$2,250
Individual grant recipient$2,000
WENATCHEE YOUTH CIRCUS$2,000
BINDLESTIFF FAMILY VARIETY ARTS INC$2,000
CIRCUS FANS ASSOC OF AMERICA$1,750
CIRCUS HARMONY$1,750
THE CIRCUS ARTS PLACE$1,500
CATS CIRC TRAV SHOW RET PROJECT$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 57% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CIRCADIUM: $2k → 22%BINDLESTIFF FAMILY VARIETY ARTS INC: $3k → 17%CIRCUS SENSE: $2k → 20%CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY: $2k → 9%CIRCUS FANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $3k → 12%CIRCUS HARMONY: $2k → 21%CIRCUS FANS ASSOC OF AMERICA: $2k → 9%MADISON CIRCUS SPACE INC: $2k → 10%CIRCUS CITY FESTIVAL INC: $2k → 14%FRENCH LICK WEST BADEN MUSEUM: $500 → 15%CIRCUS FANS ASSOC OF AMERICA: $812 → 13%CIRCADIUM: $750 → 22%BINDLESTIFF FAMILY VARIETY ARTS INC: $2k → 17%OMNIUM CIRCUS: $2k → 20%CIRCUS HARMONY: $2k → 21%CIRCUS CITY FESTIVAL INC: $2k → 14%BINDLESTIFF FAMILY VARIETY ARTS INC: $2k → 17%CIRCUS HARMONY: $2k → 21%CIRCUS CITY FESTIVAL INC: $2k → 14%CIRCUS HARMONY: $2k → 21%INTERNAT CIRCUS HALL OF FAME: $2k → 14%CIRCUS HARMONY: $2k → 21%CIRCUS CITY FESTIVAL INC: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$51k · 8 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$51k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+24%

Still filing today

75%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • WY
    WENATCHEE YOUTH CIRCUS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +61%
  • CC
    CIRCUS CITY FESTIVAL INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +16%
  • BF
    Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • CI
    CIRCUSENSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +27%
  • MC
    MADISON CIRCUS SPACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +166%
  • CH
    CIRCUS HALL OF FAME INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Cirquelouis Co

To foster the celebration, preservation and growth of the Circus Arts through creative community performance, and through our Circus Strong Academy and Social Circus programs, provide alternative and artistic physical activity promoting…

Arts & Culture
2
Contemporary Circus and Immersive Arts Center

The mission of the contemporary circus and immersive arts center is to promote, produce, and present contemporary circus and other immersive arts.

Arts & Culture
3
Circus Center

To inspire passion for the circus arts through training, performance, and community engagement. In FY24, we provided 6,000 classes to 25,000+ trainees, produced 24 shows, and provided sustained enrichment activities to dozens of…

Arts & Culture
4
Circus Cascadia

Arts education

Arts & Culture
5
Social Cirkish Foundation
Youth Development
6
Circus Up Inc

Circus up uses arts to overcome social barriers and build community with people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities.

Recreation & Sports
7
American Youth Circus Organization

Our mission is to empower, support, and advocate for circus arts education and learners.

Youth Development
8
Yes Maam Circus
9
Circus Historical Society Inc

To form a consolidated group of students and individuals who have an interest in the history of the circus and allied arts, and to expand and perpetuate the knowledge thereof. to enhance public awareness of circus history as a unique part…

Arts & Culture
10
Circus Mentors Inc

Promotion of arts through education and performance.

Arts & Culture
11
New England Center for Circus Arts Inc

Provide high quality circus arts training for students and artists while facilitating greater access and programming to everyone.

Arts & Culture
12
The Circus Ring of Fame Foundation Inc

To honor those who have made an important contribution to the american circus and preserve the history and traditional values of the circus

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Circus Harmony and the most unlike its peers is French Lick West Baden Cultural Ctr. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CIRCUS HARMONY — $9,600 · Arts & CultureCIRCUS HARMONYWENATCHEE YOUTH CIRCUS INC — $7,850 · Arts & CultureWENATCHEE YOUTH CIRCUS INCCIRCUS CITY FESTIVAL INC — $6,850 · Arts & CultureCIRCUS CITY FESTIVAL INCBindlestiff Family Variety Arts Inc — $6,500 · Arts & CultureBindlestiff Family Variety Arts IncCIRCUS FANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $5,562 · Arts & CultureCIRCUS FANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICACIRCUS HALL OF FAME INC — $1,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureCATS CIRC TRAV SHOW RET PROJECT — $8,200 · OtherCATS CIRC TRAV SHOW RET PROJECTTHE CIRCUS ARTS PLACE — $3,750 · OtherTHE CIRCUS ARTS PLACEIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCIRCUSENSE INC — $2,000 · OtherCIRCUSENSE INCIndividual grant recipient — $750 · OtherCIRCADIUM — $2,250 · EducationTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC — $1,500 · EducationMADISON CIRCUS SPACE INC — $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$38,362Other$16,700Education$3,750Recreation & Sports$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCIRCUS HARMONY — $9,600 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWENATCHEE YOUTH CIRCUS INC — $7,850 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetCIRCUS CITY FESTIVAL INC — $6,850 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBindlestiff Family Variety Arts Inc — $6,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCIRCUS FANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $5,562 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetCIRCADIUM — $2,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCIRCUSENSE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMADISON CIRCUS SPACE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCIRCUS HALL OF FAME INC — $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRENCH LICK WEST BADEN CULTURAL CTR — $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Edith Johnston Memorial Fund 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Edith Johnston Memorial Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Edith Johnston Memorial Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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