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Edwin M Johnston Jr 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.

$298k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$366kHuman Services$330kEnvironment$229kArts & Culture$159kAnimals$103kRecreation & Sports$80kHealth$66kReligion$61kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $260k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NICHOLS SCHOOL$37,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$30,000
PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS$30,000
ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC$23,000
THE PARK SCHOOL$19,779
THE SALVATION ARMY$15,000
THE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC$15,000
BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLUFFTON$15,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED INC$10,000
PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD$10,000
THE TRUSTEES$10,000
ART FOR ALL$10,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 7%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $30k → 14%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 7%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 7%ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC: $50k → 8%ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC: $45k → 8%ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC: $35k → 8%HOSPICE BUFFALO: $15k → 13%ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC: $35k → 8%HOSPICE BUFFALO: $5k → 13%ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC: $30k → 8%ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC: $23k → 8%THE CONCORD CHILDRENS CENTER: $5k → 8%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $5k → 13%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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IL
NY
MA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
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VA
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SC
TX
FL

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 38 repeat orgs$320k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
20

Total granted

$1.3M
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

71%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • RT
    ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $218k · revenue +69%
  • NS
    NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO
    3× · 2020–2025 · $79k · revenue +34%
  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Inc
    3× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $72k
  • WT
    Wright Tavern Legacy Trust
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • UU
    UNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue +31%

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
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
4
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
5
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
6
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
7
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
8
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
9
Zoological Society of Buffalo Inc

Building community; creating connections; saving wildlife through a collaboration for change: the buffalo zoo will be a center of conservation excellence, providing leadership to secure a future where wildlife thrives. we embody our…

Animals
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
12
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Buffalo and Erie County and the most unlike its peers is Art for All. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Construc…Cancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Independent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Arts CentersImmigrant Worker SupportUnited Way AffiliatesHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Addiction Recovery Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,706

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 71 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
27/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE PARK SCHOOL — $95,779 · OtherTHE PARK SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $72,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWESTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $53,749 · OtherWESTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC — $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $33,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $32,000 · OtherCHARTER SCHOOL APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES — $30,000 · OtherBUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $34,000 · OtherRAINFOREST TRUST — $30,000 · OtherDIGNITY IN ASYLUM INC — $32,000 · OtherPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Other+27 more — $227,500 · Other+27 moreROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC — $218,000 · Human ServicesROAD TO RESPONSIBIL…Partnership With Native Americans — $30,000 · Human ServicesPartnership With Na…HOSPICE BUFFALO INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE BUFFALO INCTommy's Place Foundation Inc — $12,000 · Human Services+2 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesDucks Unlimited Inc — $55,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimi…THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES…BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC — $35,000 · EnvironmentBUFFALO NIAG…OARS INC — $32,000 · EnvironmentOARS INC+1 more — $5,000 · EnvironmentBUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC — $54,756 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO OLMS…BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY — $45,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE…FRACTURED ATLAS INC — $29,898 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED AT…ASSEMBLY HOUSE 150 INC — $20,100 · Arts & CultureASSEMBLY HOU…COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $17,500 · Arts & CultureCOTUIT CENTE…Saturn Club Historic Preservation Foundation — $6,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $2,500 · Arts & CultureNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO — $78,500 · EducationNICHOLS SC…ELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC — $38,500 · EducationELMWOOD-FR…TABOR ACADEMY — $15,000 · EducationTABOR ACAD…BUFFALO SEMINARY — $13,000 · EducationBUFFALO SE…+1 more — $2,000 · EducationTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $55,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY — $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children Inc — $13,000 · PhilanthropyCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $9,525 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC — $25,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $10,000 · HealthART FOR ALL — $10,000 · Health
Other$700,028Human Services$290,000Environment$177,000Arts & Culture$176,254Education$147,000Philanthropy$110,025Health$55,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC — $218,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO — $78,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC — $54,756 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC — $38,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $34,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetOARS INC — $32,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetDIGNITY IN ASYLUM INC — $32,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $29,898 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC — $21,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetASSEMBLY HOUSE 150 INC — $20,100 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE BUFFALO INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWright Tavern Legacy Trust — $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children Inc — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO SEMINARY — $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTommy's Place Foundation Inc — $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetART FOR ALL — $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetBUFFALO PREP INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $9,525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaturn Club Historic Preservation Foundation — $6,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMahoosuc Land Trust Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE NATURAL HISTORY OBSERVATORY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBuffalo Bills Alumni Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNIAGARA GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOcean Voyages Institute — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSADIE NASH LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Foundation for Jewish…The Marks Family Foun…The Osc Charitable Fo…Rich Family FoundationThe Baird FoundationThe Ralph C Wilson Jr…Mulroy Family Foundat…The Spofford Foundati…Children's Foundation…The Margaret L Wendt …The Western New York …
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY28.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Marks Family Foundation · The Osc Charitable Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · The Baird Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Mulroy Family Foundation · The Spofford Foundation Inc · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · The Western New York Foundation

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 Edwin M Johnston Jr Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 92%
  • Oars Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Wright Tavern Legacy Trust — 100% of income from government
  • Road to Responsibility Inc — 92% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 71 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.

Source object · view filing

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