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Edwin M Johnston Jr Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS$30,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$30,000
ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC$23,000
THE PARK SCHOOL$19,779
THE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC$15,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLUFFTON$15,000
BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC$15,000
THE TRUSTEES$10,000
PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD$10,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED INC$10,000
ART FOR ALL$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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%THE CONCORD CHILDRENS CENTER: $5k → 8%ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC: $30k → 8%ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC: $23k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
NY
MA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
TN
SC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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

+15%
-1%

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
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.

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 Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +67%
  • UU
    UNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $13k · 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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Buffalo and Erie County; 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.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
27/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetDIGNITY IN ASYLUM INC: $32,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetOARS INC: $32,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWright Tavern Legacy Trust: $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetGIRLS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO PREP INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART FOR ALL: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budget
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.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Edwin M Johnston Jr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwin M Johnston Jr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 71 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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