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Everett H Johnston Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$98kPhilanthropy$28kHealth$14kYouth Development$9kHuman Services$4kCrime & Legal$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ms Brooke's Classroom Scholarship$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Knight Foundry Museum$700
Sutter Creek Community Benefit Foun$250
Park County FFA Future Farmers of A$150
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Lincoln Hills Foundation: $2k → 6%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $50 → 9%Lincoln Hills Foundation: $250 → 6%Girls Inc of Alameda County: $2k → 10%Lincoln Hills Foundation: $250 → 6%Girls Inc of Alameda County: $2k → 10%Girls Inc of Alameda County: $1k → 10%Girls Inc of Alameda County: $1k → 10%Girls Inc of Alameda County: $1k → 10%Girls Inc of Alameda County: $1k → 10%Girls Inc of Alameda County: $1k → 10%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

NH
WA
MT
IL
NY
OR
NV
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$94k · 15 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
29

Total granted

$94k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+21%

Still filing today

47%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND
    3× · 2021–2023 · $22k · revenue +35%
  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +8%
  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $9k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • C
    CalSAE
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • SM
    Samuel Merritt University
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -16%
  • CN
    Cardinal Newman High School
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
4
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
5
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
10
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
11
Loma Linda University

Loma linda university, a seventh-day adventist christian health sciences institution, seeks to further the healing and teaching ministry of jesus christ "to make man whole" by: - educating ethical and proficient christian health…

Education
12
Marshall B Ketchum University

To educate caring, inspired health care professionals who are prepared to deliver collaborative, patient-centric health care in an interprofessional environment.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

17 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. 17 of the 50 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Montana State University: $19,263 · OtherMontana State UniversityCalSAE: $7,500 · OtherCalSAECobb Elementary School: $4,000 · OtherCobb Elementary SchoolCASA for Children: $3,600 · OtherCardinal Newman High School: $3,500 · OtherMs Brooke's Classroom Scholarship: $2,500 · Other+30 more: $30,914 · Other+30 moreUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $21,942 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PORTLANDLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYSamuel Merritt University: $7,000 · EducationSamuel Merritt University+1 more: $100 · EducationAMADOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · PhilanthropyAMADOR COMMUNITY F…+1 more: $50 · PhilanthropyGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $9,000 · Human ServicesLincoln Hills Foundation: $2,500 · Human ServicesMARCH OF DIMES INC: $2,100 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,600 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 · Health+1 more: $125 · HealthTAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC: $500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $50 · Animals
Other$71,277Education$49,042Philanthropy$27,050Human Services$11,500Health$5,325Youth Development$500Animals$50

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 budgetAMADOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $21,942 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSamuel Merritt University: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Hills Foundation: $2,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds AMADOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Samuel Merritt University ↗
  • Who funds Lincoln Hills Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK COUNTY SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Everett H Johnston Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Everett H Johnston Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Portland: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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, 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.
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Find your warmest path to Everett H Johnston Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 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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