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G E Johnson Foundation at a glance

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G E Johnson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$280k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.7MEducation$674kAnimals$525kPhilanthropy$337kHuman Services$256kYouth Development$242kPublic Benefit$226kRecreation & Sports$220kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $134k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $825k
  • $250k+1 grant · $280k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$312k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vail Health Foundation$280,000
Western Stock Show Association$166,666
Junior Achievement - Rocky Mtn Inc$166,666
Craig Hospital$150,000
Rocky Mtn Adventist Healthcare Foundation$120,000
Common Sense Institute$112,000
Children's Hospital$60,000
Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region$50,000
Individual grant recipient$31,000
Foundation for Colorado Springs Future$28,000
Gazette Charities Foundation$25,000
Air Force Academy Foundation$10,000
Penrose St Francis Health Foundation$10,000
UC Health Memorial Foundation$10,000
Careers in Construction Colorado$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 (FY19–23, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FII-National: $25k → 10%My Future Pathways: $3k → 8%Springs Rescue Mission: $100k → 9%RAISE THE FUTURE: $50k → 12%The Place: $1k → 9%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of G E Johnson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 93%.

G E Johnson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 25 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
29

Total granted

$3.8M
$903k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+34%

Still filing today

72%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $694k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $345k · revenue +84%
  • CC
    Colorado Christian University
    3× · 2020–2022 · $250k · revenue +36%
  • CS
    COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $225k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • PP
    PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $170k · revenue +36%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +42%
  • TS
    THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +10%
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
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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2
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
3
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

To build a lasting connection to the pikes peak region by preserving and sharing our cultural history. this mission is accomplished through our support of the colorado springs pioneers museum, owned and operated by the city of colorado…

Arts & Culture
4
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
5
Colorado Health Institute
Health
6
Philanthropy Colorado

Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.

Philanthropy
7
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
8
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
9
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
10
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
11
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
12
Colorado Press Association

Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pikes Peak Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Manitou Springs Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 70 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
32/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $860,000 · HealthCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATIONVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $610,000 · HealthVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATIONFACE IT TOGETHER INC: $358,260 · HealthFACE IT TOGETHER INCRocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation: $180,000 · HealthRocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare FoundationCraig Hospital: $150,000 · HealthCraig HospitalChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $125,000 · Health+2 more: $72,100 · HealthCheyenne Mountain Zoo: $180,000 · OtherCheyenne Mountain ZooJunior Achievement - Rocky Mtn Inc: $166,666 · OtherJunior Achievement - Rocky Mtn I…Rocky Mtn Adventist Healthcare Foundation: $120,000 · OtherRocky Mtn Adventist Healthcare F…Children's Hospital: $80,000 · OtherUC Health Memorial Foundation: $75,000 · OtherVETERANS PATH INC: $75,000 · OtherGAZETTE CHARITIES FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $100,000 · OtherTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSIONJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $84,333 · OtherCareers in Construction Colorado: $80,000 · OtherJEFFCO DEANGELIS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Other+34 more: $519,000 · Other+34 moreColorado Christian University: $250,000 · EducationColorado Chr…PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $170,000 · EducationPIKES PEAK S…COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EducationCOLORADO COM…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationCOLORADO STA…Pueblo Community College Foundation: $40,000 · EducationPueblo Commu…Peak Education: $27,000 · Education+2 more: $7,667 · EducationHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $345,000 · AnimalsPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $236,500 · PhilanthropyYOUTHPOWER365: $30,000 · PhilanthropyAIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMON SENSE INSTITUTE: $224,500 · Social ScienceTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $166,666 · Recreation & SportsMANITOU SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsBreckenridge Outdoor Education Center: $17,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Health$2,355,360Other$1,629,999Education$614,667Animals$345,000Philanthropy$276,500Social Science$224,500Recreation & Sports$211,666

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 budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $860,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $610,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFACE IT TOGETHER INC: $358,260 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $345,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetColorado Christian University: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $236,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMON SENSE INSTITUTE: $224,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetRocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation: $180,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $170,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $166,666 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCraig Hospital: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $84,333 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCareers in Construction Colorado: $80,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetVETERANS PATH INC: $75,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetRAISE THE FUTURE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPueblo Community College Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMindfulness and Positivity Project: $36,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP (CHP): $35,600 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museum: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHPOWER365: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE: $28,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPeak Education: $27,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANITOU SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetFire Foundation of Colorado Springs: $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreckenridge Outdoor Education Center: $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS: $17,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHomeward Pikes Peak: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBetty Ford Alpine Gardens: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMART BELLIES: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMY FUTURE PATHWAYS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetColorado Springs Leadership Institute: $2,667 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTEAM BRECKENRIDGE SPORTS CLUB INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Place: $1,000 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.

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.

El Pomar FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Joseph Henry Edmo…The Denver FoundationEnt Credit UnionThe Anschutz Foundati…Catholic Health Initi…The Colorado Health F…Colorado Springs Heal…Pikes Peak Community …Dusty and Katherine L…The Myron Stratton Ho…
El Pomar FoundationCO45.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Ent Credit Union · The Anschutz Foundation · Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home

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 G E Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from G E Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to G E Johnson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to G E Johnson 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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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