How much does Gesner Johnson Foundation give?

Gesner Johnson Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $710,094 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Gesner Johnson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Housing & Shelter (14%), Youth Development (10%).

Who are Gesner Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Both Ends Believing Inc ($185k), Leadership Development DBA Centered ($150k), Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ($150k).

Does Gesner Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 81% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gesner Johnson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Gesner Johnson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rose Hills Foundation, The San Diego Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.

Where is Gesner Johnson Foundation based?

Gesner Johnson Foundation is based in NJ.

Foundation Dossiers

New Jersey · Private foundation

Gesner Johnson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$710k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 19
Grants FY2025: 16
Organizations funded FY2024: 81%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $40,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $56,275
Organizations funded a year: 16 to 24; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $12M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 81% of the organizations Gesner Johnson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $595k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterInternationalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	19	$710k	53%
FY2024	16	$710k	81%
FY2023	18	$671k	61%
FY2022	24	$945k	58%
FY2021	18	$714k	67%
FY2020	24	$644k	79%
FY2019	24	$774k	n/a

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$1.1MHousing & Shelter$723kYouth Development$531kInternational$489kHealth$426kCommunity Improvement$298kReligion$250kFood & Nutrition$205kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Both Ends Believing Inc	$185,000	4	2%
Leadership Development DBA Centered	$150,000	3	6%
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd	$150,000	2	0%
Urban Impact	$139,500	5	1%
Just in Time for Foster Youth	$138,000	4	1%
Community Resource Center	$129,204	3	1%
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals	$125,400	2	0%
Solutions for Change Inc	$122,800	3	1%
Olive Crest	$118,884	3	0%
Agros International	$115,403	4	1%

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All grantees of Gesner Johnson Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Both Ends Believing Inc	$185,000	4	2%
Leadership Development DBA Centered	$150,000	3	6%
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd	$150,000	2	0%
Urban Impact	$139,500	5	1%
Just in Time for Foster Youth	$138,000	4	1%
Community Resource Center	$129,204	3	1%
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals	$125,400	2	0%
Solutions for Change Inc	$122,800	3	1%
Olive Crest	$118,884	3	0%
Agros International	$115,403	4	1%
San Diego Rescue Mission Inc	$94,700	2	0%
Union Station Homeless Services	$85,000	2	0%
Our Arts Foundation	$81,689	2	n/a
United Way of Pierce County	$80,000	2	1%
Voices for Children	$70,000	2	1%
Ballard Food Bank	$70,000	1	1%
Going Home II	$68,000	1	3%
Businesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking	$66,000	1	7%
A Place Called Home	$65,000	1	1%
A New Leaf Inc	$61,800	1	1%
Journey House Inc	$60,000	2	3%
Neighbors Empowering Youth N E Y	$60,000	2	58%
Inner-City Arts	$59,067	1	1%
Outdoor Outreach	$56,275	1	1%
All Peoples Community Center	$56,000	2	1%
Epidaurus Dba Amity Foundation	$51,700	1	0%
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology	$50,000	1	1%
CRISTA Ministries	$50,000	1	0%
Medical Teams International	$50,000	1	0%
FAMILY HOPE dba ELIZABETH HOUSE	$50,000	1	3%
Community Partners	$50,000	1	0%
Hope Refuge Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Feeding San Diego	$50,000	1	0%
Organization for Prostitution Survivors	$50,000	1	5%
Lucky Duck Foundation	$50,000	1	1%
Pasadena Senior Center	$50,000	1	2%
Challenged Athletes Inc	$50,000	1	0%
The Alabaster Jar Project	$50,000	1	8%
Bridges of Hope	$50,000	1	2%
A New Leaf Cottages Inc	$50,000	1	24%
Five Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County	$50,000	1	0%
Center for Community Solutions	$50,000	1	1%
Mama's Kitchen	$47,375	1	1%
My Neighbor to Love Coalition	$42,000	1	6%
The Big Table	$40,000	1	1%
Antioch Adoptions	$40,000	2	4%
Testimony Gospel Brand Ministries	$40,000	1	n/a
Girls Rising Above Child Exploitation Inc	$39,000	1	19%
Alliance for Hope International	$35,000	1	1%
Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena	$35,000	2	1%
Seattle Area Youth for Christ	$35,000	1	5%
Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative	$35,000	1	5%
School on Wheels Inc	$35,000	2	1%
Flintridge Center	$35,000	2	n/a
Cura Smiles Inc	$33,530	1	n/a
Construction for Change	$31,688	1	2%
Seed House Project	$30,000	1	2%
Alia	$27,100	1	1%
Forever Kids	$25,000	1	11%
Mary's Place Seattle	$25,000	1	0%
Studio Ace	$22,000	1	8%
RISE Urban Leadership Institute of San Diego	$21,300	1	n/a
Mana de North County San Diego	$20,000	1	n/a
Urban Hands	$20,000	1	n/a
Generatehope Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Brother Benno Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Young & Healthy	$16,200	2	1%
Sonoran Prevention Works	$15,000	1	1%
Impact Latin America	$13,350	1	2%
The Prodigy Project	$12,000	1	18%
Survive the Streets	$10,000	1	n/a
Get Lit - Words Ignite Inc	$10,000	1	1%
St Francis Center	$10,000	1	0%
Casa Treatment Center	$10,000	1	0%
Steward Ag Foundation	$10,000	1	12%
Montessori Community School	$10,000	1	0%
Feeding The Soul Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
All Peoples Christian Church	$10,000	1	n/a
Covenant House California	$10,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Gesner Johnson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 69.

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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.

The Rose Hills FoundationCA27× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rose Hills Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Ahmanson Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Country Friends · Alliance Healthcare 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.

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About Gesner Johnson Foundation

How much does Gesner Johnson Foundation give?: Gesner Johnson Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $710,094 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Gesner Johnson Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Housing & Shelter (14%), Youth Development (10%).
Who are Gesner Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Both Ends Believing Inc ($185k), Leadership Development DBA Centered ($150k), Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ($150k).
Does Gesner Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 81% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gesner Johnson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gesner Johnson Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rose Hills Foundation, The San Diego Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
Where is Gesner Johnson Foundation based?: Gesner Johnson Foundation is based in NJ.