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Gunnard & Charlotte Johnson Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Gunnard & Charlotte Johnson Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$22k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2020.

Health$140kEducation$136kArts & Culture$27kEnvironment$10kHuman Services$8kFood & Nutrition$6kYouth Development$3kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k8 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kansas Policy Institute$10,000
Migrant Farmers Assistance Fund$5,000
Village Presbyterian Church$1,755
UMKC Foundation$1,250
Kansas City Actors Theatre$1,000
Ensemble Iberica$1,000
Kansas City Comm Gardens$1,000
The Grooming Project$500
Rightfully Sewn$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Nerman Museum: $5k → 5%Kansas Policy Institute: $40k → 16%University of Kansas Health: $100k → 16%Powel Gardens: $10k → 14%St Pauls School: $35k → 15%Crow Canyon: $30k → 15%Village Presbyterian Church: $2k → 5%Kansas Policy Institute: $10k → 16%The Grooming Project: $500 → 15%Saint Lukes Hospital Foundation: $35k → 15%Barstow School: $50k → 15%Boys Grow: $3k → 15%Kansas City Comm Gardens: $5k → 15%Foster House Foundation: $3k → 15%Kansas City Comm Gardens: $1k → 15%UMKC Foundation: $1k → 15%Welcome House: $5k → 15%Rightfully Sewn: $500 → 15%Ensemble Iberica: $10k → 15%Ensemble Iberica: $1k → 15%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$78k · 4 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$78k
$275k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+66%

Still filing today

75%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEmploymentOther
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

  • KP
    KANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +55%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $11k · revenue +19%
  • EI
    ENSEMBLE IBERICA INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $11k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Kansas Health
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • TB
    THE BARSTOW SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +37%
  • SL
    Saint Lukes Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
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
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
2
Kansas Manufacturing Solutions Inc

To grow Kansas manufacturing by delivering solutions to small and medium sized manufacturers with value driven results.

Community Improvement
3
Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City

The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.

Arts & Culture
4
Kansas City Ballet Association

To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance

Arts & Culture
5
Kansas City Art Institute

The mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.

Education
6
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
7
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
8
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
9
Economic Club of Kansas City

To sponsor events that enhance members' knowledge of current economic and financial and social issues.

Community Improvement
10
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
11
Kansas Bioscience Organization Inc

Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…

Education
12
Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc

Front Porch Alliance works together with residents of Kansas City, Missouris eastside and urban core to meet their changing needs at home and in school.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Umkc Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ensemble Iberica Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Kansas Health: $100,000 · OtherUniversity of Kansas HealthTHE BARSTOW SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherTHE BARSTOW SCHOOLSaint Lukes Hospital Foundation: $35,000 · OtherSaint Lukes Hospital FoundationSt Pauls School: $35,000 · OtherSt Pauls SchoolIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientENSEMBLE IBERICA INC: $11,000 · OtherPOWELL GARDENS INC: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $15,755 · Other+5 moreKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE: $50,000 · EducationKANSAS POLICY IN…+1 more: $1,250 · EducationKANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureWelcome House Inc: $5,000 · HealthMigrant Farmworkers Assistance Fund: $5,000 · Human ServicesBOYS GROW CORP: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentRIGHTFULLY SEWN INC: $500 · Employment
Other$286,755Education$51,250Arts & Culture$11,000Health$5,000Human Services$5,000Youth Development$2,500Employment$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE BARSTOW SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC: $11,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetENSEMBLE IBERICA INC: $11,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetPOWELL GARDENS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWelcome House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMigrant Farmworkers Assistance Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS GROW CORP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $1,250 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.

Greater Kansas City C…The H & R Block Found…The Sunderland Founda…Miller-Mellor Associa…The Torosian Foundati…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Miller-Mellor Association · The Torosian Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Gunnard & Charlotte Johnson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gunnard & Charlotte Johnson Foundation Inc. 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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.

    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 19 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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