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Hedwig S Johannsen Trust

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.

$202k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Hedwig S Johannsen Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$202k38%
FY20247$180k0%
FY20235$180k20%
FY20223$200k0%
FY20217$300k43%
FY20204$300k75%
FY20197$140kn/a
100% 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$442kHousing & Shelter$400kFood & Nutrition$395kYouth Development$110kHealth$55kAnimals$51kRecreation & Sports$50k

Top grantees

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

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What it could do for these grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Hedwig S Johannsen Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Resource Center: $405,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetOperation Hope-North County Inc: $400,000 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetJacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank: $355,175 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad: $80,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLa Costa Youth Organization: $50,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetBrother Benno Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Elizabeth Hospice Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of the North Coast: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFrosted Faces Foundation Inc: $22,992 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of San Marcos: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRancho Coastal Humane Society: $15,175 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetStraight From the Heart Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetA Way Home for Dogs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget

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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 14.

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 San Diego FoundationCA26.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Issa Family Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation · The Country Friends · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Walter J & Betty C Zable 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 Hedwig S Johannsen Trust

How much does Hedwig S Johannsen Trust give?
Hedwig S Johannsen Trust reported 8 grants totaling $202,395 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Hedwig S Johannsen Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Housing & Shelter (27%), Food & Nutrition (26%).
Who are Hedwig S Johannsen Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Community Resource Center ($405k), Operation Hope-North County Inc ($400k), Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank ($355k).
Does Hedwig S Johannsen Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hedwig S Johannsen Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hedwig S Johannsen Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Sempra Foundation, Rancho Santa Fe Foundation.
Where is Hedwig S Johannsen Trust based?
Hedwig S Johannsen Trust is based in CA.

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 17 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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