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· Private foundation
Hedwig S Johannsen Trust
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$202k
Granted FY2025
8
Grants
1
Communities
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Human Services$470kHousing & Shelter$400kRecreation & Sports$50kAnimals$43kFood & Nutrition$40kPublic Benefit$2kOther$498k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
hospiceboys girls
2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
vista
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Operation HOPE Vista$100,000
- Community Resource Center$50,000
- Frosted Faces Foundation$10,395
- The Elizabeth Hospice$10,000
- Brother Benno Foundation$10,000
- Straight from the Heart$10,000
- Boys and Girls Club of Vista$10,000
- Veterans Association of North County$2,000
02The need
04
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $470k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 9 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +120% since the first grant, against +97% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
5
Total granted
$1.4M
$108k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+120%
+97%
Still filing today
78%
80%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
Community Resource Center7× · 2019–2025 · $405k · revenue +142%- OHOperation HOPE Vista6× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +26%
- BBBrother Benno Foundation3× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- LCLa Costa Youth Organizationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +51% · 27% of their budget
- ICInterfaith Community Servicesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +60%
- BABoys and Girls Club of San Marcosgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +148%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Santa Cruz Co Animal Shelter Foundation
To support santa cruz county animal services authority through education, public awareness, fund raising, support of current projects, and establishment of new projects.
Animals
2
San Diego Humane Society & Spca
Sheltering, adoptions, humane practices, protection, and rehabilitation for animals.
Animals
3
Mendocino Coast Humane Society
Caring for homeless animals, and finding homes for them through pet adoptions.
Animals
4
Hospice of San Luis Obispo County
Hospice of slo provides volunteer support, education, and counseling to those living with life threatening or terminal illness, their families, and the bereaved. our primary clientele are low to moderate income children, adults, families,…
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5
North Bay Animal Services
Animals
6
Peace of Mind Dog Rescue
Peace of Mind Dog Rescue is a resource and advocate for senior dogs and senior people on the Central Coast. We find homes for dogs whose guardians can no longer care for them and for senior dogs in shelters.
Animals
7
Central California Spca Fresno County
The Central California S.P.C.A.'s (CCSPCA) mission is to provide protection, placement and education to ensure responsible animal care.
Animals
8
Humane Society of Taos Inc
Stray Hearts is a no-kill animal shelter and adoption facility providing humane care and shelter for more than 1,500 surrendered, abandoned and abused companion animals per year.
Animals
9
Community Hospital of the Monterey
Improving lives by delivering exceptional care and inspiring the pursuit of optimal health.
Health
10
Desert Dog Rescue Inc
Animal rescue
Animals
11
San Gabriel Valley Humane Society
The society was formed to maintain a temporary home for animals until adoption to a new forever home and to teach & encourage the principles of kindness and humaneness in the care of animals. the shelter also provides low cost dog and cat…
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12
Sante Dor Foundation
Sante DOr is a no-kill animal adoption center serving the Los Angeles community, predominantly staffed by volunteers.
Animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rancho Coastal Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos. 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
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$497,675Human Services$470,000Housing & Shelter$400,000Recreation & Sports$50,000Animals$43,167Food & Nutrition$40,000Public Benefit$2,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Community Resource Center ↗
- Who funds Operation HOPE Vista ↗
- Who funds La Costa Youth Organization ↗
- Who funds Brother Benno Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Elizabeth Hospice ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the North Coast ↗
- Who funds Frosted Faces Foundation ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of San Marcos ↗
- Who funds Rancho Coastal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Straight from the Heart ↗
- Who funds A Way Home for Dogs ↗
- Who funds Veterans Association of North County ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
The San Diego FoundationCA21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Coastal Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Country Friends · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation Hedwig S Johannsen Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: La Costa Youth Organization.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +51% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 330214056 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on La Costa Youth Organization, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 27% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Hedwig S Johannsen Trust?
Find your warmest path to Hedwig S Johannsen Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines