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Hedwig S Johannsen Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Operation HOPE Vista$100,000
Community Resource Center$50,000
Frosted Faces Foundation$10,395
Brother Benno Foundation$10,000
Boys and Girls Club of Vista$10,000
Straight from the Heart$10,000
The Elizabeth Hospice$10,000
Veterans Association of North County$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $470k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%Hospice of the North Coast: $20k → 11%Hospice of the North Coast: $5k → 11%Community Resource Center: $100k → 11%Community Resource Center: $75k → 11%Community Resource Center: $50k → 11%Community Resource Center: $50k → 11%Community Resource Center: $50k → 11%Community Resource Center: $50k → 11%Community Resource Center: $30k → 11%Straight from the Heart: $10k → 11%The Elizabeth Hospice: $20k → 11%The Elizabeth Hospice: $10k → 11%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 9 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

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

+62%
+132%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $405k · revenue +200%
  • OH
    OPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +22%
  • JC
    JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $355k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • LC
    LA COSTA YOUTH ORGANIZATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +83% · 27% of their budget
  • IC
    Interfaith Community Services Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +43%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +135%
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
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
2
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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3
North Beach Citizens

North Beach Citizens meets the needs of our unhoused and extremely low-income neighbors with trust, integrity, and compassion. Through personalized, innovative programs, we help individuals facing poverty reclaim dignity, stability, and a…

Human Services
4
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
5
5CITIES Homeless Coalition Inc

5cities homeless coalition (5chc) is transforming lives in san luis obispo county, california, from avila beach to nipomo. 5chc strengthens the community by mobilizing resources, fostering hope, and advocating for the homeless and those…

Human Services
6
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
7
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
8
South Coast Hospice & Palliative Ca

To provide care for the terminally ill that helps these individuals live their lives as fully as possible.

Human Services
9
Nbcc

To provide counseling, education, shelter and supportive services to low-income, homeless and mentally ill individuals and families.

Human Services
10
Hospital Council of N & C California

To provide membership services, local level issue management, education, shared services, research, media support & consultation to northern california hospitals.

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11
Spot

SPOT Saving Pets One at a Time is a leading San Diego County all-volunteer rescue organization whose main focus is to save dogs and cats in shelters who are at risk of euthanization and to help other dogs and cats in need as well. In…

Animals
12
Sunnyvale Community Services

The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center; the most unlike its peers is Veterans Association of North County. 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

16 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. 16 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $405,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTERTHE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INCHOSPICE OF THE NORTH COAST: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY INC: $400,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY IN…JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $355,175 · Food & NutritionJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FO…BROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionBROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentInterfaith Community Services Inc: $25,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS: $20,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC: $10,000 · OtherWAGGING DOG RESCUE: $7,500 · OtherLA COSTA YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsFROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC: $22,992 · AnimalsRANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $15,175 · AnimalsA WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC: $5,000 · AnimalsVETERANS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH COUNTY: $2,000 · Public Benefit
Human Services$470,000Housing & Shelter$400,000Food & Nutrition$395,175Youth Development$80,000Other$62,500Recreation & Sports$50,000Animals$43,167Public Benefit$2,000

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 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
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.

The San Diego Foundat…Sempra FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…David C Copley Founda…Leichtag FoundationThe Nordson Corporati…Jewish Community Foun…Issa Family FoundationCoastal Community Fou…The Country FriendsFrench Fund Samuel Ka…Walter J & Betty C Za…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hedwig S Johannsen Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hedwig S Johannsen Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 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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