How much does Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson Family Foundation give?

Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson Family Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $507,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

Who are Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Episcopal Relief and Development ($111k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($79k), Global Fund for Women Inc ($37k).

Does Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Central Indiana Inc, Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation.

Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson Family Foundation

Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson Family Foundation at a glance

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Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson Family Foundation

Q: What does Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (13%), Health (12%), International (11%).

Q: Where is Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson Family Foundation based?

Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson Family Foundation is based in IN.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$508k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$42k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$235kHealth$222kInternational$198kCivil Rights$155kYouth Development$142kCrime & Legal$130kEducation$120kReligion$115kOther$0

02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $83k
$10k–50k36 grants · $425k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$717k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Episcopal Relief and Development	$42,000
Doctors Without Borders USA	$32,000
HOME Inc	$13,000
Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc	$12,000
Equal Justice Initiative	$11,000
National Immigration Law Center	$11,000
Abolitionist Law Center	$11,000
Heart to Heart International	$11,000
Southern Poverty Law Center	$11,000
Arc of Benton Co	$10,500
Memorial Ambulance Corps	$10,000
Little Rd Door Cancer Agency	$10,000
Island Health and Wellness Foundation	$10,000
Mental Health Providers of Western Queens	$10,000
Native American Heritage Association	$10,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 73 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

73 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+58%

Still filing today

78%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsEducationOther

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

ER
EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT
9× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +17%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +98%
GF
GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +74%

Funded once

HO
HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INCgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +53%
TR
The Regional Advisory Council of Benton County
one grant, 2022 · $5k
SR
Spruce Run Association
one grant, 2017 · $2k

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.

Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services

Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

Coop Careers Inc

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

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

65 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. 65 of the 89 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

63/65

Grantees still filing

45/65

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$903,500Human Services$281,400Health$201,000International$200,300Crime & Legal$102,800Recreation & Sports$90,100Education$81,200

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

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.

Central Indiana Community Foundation IncIN29.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Second Helpings Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Pacers Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Salesforce Foundation · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc

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 Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irving S Johnson and Alwyn N Johnson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home