· Private foundation
J Howard and Brenda L Johnson Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Loyola High School | $25,000 |
| American Friends of Jamaica | $18,000 |
| Barbara Bush School | $14,000 |
| Saint Jude Childrens Research Hospital | $10,000 |
| Barbara Bush Foundation | $5,010 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| St James Church | $1,000 |
| Silver Shield Foundation | $1,000 |
| Friends of the Parks | $250 |
| Central Park Beauty | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +140%
- GHGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $14k · revenue +4%
- TSTHE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- SSCHEDULEone grant, 2021 · $168k
- VVARIOUSone grant, 2020 · $67k
- MAMD ANDERSON HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $13k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds American Friends of Jamaica Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS ↗
- Who funds THE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization J Howard and Brenda L Johnson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Howard and Brenda L Johnson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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