· Private foundation
J Stanley & Mary W 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $442k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $371k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ORANGE AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES | $100,000 |
| CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE | $64,500 |
| SHARE OURSELVES | $55,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH | $51,000 |
| PASADENA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $40,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS USA | $40,000 |
| WORLD FOOD PROGRAM | $40,000 |
| SCRIPPS COLLEGE | $40,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $40,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $34,000 |
| THE THACHER SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| CIELO | $25,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $580k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TTThe Thacher School Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $395k · revenue +52%
LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $280k · revenue +26%
Share Our Selves Corporation6× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODORANGE AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +5%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +14%
- MOMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGOone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -89%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Irvine Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Share Our Selves Corporation ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Scripps College ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOODORANGE AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds SALLYS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Teen Project Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA GREENBELT INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA CANYON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · Laguna Beach Community Foundation · The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation · The Bassman Family Charitable Trust · The R & a Davis Family Foundation · The Hanauer Family Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · California Community Foundation · Roberta Freeman Cox Charitable Foundation · The William Gillespie 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 organization J Stanley & Mary W Johnson Family Foundation 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
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 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.