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Jenny Johnson Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$1.8MScience & Tech$1.3MSocial Science$1.0MArts & Culture$973kEducation$769kPhilanthropy$520kPublic Benefit$425kHuman Services$255kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $675k
  • $250k+2 grants · $525k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$828k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CETER$275,000
JOURNEY TO LEAD$250,000
MILKEN INSTITUTE$200,000
ETHERIDGE FOUNDATION$125,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$100,000
ALLIANCE OF WOMEN DIRECTORS$100,000
CAF AMERICA$50,007
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN FOUNDATION$50,000
CREATIVE COALITION$50,000
SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$25,000
ADDICTION EDUCATION SOCIETY$25,000
CONFERENCE BOARD$25,000
NEW ORLEANS CULIINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE$25,000
NEW ENGLAND ANIMAL SANCTUARY$25,000
INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $100k → 11%WOMEN'S LEAGUE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $25k → 11%FIXINS CHARITIES: $75k → 12%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $25k → 11%ST HOPE ACADEMY: $25k → 12%ST HOPE ACADEMY: $25k → 12%HAWAII COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $25k → 15%ST HOPE ACADEMY: $25k → 12%DREAMS 33 FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

ME
VT
WA
MT
MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.1M · 40 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
74

Total granted

$6.1M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+2%

Still filing today

68%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k 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
EducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • JT
    JOURNEY TO LEAD INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +141% · 32% of their budget
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +7%
  • NY
    New York University
    2× · 2020–2023 · $155k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • KA
    KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -12%
  • TM
    THE MILKEN INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $225k · revenue +42%
  • J
    JDRF
    one grant, 2019 · $100k

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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4
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
7
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
11
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
12
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catalyst Inc and the most unlike its peers is DREAMS33 Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Ymca Youth DevelopmentPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports ProgramsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Health Access Advocacy and …Public Library OperationsSchool District FoundationsCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%26%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 26% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/81
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,484

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.

04the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 124 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/79
Grantees still filing
47/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CETER — $775,672 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CETERTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $600,048 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTETHE CREATIVE COALITION — $340,000 · OtherTHE CREATIVE COALITIONTHE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION — $260,000 · OtherTHE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTIONFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $225,000 · Other+74 more — $2,380,792 · Other+74 moreJOURNEY TO LEAD INC — $1,270,000 · Science & TechJOURNEY TO LEAD …KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN — $250,000 · PhilanthropyKEMPER AN…PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $225,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE …GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND — $105,000 · PhilanthropyGIANTS CO…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $50,007 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES…LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $26,000 · PhilanthropyNew York University — $155,000 · EducationTHE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationCRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL — $140,000 · EducationPORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $69,500 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Education+5 more — $70,000 · EducationTHE ETHERIDGE FOUNDATION — $125,000 · HealthADDICTION EDUCATION SOCIETY INC — $100,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $100,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $80,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL — $25,000 · HealthCHAMPIONS OF THE COMMUNITY INC — $25,000 · Health+4 more — $36,000 · HealthPEDAL THE CAUSE — $125,000 · Human ServicesST HOPE ACADEMY — $75,000 · Human ServicesFixins Charities — $75,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S LEAGUE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesDREAMS33 FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL — $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $125,000 · Arts & CultureFriends Of Bafta Us Inc — $67,500 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER — $55,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $25,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $13,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,831,512Science & Tech$1,270,000Philanthropy$681,007Education$614,500Health$491,000Human Services$350,000Arts & Culture$311,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOURNEY TO LEAD INC — $1,270,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetTHE CREATIVE COALITION — $340,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $225,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNew York University — $155,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL — $140,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE — $125,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND — $105,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE — $105,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGUATEMALA SANA CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetADDICTION EDUCATION SOCIETY INC — $100,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetTHE JMT WILDERNESS CONSERVANCY — $100,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST HOPE ACADEMY — $75,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFixins Charities — $75,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $69,500 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetFriends Of Bafta Us Inc — $67,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE ECONOMIC CLUB OF NEW YORK — $60,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $55,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $50,007 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MONTANA FAMILY YMCA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATALYST INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBABY2BABY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWENDER WEIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSan Mateo Police Activities League Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE BIG ISLAND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S LEAGUE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDREAMS33 FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHAWAII COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHAMPIONS OF THE COMMUNITY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGirls With Impact Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget
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.

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.

Tracy and Greg Johnso…Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…Franklin Templeton Ch…Central Pacific Bank …The San Francisco Fou…United Way WorldwideMorgan Stanley Global…Synchrony Foundation
Tracy and Greg Johnson Foundation IncNY20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tracy and Greg Johnson Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Franklin Templeton Charitable Foundation Inc · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Synchrony 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 Jenny Johnson Family Foundation Inc 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
23report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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