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Johari Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Johari Family Foundation Inc

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.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$97kEmployment$63kFood & Nutrition$40kCivil Rights$30kEducation$28kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kEnvironment$17kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $134k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVERY MEAL$40,000
TREE TRUST$25,000
MINDS MATTER OF THE TWIN CITIES INC$25,000
STAR HOUSE$24,000
NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING$10,000
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION$10,000
JACK'S BASKET$2,500
PRODEO ACADEMY$1,000
HILL-MURRAY SCHOOL$1,000
ST PAUL CITY SCHOOL$1,000
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 (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE: $3k → 14%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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$183k · 3 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$183k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+6%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentEmploymentHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SH
    STAR HOUSE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $94k · 34% of their budget
  • TT
    Tree Trust
    4× · 2022–2025 · $59k · revenue +44%
  • MM
    MINDS MATTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA DISTASTER RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • GR
    GREAT RIVER GREENING
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • DW
    DAKOTA WOODLANDS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +0%
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
Breakthrough Twin Cities

Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.

Education
2
Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education
3
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
4
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
5
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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6
MN350

Mn350 unites minnesotans with the global movement to end the pollution damaging our climate, speed the transition to clean energy, and create a just and healthy future for all.

Environment
7
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
8
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

—
9
Minnesota Chapter of the National Childrens Alliance

The Minnesota Children's Alliance leads the development and growth of locally based children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to services for healing and growth.

Crime & Legal
10
Twin Cities Rise

Twin Cities R!SE transforms the lives of participants overcoming socio-economic hurdles - including unemployment, underemployment, or justice involvementthrough Personal Empowerment, career training, and meaningful employment.

Employment
11
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

—
12
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sandy Hook Promise Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Star House. 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

17 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. 17 of the 21 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
7/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STAR HOUSE: $94,000 · OtherSTAR HOUSETree Trust: $59,000 · OtherTree TrustMINDS MATTER: $30,000 · OtherMINDS MATTERNORTH CAROLINA DISTASTER RELIEF FUND: $20,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA DISTASTER RELIEF FUNDDAKOTA WOODLANDS: $10,007 · Other+5 more: $12,000 · OtherEVERY MEAL: $40,000 · Food & NutritionEVERY MEALMINDS MATTER OF THE TWIN CITIES INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTE…NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH STAR …GREAT RIVER GREENING: $15,000 · AnimalsSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalGIRLS DREAM CODE: $5,000 · EducationMONARCH JOINT VENTURE: $2,000 · EducationST PAUL CITY SCHOOL: $1,000 · EducationPRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213: $1,000 · EducationRECLAIM: $5,000 · HealthJACK'S BASKET: $2,500 · Health
Other$225,007Food & Nutrition$40,000Youth Development$35,000Animals$15,000Crime & Legal$10,000Education$9,000Health$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTAR HOUSE: $94,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetTree Trust: $59,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEVERY MEAL: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF THE TWIN CITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGREAT RIVER GREENING: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAKOTA WOODLANDS: $10,007 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECLAIM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS DREAM CODE: $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetJOBS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSisters Rising Worldwide: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJACK'S BASKET: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONARCH JOINT VENTURE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChange the Outcome: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST PAUL CITY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Fr Bigelow FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…The Blackbaud Giving …Xcel Energy FoundationHardenbergh FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…The Sauer Family Foun…The Jamf Nation Globa…Catholic Community Fo…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota

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 Johari Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Johari Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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.

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 21 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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