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John D & K a Johnston Foundation at a glance

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John D & K a Johnston 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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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$91kHealth$59kEducation$25kHousing & Shelter$25kRecreation & Sports$15kYouth Development$10kEmployment$10kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$783k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST CLARE HOME INC IN NEWPORT$5,000
CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE$5,000
MEETING STREET SCHOOL$5,000
FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND$3,000
VISITING NURSE SERVICES NEWPORT COUNTY$2,500
NEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET$2,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF RI$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 (FY17–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LOOKING UPWARDS INC: $5k → 7%IN-SIGHT FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 7%IN-SIGHT FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 7%IN-SIGHT FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 7%IN-SIGHT FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 7%SAINT ANTOINES RESIDENCE: $5k → 14%SHRI SERVICE CORPS: $3k → 14%SHRI SERVICE CORPS: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $6k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $5k → 14%GATEWAYS TO CHANGE: $2k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 14%GATEWAYS TO CHANGE: $1k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND: $6k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND: $5k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND: $3k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND: $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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$187k · 16 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
17

Total granted

$187k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+30%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +27%
  • ST
    SAIL TO PREVAIL
    6× · 2018–2023 · $22k · revenue +25%
  • FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • LU
    LOOKING UPWARDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +55%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • SAVE THE BAY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -35%
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
Disability Rights Rhode Island

To assist rhode islanders with differing abilities in their efforts to achieve full inclusion in society and to exercise their civil and human rights through the provision of legal advocacy.

Civil Rights
2
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council Inc

Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…

Health
3
The Cove Center Inc

To provide day and residential programs for treatment of autism and other developmental disabilities to clients within the rhode island area.

Human Services
4
Refocus Inc

Refocus is a human service agency that serves adults with differing physical and developmental needs. we are an organization of dedicated people offering opportunities for growth in a loving, trusting, and challenging environment. we value…

Health
5
Hospital Association of Rhode Island

To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…

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6
The Rhode Island Public Health Foundation

The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…

Health
7
Rhode Island Health Care Assoc

The mission of rhode island health care association is to enhance its members' ability to provide sustainable quality health care and quality of life to the residents of rhode island's skilled nursing facilities.as a state affiliate of the…

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8
Pace Organization of Rhode Island

To respect all older adults by hearing their voice, healing their hearts, building community, and delivering exceptional and equitable healthcare.

Health
9
Nami Rhode Island

The mission of NAMI Rhode Island is to educate the public about mental illness; to offer resources and support to all whose lives are touched by mental illness; to advocate at every level to ensure the rights and dignity of those with…

Health
10
Rhode Island Housing Development Corporation

Preservation of affordable housing in the state of rhode island

Housing & Shelter
11
Parent Support Network of Rhode Island

The parent support network of ri is a group of parents, family members, transition age youth, and adults with behavioral health lived experience who are committed to supporting and assisting peers and working with statewide and national…

Human Services
12
Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence

The purpose of the ricadv is to eliminate domestic violence in rhode island our mission is to support and enhance the work of our member agencies and to provide leadership on the issue of domestic violence.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Looking Upwards Inc; the most unlike its peers is Shri Service Corps. 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

25 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. 25 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEETING STREET SCHOOL: $27,000 · OtherMEETING STREET SCHOOLSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC: $10,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INCST CLARE HOME INC IN NEWPORT: $8,500 · OtherST CLARE HOME INC IN NEWPORTHMEA TECH ACCESS RI: $8,000 · OtherHMEA TECH ACCESS RIIndividual grant recipient: $7,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INC: $5,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INCSHAKE-A-LEG INC: $5,000 · OtherSHAKE-A-LEG INCBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF RI INC: $4,000 · Other+7 more: $15,500 · Other+7 moreCHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $40,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICEFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INCSHRI SERVICE CORPS: $8,300 · Human ServicesSHRI SERVICE CORPSIN-SIGHT: $8,000 · Human ServicesIN-SIGHTLOOKING UPWARDS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLOOKING UPWARDS INCSAINT ANTOINE RESIDENCE: $5,000 · Human ServicesSAINT ANTOINE RESIDENCEGATEWAYS TO CHANGE INC: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesSAIL TO PREVAIL: $21,500 · HealthSAIL TO PREVAILNewport Hospital: $5,000 · HealthNewport HospitalMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $5,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUN…The Autism Project: $5,000 · HealthThe Autism Proje…LUCY'S HEARTH: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $4,500 · Housing & ShelterSAVE THE BAY INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentAUDUBON SOCIETY OF RHODE ISLAND: $5,000 · EnvironmentNEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET: $7,000 · Arts & CultureBoys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$90,800Human Services$88,300Health$36,500Housing & Shelter$14,500Environment$10,000Arts & Culture$7,000Youth Development$5,000Food & Nutrition$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $40,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL TO PREVAIL: $21,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLUCY'S HEARTH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHRI SERVICE CORPS: $8,300 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetIN-SIGHT: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOOKING UPWARDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNewport Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUDUBON SOCIETY OF RHODE ISLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Autism Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT ANTOINE RESIDENCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF RI INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAYS TO CHANGE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRANK OLEAN CENTER INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GRODEN CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT: $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.

The Rhode Island Comm…The Champlin Foundati…United Way of Rhode I…Vigneron Memorial FundThe Beacon FoundationAmica Companies Found…Citizens Charitable F…Cvs Health Charity Cl…Centreville Savings B…Washington Trust Co C…The Nordson Corporati…Ppl Foundation
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI38.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Vigneron Memorial Fund · The Beacon Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Cvs Health Charity Classic Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Ppl Foundation

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 John D & K a Johnston Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John D & K a Johnston Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 34 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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