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Johnson Charitable Gift Fund
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 742 grants below total $46,315,603 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $48,738,817 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,423,214 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k159 grants · $1.1M
- $10k–50k459 grants · $8.3M
- $50k–250k94 grants · $8.5M
- $250k+30 grants · $28M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMONWEALTH CAUSES | $3,900,000 |
| SETON HIGH SCHOOL | $3,293,045 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $1,668,654 |
| WONDERHUNT | $1,650,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDI | $1,607,203 |
| CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| ST URSULA VILLA | $1,469,500 |
| SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER | $1,283,634 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,095,400 |
| NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK | $1,050,000 |
| POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL | $1,000,000 |
| ACCESS AUDIO INC | $964,000 |
| FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY | $937,184 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $747,598 |
| VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP | $650,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $15.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
790 repeat relationships — 485 still active in FY2025, 305 since wound down; 183 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +30%
SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $9.2M · revenue +97% · 26% of their budget- EHELDER HIGH SCHOOL FUND TRUST8× · 2017–2025 · $7.3M · revenue +36%
Funded once
- ASAUBURN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +71%
- SEST ELIZABETH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $405k
- LFLANTERN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +14%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
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…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mpj Elite. 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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
970 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. 970 of the 1,391 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
- Who funds ELDER HIGH SCHOOL FUND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE HILL COMMUNITY URBAN REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Back 2 Back Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH CAUSES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE COMING HOME NETWORK INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Bethany House Services Inc ↗
- Who funds St Rita School For The Deaf ↗
- Who funds NW FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds ACCESS AUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds ReadAloudorg ↗
- Who funds Amigos For Christ Inc ↗
- Who funds WONDERHUNT ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK 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: John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Millstone Fund · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd
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 Johnson Charitable Gift Fund 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
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.
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