· Private foundation
Johnson Ernest Q for Charity
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANK SARRIS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $18,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF W PA | $10,000 |
| CM QUARTERBACK CLUB | $5,000 |
| CANONSBURG JULY FOURTH CELEBRATION INC | $5,000 |
| FILM PITTSBURGH | $5,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS WESTERN PA | $5,000 |
| ST MICHAELS BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $4,000 |
| PITTSBURGH THREE RIVERS MARATHON INC | $3,500 |
| CHILD EVANGELISM OUTREACH | $3,000 |
| CENTRAL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| CANONSBURG HOSPITAL | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- FSFRANK SARRIS PUBLIC LIBRARY5× · 2020–2025 · $84k · revenue +15%
- CQCM Quarterback Club5× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +108%
- CJCANONSBURG JULY FOURTH CELEBRATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- SMST MICHAEL'S BYZANTINE CATHOLICone grant, 2023 · $6k
- SMST MICHAELS BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- CVCANONSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +72%
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.
Provide amenities and improvements to our community park
Provide a safe and family-friendly way to celebrate our country's Independence Day.
The cannon river outdoors club was established to provide outdoor sports and recreation opportunities, training and fellowship to the greater northfield area. we offer a club environment for youth, families, and individuals prioritizing…
To organize recreational activities for the youth and adult citizens of the catonsville area of baltimore county, maryland
Commerce cannons is dedicated to giving back to the community by contributing to the growth and dvelopment of the players, not only to be better ballplayers, but also guide them to be good citizens in the community.
To encourage the development of a healthy business environment by advancing the interests of our members and advocating interaction between commercial, financial, and civic groups to promote growth and economic stability.
To be a resource for books and other reading material for community use to promote literacy and love of reading within the community and to sponsor activities that build fellowship in the community.
Soccer association for youth
Provide fire protection for over 100 members
Operations for a free public library for the residents of canton, pennsylvania and surrounding areas.
To restore and improve Canonsburg Lake as a recreational resource for outdoor enthusiasts, including fishermen, water-sport fans, hikers, birdwatchers, and cross country skiers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canonsburgs Old Fashioned Christmas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Association of the United States Army. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 29 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 FRANK SARRIS PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CM Quarterback Club ↗
- Who funds CANONSBURG JULY FOURTH CELEBRATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds FILM PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY ↗
- Who funds CANONSBURGS OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS INC ↗
- Who funds CANONSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Canon-McMillan Middle School Band Boosters ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH THREE RIVERS MARATHON INC ↗
- Who funds CR JRS CHIP ↗
- Who funds Computer Reach ↗
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Washington County Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Johnson Ernest Q for Charity 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.
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.