· Private foundation
Johnson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIDS AROUND THE WORLD | $1,650 |
| SWEDISH AMERICAN HOSPITAL | $500 |
| ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| BACK2BACK MINISTRIES | $500 |
| AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL | $500 |
| DAVID COOK FOUNDATION | $500 |
| JUDSON UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| IREF | $500 |
| OPERATION MOBILIZATION | $250 |
| ROCK RIVER CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION | $250 |
| GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL | $250 |
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 (FY20–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- KAKIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC8× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +86%
- RUROCKFORD UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +5%
- JUJUDSON UNIVERSITY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION5× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INCone grant, 2022 · $3k
- NCNORTH CENTRAL NEWFOUNDLAND CLUBone grant, 2022 · $3k
- B2BACK 2 BACKone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
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.
To challenge young people to know christ as lord, apply god's truth in all areas of life, love others sacrifically, and achieve the highest level of knowledge and skill in order to serve god and others
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Bluesky global ministries' vision is to see the multinational community of nairobi, kenya, spiritually transformed and equipped to influence the world for god's glory. we pursue this by building relationships through adventure, using three…
Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Christian leaders from africa promotes christian theological training & education of local leaders in kenya and throughout africa. it invests in undergraduate, masters, and phd scholarships, faculty support for african professors and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Outreach International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lemonaid Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 35 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 BIBLES FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds KIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DAVID C COOK ↗
- Who funds JUDSON UNIVERSITY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SwedishAmerican Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds SwedishAmerican Hospital ↗
- Who funds ROCK HOUSE KIDS ↗
- Who funds Back 2 Back Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEMONAID FUND ↗
- Who funds ONE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT ↗
- Who funds Children's Ministry International Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD RAPTORS SOCCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION 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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Rydell Family Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Family Foundation 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.
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