Wisconsin · Private foundation
Johnson Family 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 29
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Johnson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $1.2M | 7% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $1.1M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $1.1M | 3% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $1.0M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $936k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spoonfuls | $300,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc | $265,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Camp Starfish Inc | $252,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 4% |
| More Than Words Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Welcome Project Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Boston Area Gleaners Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Uncornered Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Next One Up Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Leadership Brainery Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 8% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($860k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Johnson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Priscilla Alden Uwo · Edelweiss Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
How this is measured
About Johnson Family Foundation
- How much does Johnson Family Foundation give?
- Johnson Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $1,221,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 29 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Johnson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (27%), Human Services (17%), Education (16%).
- Who are Johnson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Spoonfuls ($300k), Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc ($265k), Camp Starfish Inc ($253k).
- Does Johnson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Johnson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Johnson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc.
- Where is Johnson Family Foundation based?
- Johnson Family Foundation is based in WI.
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