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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.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$10MHealth$874kAnimals$818kInternational$713kReligion$668kPhilanthropy$430kEnvironment$358kHuman Services$195kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $354k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $221k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.9M
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC$1,467,500
THE EXUMA FOUNDATION$400,000
THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC$350,000
THE JOHNSON FOUNDATION INC$350,000
JOURNEY TO LIVING FREE$300,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF RACINE & KENOSHA COUNTIES$100,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$70,677
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$50,000
Individual grant recipient$49,000
LEAHS HOPES AND DREAMS ORGANIZATION$35,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$30,000
VOLUNTEER CENTER OF RACINE INC$25,000
RACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$25,000
CABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC$25,000
KATIE FLOWERS ENDOWMENT INC$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Wounded Warrior Project: $7k → 14%VOLUNTEER CENTER OF RACINE INC: $25k → 10%MEMPHIS ROX: $3k → 17%LEAHS HOPES AND DREAMS ORGANIZATION: $35k → 9%LEAH'S HOPES & DREAMS: $20k → 10%St Marys Home for Children: $3k → 14%Saint Francis Service Dogs: $2k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $4k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $18k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%VETERANS OUTREACH OF WISCONSIN: $30k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%VETERANS OUTREACH OF WISCONSIN: $4k → 10%Halo Inc: $40k → 10%SAFE HAVEN OF RACINE INC: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 59 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
54

Total granted

$13M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+7%

Still filing today

76%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TP
    THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.2M · revenue +60%
  • TE
    THE EXUMA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $685k · revenue +19% · 98% of their budget
  • JT
    JOURNEY TO LIVING FREE INC CO CURT JOHNSON
    7× · 2018–2025 · $590k · revenue +249% · 78% of their budget

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTHLAND COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $290k · revenue -22%
  • AB
    American Birkbeiner Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $125k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
6
Cancer Research and Biostatistics

To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
9
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Riverview Healthcare Association

We deliver a healthcare experience that consistently exceeds patients' expectations through exceptional people - our people are our foundation. we employ trusted, dedicated professionals who serve with compassion, empathy and respect.…

Health
12
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is One Family Memphis. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Military Veterans SupportEquine Therapy ProgramsPregnancy Support ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Cancer Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%1%<5yr12%5%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr19%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr16%3%35–55yr19%78%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/84
the rest of the field
8%
3,022/36,442

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.

04the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 132 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/82
Grantees still filing
56/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC — $9,167,500 · EducationTHE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INCCornell University — $360,000 · Education+9 more — $456,500 · EducationTHE EXUMA FOUNDATION — $405,000 · OtherTHE EXUMA FOUN…American Birkbeiner Foundation — $125,000 · OtherAmerican Birkb…Individual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $70,677 · OtherAMERICAN BIRKEBEINER SKI FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES — $100,000 · Other+80 more — $1,041,250 · Other+80 moreWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $414,000 · AnimalsRACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $330,000 · Animals+6 more — $59,250 · AnimalsJOURNEY TO LIVING FREE INC CO CURT JOHNSON — $590,000 · HealthHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION — $65,000 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $36,000 · Health+9 more — $65,000 · HealthTHE EXUMA FOUNDATION — $684,664 · International+3 more — $30,250 · InternationalTHE JOHNSON FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 · PhilanthropyRISEVB — $34,500 · PhilanthropyDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE — $20,000 · PhilanthropyLAKE OWEN ASSOCIATION INC — $250,000 · EnvironmentLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentRIVER BEND NATURE CENTER INC — $20,000 · Environment+5 more — $28,500 · Environment
Education$9,984,000Other$1,941,927Animals$803,250Health$756,000International$714,914Philanthropy$404,500Environment$348,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC — $9,167,500 over 9y, 10% of budgetTHE EXUMA FOUNDATION — $684,664 over 7y, 98% of budgetJOURNEY TO LIVING FREE INC CO CURT JOHNSON — $590,000 over 7y, 78% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $414,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCornell University — $360,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHNSON FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetRACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $330,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetNORTHLAND COLLEGE — $290,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLAKE OWEN ASSOCIATION INC — $250,000 over 2y, 92% of budgetAMERICAN BIRKEBEINER SKI FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES — $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC — $62,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY — $57,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLeahs Hopes and Dreams Organization — $55,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetRACINE COUNTY PROJECT EMERGENCY INC — $52,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMINNESOTA WILD FOUNDATION — $48,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $40,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC — $40,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHOMELESS ASSISTANCE LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $36,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRISEVB — $34,500 over 5y, 24% of budgetVeterans Outreach of Wisconsin — $33,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN — $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters — $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOCO'S HEART DOG RESCUE — $19,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDisabled American Veterans — $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER THE RACES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWATERORG — $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLees Friends — $13,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $10,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS OF VIRGINIA BEACH INC — $10,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIND CAMPAIGN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRACINE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Racine Community Foun…Lang Family Foundatio…AbbVie FoundationRuffo Family Foundati…United Way of Racine …Green Bay Packers Fou…Ec Styberg Foundation…Baird Foundation IncHerbert H Kohl Charit…Educators Credit UnionUnited Way of South H…Hampton Roads Communi…
Racine Community Foundation IncWI26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Racine Community Foundation Inc · Lang Family Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Ruffo Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Racine County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ec Styberg Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Educators Credit Union · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Hampton Roads Community 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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Johnson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Johnson Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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