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Johnson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$84k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
53
Grants FY2024
53
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,200
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
46 to 55
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$517k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Johnson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesReligionAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving53$84k0%
FY202353$79k0%
FY202255$80k7%
FY202153$60k49%
FY202051$56k10%
FY201950$54k6%
FY201848$48k4%
FY201746$43kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$90kHuman Services$78kArts & Culture$64kHealth$57kReligion$54kYouth Development$31kPhilanthropy$26kHousing & Shelter$23kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Montana Rescue Mission$15,70080%
Department of Public Health & Human Services$12,0003n/a
Alberta Bair Theater Corporation$11,00060%
The University of Montana Foundation$9,60080%
Billings Clinic Foundation$9,40080%
Tumbleweed Runaway Program Inc$8,40080%
Montana State University Foundation Inc$8,40080%
Family Service$8,20080%
Big Sky Senior Services Inc$7,90080%
Special K Ranch$7,90080%
Show all 37 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($283k), 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.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMontana Rescue Mission: $15,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAlberta Bair Theater Corporation: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Montana Foundation: $9,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBillings Clinic Foundation: $9,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTumbleweed Runaway Program Inc: $8,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc: $8,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Service: $8,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sky Senior Services Inc: $7,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial K Ranch: $7,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBillings Trailnet: $7,600 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBillings Preservation Society Inc: $7,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBetter Billings Foundation: $7,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYellowstone Valley Animal Shelter: $7,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetProvision International Inc: $7,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBillings Studio Theatre Inc: $6,800 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFriendship House of Christian Service Inc: $5,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Heritage Center: $5,200 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBillings Food Bank Inc: $5,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetZooMontana Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Montana: $5,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAdult Resource Alliance of Yellowstone County: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEagle Mount: $4,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Vincent Healthcare Foundation Inc: $4,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYellowstone River Parks Association: $4,200 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetYellowstone Art Museum: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way: $4,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCarbon County Historical Society: $3,700 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetYellowstone Casa Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Crisis Center LLC: $3,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEducation Foundation for Billings Public Schools: $2,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSilver Run Skiing Foundation: $2,600 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Promise of Yellowstone Valley: $2,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI-Billings: $1,900 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRiverStone Health Foundation: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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.

First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Fair View Foundation · Billings Community Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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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.

About Johnson Family Foundation

How much does Johnson Family Foundation give?
Johnson Family Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $84,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 55 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Johnson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (18%), Human Services (15%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are Johnson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Montana Rescue Mission ($16k), Department of Public Health & Human Services ($12k), Alberta Bair Theater Corporation ($11k).
Does Johnson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% 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 First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Montana Community Foundation Inc, The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation.
Where is Johnson Family Foundation based?
Johnson Family Foundation is based in MT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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