How much did JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

billingsyellowstonechildrenhealtheducationboys girlsclinic

2019

billingsyellowstonechildrenhealthcliniceducationboys girls

2020

billingsyellowstoneeducationhealthmuseumboys girlsrescue

2021

further exempt

2022

further exempt

2023

further exempt

2024

further exempt

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k52 grants · $74k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$1,200

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$5,000
BILLINGS LIBRARY FOUNDATION$4,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB YELLOWSTONE CO$3,500
FAMILY SERVICES$2,500
NAMI$2,000
RIVERSTONE HEALTH$2,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$1,500
MT SCHOOL FOR DEAF BLIND$1,500
CASA OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY$1,500
FAMILY PROMISE$1,500
YWCA ENDOWMENT$1,500
LA VIE$1,500
YELLOWSTONE RIVER PARKS$1,500
ALBERTA BAIR THEATRE$1,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$499k · 86 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against -30% for the ones you funded once.

86 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$499k

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

-30%

Still filing today

31%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentHealthOther

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

MR
MONTANA RESCUE MISSION
8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +128%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +42%
BC
BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +163%

Funded once

RM
RESCUE MISSION CAPITAL CITY
one grant, 2020 · $5k
RH
RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -30%
RM
RESUE MISSION
one grant, 2021 · $1k

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.

Montana State University Billings

The Foundation is a charitable organization founded to advance the goals of MSU Billings.

Education

Butte Emergency Food Bank

Provide food for individuals in need

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Bozeman Art Museum

To inspire and foster creativity and a love of art through diverse and high quality exhibits programs classes and lectures.

Arts & Culture

Billings Family Ymca Inc

The ymca of billings montana is a charitable, community service organization that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. we further our cause to strengthen community through youth…

Human Services

Yellowstone Health Partnership

The Yellowstone Health Partnership supports the activities of the Yellowstone City-County Health Department dba RiverStone Health.

Health

Scenic Montana Trails

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Billings Symphony Society

The billings symphony society (the symphony) presents orchestra and chorale concerts for the enjoyment of area residents. the symphony seeks public and private contributions as well as selling season and individual tickets for performances.

Arts & Culture

Action for Eastern Montana

Action for Eastern Montana is committed to strengthening and enhancing the quality of life within the communities we serve by promoting education, advocacy and dignity for achieving independence.

Human Services

Yellowstone Behavioral Health

Provide quality mental health services to residents of park county.

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Montana State Parks Foundation

The montana state parks foundation helps to bridge the gap between state funding and the needs of montana's state parks.

Recreation & Sports

Working Montanans

Working Montanans' mission is to advocate for an economy that works for working people and other critical issues.

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Montana Budget and Policy Center

To advance responsible tax, budget, and economic policies through credible research and analysis in order to promote opportunity and fairness for all Montanans.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Billings Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Education Foundation for Billings Public. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/30

the rest of the field

86/909

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.

05the grantee network

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/29

Grantees still filing

24/29

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$417,600Arts & Culture$25,200Philanthropy$17,900Education$13,600Human Services$13,600Environment$11,800Animals$7,200

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.

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.

First Interstate BancSystem FoundationMT45.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation In · First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth Foundation · Billings Community Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · Mkm Foundation Inc · Susan Scott Heyneman Foundation · Sample Foundation 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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 810386302 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Johnson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Johnson Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Johnson Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Johnson Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph