· Private foundation
Johnson Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k11 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $294k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $94,091 |
| KIDS AROUND THE WORLD | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| RAINBOW HOSPICE CARE | $8,500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| NORTH BEND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CURE EPILEPSY | $5,000 |
| OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN | $1,100 |
| MADISON COLLEGE | $1,064 |
| LAKE MILLS MORAVIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC | $600 |
| AMERICAN FAMILY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100 |
| LAKE MILLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KAKIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC4× · 2017–2020 · $69k · revenue +86%
- RHRAINBOW HOSPICE CARE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +90%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $26k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- MAMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $11k
- CFCURE FOR EPILEPSY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- LULAKELAND UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -12%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
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.
To support scientific research within the uw-madison community by providing financial support, actively managing assets, and moving innovations to the marketplace for a financial return and global impact.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
The university of iowa research foundation's (uirf) mission is to: advance, develop, increase and extend the progress of science and useful arts through encouraging and assisting investigation, research and education at the state…
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
A non-profit organization with the sole purpose of supporting the university of minnesota with a mission to connect passion with possibility, inspire generosity, and support greatness at the university of minnesota.
To improve lives in our global community by educating diverse groups of highly competent and compassionate health professionals.
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds KIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds WESTERN POULTRY SCHOLARSHIP & RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE MILLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Mills Rotary Foundation Inc ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Johnson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Johnson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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