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Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $342k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Center for Inquiry International | $180,000 |
| San Diego State University | $85,000 |
| Atheists United | $40,000 |
| National Health Association | $40,000 |
| Thomas Paine National Historical As | $37,500 |
| Thomas Paine Memorial Association | $35,000 |
| Camp Quest Inc | $35,000 |
| Plant Powered Metro New York | $35,000 |
| Prader-Willi Syndrome Association | $30,000 |
| True North Health FDN | $30,000 |
| Father Joe's Village | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,000 |
| American Humanist Association | $10,000 |
| American Atheists | $10,000 |
| San Diego Natural History Museum | $6,874 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NHNATIONAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +500%
- PSPRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +118%
- SDSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY6× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- IUIONA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +26%
- TFTrees for Health Gardenone grant, 2017 · $17k
- SGSusan G Komen Circle of Influenceone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It encourages the fruitful exchange of ideas within academia and society at large…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
To serve humanity through the promotion of medical freedom and the uncensored liberty to speak without recrimination while upholding Gods methods as the best means of optimizing physical, mental, and spiritual health.
The Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine (AIHM) is a global interprofessional integrative health association working to transform healthcare body, mind, spirt, community & planet. AIHM is the leading professional organization for the…
Advocating for Human-Centered Design as a regional approach to improve economic, social, and civic life in our community.Design Forward Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to leveraging the power of design to drive social impact.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Museum of Man Dba Museum of Us and the most unlike its peers is TrueNorth Health Foundation. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 43 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds MENLO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Atheists United ↗
- Who funds San Diego Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAMP QUEST INC ↗
- Who funds PLANT POWERED METRO NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ATHEISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Thomas Paine Memorial Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TrueNorth Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of San Diego ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS PAINE SOCIETY OF PASADENA ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS SAVE LIVES ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN DBA MUSEUM OF US ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANIST INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Special Delivery San Diego ↗
- Who funds HUMANIST SOCIETY OF GREATER PHOENIX INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Stiefel Freethought Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Heller Foundation of San Diego · The Parker Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Sempra 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 James Hervey Char Ed Trust 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.
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.
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