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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.

$629k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$180,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 20
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$8.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’23’24
Recreation & SportsReligionEducationHealthArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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
FY2025still arriving18$629k28%
FY202414$217k0%
FY202314$209k21%
FY20211$45k0%
FY202012$137k33%
FY201913$288k23%
FY201819$376k37%
FY201720$378kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$727kEducation$514kHealth$348kArts & Culture$234kPhilanthropy$143kCivil Rights$130kFood & Nutrition$81kRecreation & Sports$80kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
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NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
AZ
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Health Association: $110,000 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetPrader-Willi Syndrome Association (Usa): $69,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSan Diego Society of Natural History: $67,874 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMenlo College: $58,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAtheists United: $52,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetSan Diego Parks Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Atheists Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPlant Powered Metro New York Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTrueNorth Health Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetThe American Humanist Association: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetIona University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls on the Run of San Diego: $24,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetMama's Kitchen: $23,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThomas Paine Society of Pasadena: $20,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetSan Diego Public Library Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOptions Save Lives: $13,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetSan Diego Museum of Man Dba Museum of US: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSpecial Delivery San Diego: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAnimal Protection League: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHumanist Society of Greater Phoenix Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHumanist Community of Central Ohio: $2,500 over 1y, 19% 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 21.

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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.

Stiefel Freethought FoundationDE17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 James Hervey Char Ed Trust?

Find your warmest path to Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust 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 James Hervey Char Ed Trust

How much does Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust give?
Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust reported 18 grants totaling $628,974 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (30%), Education (21%), Health (14%).
Who are Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Health Association ($110k), Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (Usa) ($69k), San Diego Society of Natural History ($68k).
Does Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust 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 James Hervey Char Ed Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stiefel Freethought Foundation, Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation, Pratt Memorial Fund.
Where is Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust based?
Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust is based in CA.

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 43 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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