· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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 +37% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- SDSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN DBA MUSEUM OF USone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -9%
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.
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.…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 43 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 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 CAMP QUEST INC ↗
- Who funds San Diego Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ATHEISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Thomas Paine Memorial Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANT POWERED METRO NEW YORK 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 THOMAS PAINE SOCIETY OF PASADENA ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS SAVE LIVES ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN DBA MUSEUM OF US ↗
- Who funds Special Delivery San Diego ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANIST INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HUMANIST SOCIETY OF GREATER PHOENIX 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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