Missouri · Private foundation
Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main
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.
- $20M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $20M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $70M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $19M | 71% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $24M | 46% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $527k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $1.2M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $458k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $356k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $365k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Opera Association Inc | $20,000,000 | 3 | 4% |
| University of Miami | $14,150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The New York Climate Exchange Inc | $10,000,000 | 1 | 9% |
| The Frick Collection | $5,498,750 | 7 | 5% |
| Millbrook School | $1,679,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc | $1,189,000 | 6 | 24% |
| Mystic Seaport Museum Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Salisbury Winter Sports Assoc Inc | $650,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sharon Historical Society | $366,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Partnership With Children Inc | $366,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($645k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Thanksgiving Foundation Bessemer Trust Company Na · The Offensend Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main
- How much does Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main give?
- Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main reported 8 grants totaling $19,998,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Arts & Culture (34%), Environment (15%).
- Who are Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ($20M), University of Miami ($14M), The New York Climate Exchange Inc ($10M).
- Does Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main 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 Robert K Foundation-Main?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, Thanksgiving Foundation Bessemer Trust Company Na, The Offensend Family Foundation.
- Where is Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main based?
- Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main is based in MO.
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