· 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.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+5 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK CLIMATE EXCHANGE INC | $10,000,000 |
| THE FRICK COLLECTION | $5,048,750 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $3,000,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000,000 |
| SALISBURY WINTER SPORTS ASSOC INC | $650,000 |
| BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL | $100,000 |
| INNISFREE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
16 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $20M · revenue +0%- UOUniversity of Miami2× · 2023–2025 · $14M · revenue +19%
- TFThe Frick Collection7× · 2018–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +44%
Funded once
- SHSHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $366k
- PWPARTNERSHIP WITH CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $366k · revenue +25%
- ATAIKEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +196% · 60% of their budget
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 new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
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."
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership With Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Innisfree Foundation Inc. 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 52 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 40 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 Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK CLIMATE EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY WINTER SPORTS ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP WITH CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA ALBRECHT CENTER FOR ANIMAL WELFARE ↗
- Who funds HARLEM VALLEY RAIL TRAIL ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds AIKEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE WASSAIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FROST VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds HITCHCOCK WOODS FOUNDATION THE ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds LJMN Media Inc ↗
- Who funds INNISFREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC ↗
- Who funds THE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIEND MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
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: 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
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 Robert K Foundation-Main 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
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.