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Johnson Wd and Sc Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $560k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $175,000 |
| CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS | $125,000 |
| BIG EARS FESTIVAL | $100,000 |
| UNC AT CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OF LAW | $85,000 |
| HOPEWAY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| LUNA COMPOSITION LAB | $35,000 |
| SPHINX ORGANIZATION | $20,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC | $20,000 |
| SUSANNAH'S HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| BLUE AND RED SANTA PROJECT | $20,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TN | $20,000 |
| MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| FEEDING GREENE INC | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of your 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- HFHopeWay Foundation3× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +85%
- BEBIG EARS FESTIVAL4× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +523%
MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM2× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2018 · $55k
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -82%
- RSRESEARCH STRATEGIES NETWORKone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -14% · 66% 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 food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
To provide food assistance through a network of partners, while educating and engaging our communities in the elimination of hunger and its causes.
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
Our mission is to increase access to fresh, local food for all while supporting the viability of marginalized farmers to create a more equitable food system.
The mission of the southeast missouri food bank is to promote food recovery; acquire and distribute food and household products; and provide community leadership and education on issues of hunger and poverty in an effort to alleviate…
To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.
To lead a network of partners to alleviate hunger, prevent food waste, and nourish the communities we serve. our vision is that all people have the nutritious food they need to thrive.
To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises
Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.
The food bank purchases food and obtains donations of food from the united states department of agriculture, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, growers and community members for distribution to people in need in 25 counties and eight…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Research Strategies Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 23 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 HopeWay Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIG EARS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO STRING WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SUSANNAH'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH STRATEGIES NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BLUE AND RED SANTA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds FEEDING GREENE INC - THE FOOD PANTRY OF GREENE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wd and Sc Family Foundation 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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