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Johnson Wd and Sc Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$730k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$952kEducation$666kHealth$205kFood & Nutrition$120kPhilanthropy$70kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kEnvironment$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $560k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BLUE AND RED SANTA PROJECT$20,000
SPHINX ORGANIZATION$20,000
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC$20,000
SUSANNAH'S HOUSE INC$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BUFFALO STRING WORKS INC: $20k → 13%EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $200k → 14%NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE: $10k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $10k → 14%SPHINX ORGANIZATION: $20k → 21%KANBE'S MARKETS: $10k → 15%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TN: $20k → 10%BIG EARS FESTIVAL: $100k → 12%MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM: $50k → 8%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF METROLINA: $10k → 10%UNC AT CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OF LAW: $200k → 13%RESEARCH STRATEGIES NETWORK: $25k → 6%BLUE AND RED SANTA PROJECT: $20k → 8%FEEDING GREENE INC: $10k → 8%BUFFALO STRING WORKS INC: $15k → 13%EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $175k → 14%ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER - LUCY: $10k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $10k → 14%SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC: $10k → 21%BIG EARS FESTIVAL: $50k → 12%MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM: $15k → 8%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF METROLINA: $10k → 10%UNC AT CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OF LAW: $85k → 13%BUFFALO STRING WORKS INC: $10k → 13%EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $77k → 14%ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER - LUCY: $10k → 17%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION: $10k → 14%SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC: $10k → 21%BIG EARS FESTIVAL: $15k → 12%FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC: $20k → 8%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF METROLINA: $10k → 10%UNC AT CHAPEL HILL: $55k → 13%EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $75k → 14%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION: $10k → 14%BIG EARS FESTIVIVAL: $10k → 12%FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $10k → 8%HOPEWAY FOUNDATION: $75k → 10%UNC AT CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OF LAW: $50k → 13%EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $56k → 14%UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE: $50k → 12%FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $10k → 8%HOPEWAY FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%UNC AT CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OF LAW: $25k → 13%SUSANNAH'S HOUSE INC: $20k → 12%HOPEWAY FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%UNC AT CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OF LAW: $20k → 13%CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS: $125k → 13%CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS: $75k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 15 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$1.9M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
-14%

Still filing today

73%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’24
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthInternationalEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BE
    BIG EARS FESTIVAL
    4× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +523%
  • HF
    HopeWay Foundation
    3× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +85%
  • MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM
    2× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2018 · $55k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -82%
  • RS
    RESEARCH STRATEGIES NETWORK
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -14% · 66% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
Nashville Food Project Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
3
Harvest Hope Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc

To provide food assistance through a network of partners, while educating and engaging our communities in the elimination of hunger and its causes.

Food & Nutrition
5
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

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.

Human Services
6
Farmer Foodshare Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc

To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.

Food & Nutrition
9
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
10
Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc

To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises

Food & Nutrition
11
Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
12
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 23 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $583,066 · OtherEASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSICUNC AT CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OF LAW: $380,000 · OtherUNC AT CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OF LAWCAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS: $200,000 · OtherCAROLINA PERFORMING ARTSMARBLES KIDS MUSEUM: $65,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $55,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC: $50,000 · Other+4 more: $75,000 · OtherBIG EARS FESTIVAL: $175,000 · Arts & CultureBIG EARS FESTIVALLUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureLUNA COMPOSITION …BUFFALO STRING WORKS INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO STRING WO…SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSPHINX ORGANIZATI…HopeWay Foundation: $175,000 · HealthHopeWay Fou…SUSANNAH'S HOUSE INC: $30,000 · HealthSUSANNAH'S …FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $30,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING GREENE INC - THE FOOD PANTRY OF GREENE COUNTY: $10,000 · Food & NutritionKANBE'S MARKETS: $10,000 · Food & NutritionWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,000 · InternationalBLUE AND RED SANTA PROJECT: $20,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Environment
Other$1,408,066Arts & Culture$315,000Health$205,000Food & Nutrition$100,000International$30,000Philanthropy$20,000Environment$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIG EARS FESTIVAL: $175,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetHopeWay Foundation: $175,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMARBLES KIDS MUSEUM: $65,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC: $55,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUFFALO STRING WORKS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUSANNAH'S HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetRESEARCH STRATEGIES NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetBLUE AND RED SANTA PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING GREENE INC - THE FOOD PANTRY OF GREENE COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Johnson Wd and Sc Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Johnson Wd and Sc Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Johnson Wd and Sc Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Johnson Wd and Sc Family Foundation 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.

    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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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