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Johnson-Weaver Foundation
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 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER | $12,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $7,000 |
| CONNER PRAIRIE LIVING HISTORY MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| SAT-7 | $6,000 |
| BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP | $6,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $5,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS CHILDRENS CHOIR | $5,000 |
| BENJAMIN HARRISON HOME FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC | $4,000 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| EARLY LEARNING INDIANA | $2,500 |
| THE NAVIGATORS | $2,000 |
| NETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MRMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +12%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC8× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +78%- SNSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA8× · 2018–2025 · $49k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- PTPARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue 0%
- COCROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +17%
- CCCROSSROAD COUNCIL BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $500
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
One for israel's purposes are to unite u.s. and international churches, ministries and individuals for the proclamation of the gospel in israel, to raise funds for evangelism and gospel proclamation, to provide tangible relief for israel's…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pure Water for the World Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 34 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 MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Children's Choir ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ROTARY FOUNDATION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds PARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: Batt Family Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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-Weaver 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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.
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