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Johnston 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.

$12k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$48kHealth$44kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$8kReligion$8kCrime & Legal$3k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$246k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY$4,000
RACHEL'S CHALLENGE$4,000
SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION$4,000
SALVATION ARMY$286
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RACHEL'S CHALLENGE: $4k → 8%RACHEL'S CHALLENGE: $4k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
CA
CO
NE
MO
AZ
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$58k · 5 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
18

Total granted

$58k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+291%

Still filing today

80%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CU
    Creighton University
    4× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +48%
  • PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $20k · revenue -19%
  • RC
    RACHEL'S CHALLENGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue -5%

Funded once

  • CITY OF HOPE
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -25%
  • SJ
    ST JAMES ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • MM
    MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +291%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
4
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
5
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
6
Southern California University of Health Sciences

To educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics, scholarship, service and leadership through its offerings of bachelor,…

Education
7
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
8
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
9
Banner Health

Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".

Health
10
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
11
Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
12
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Rise Up Industries. 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

7 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $5,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLST JAMES ACADEMY — $5,000 · OtherST JAMES ACADEMYBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF SAN DIEGO — $5,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF SAN DIEGOSALK INSTITUTE — $5,000 · OtherSALK INSTITUTECRISTO REY CATHOLIC EDUCATION — $5,000 · OtherCRISTO REY CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAMERICAN STROKE ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · OtherAMERICAN STROKE ASSOCIATIONRIVERSIDE COUNTY BENEVOLENT FUND — $4,500 · OtherRIVERSIDE COUNTY BENEVOLENT FUNDRETIREMENT FUND FOR RELIGIOUS — $3,000 · OtherRETIREMENT FUND FOR RELIGIOUSRESTORATIVE JUSTICE MEDIATION PROGR — $3,000 · OtherRESTORATIVE JUSTICE MEDIATION PROGRINTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION — $2,500 · OtherNATIVITY PREP ACADEMY — $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · Other+6 more — $5,286 · Other+6 morePANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $19,500 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NE…CITY OF HOPE — $6,000 · HealthCITY OF HOPESCRIPPS HEALTH — $4,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTHCreighton University — $20,000 · EducationCreighton UniversityPATRICK'S PURPOSE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationPATRICK'S PURPOSE FOUND…RACHEL'S CHALLENGE — $8,000 · Human ServicesMEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$52,786Health$29,500Education$25,000Human Services$8,000Youth Development$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCreighton University — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $19,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRACHEL'S CHALLENGE — $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCITY OF HOPE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATRICK'S PURPOSE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Creighton University
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds RACHEL'S CHALLENGE
  • Who funds CITY OF HOPE
  • Who funds PATRICK'S PURPOSE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Johnston 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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