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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 FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$246k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Johnston Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$12k50%
FY20237$14k100%
FY20223$15k100%
FY20214$17k75%
FY20204$14k75%
FY20194$15k0%
FY20184$15k75%
FY20174$18kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$48kHealth$44kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$8kReligion$8kCrime & Legal$3k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
CA
CO
NE
MO
AZ
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Johnston Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMegan Meier Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPatrick's Purpose Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetScripps Health: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNativity Prep Academy of San Diego Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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About Johnston Family Foundation

How much does Johnston Family Foundation give?
Johnston Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $12,286 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Johnston Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Health (37%), Youth Development (8%).
Who are Johnston Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Creighton University ($20k), Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc ($20k), Rachel's Challenge ($8k).
Does Johnston Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Johnston Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Johnston Family Foundation based?
Johnston Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 25 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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