Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Johnston-Hanson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $390k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Johnston-Hanson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $347k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $303k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $261k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $261k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $298k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $304k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $320k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 49 | $326k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corporation of Gonzaga University | $450,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ridgeview Classical Schools | $92,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Dishman Hills Conservancy | $90,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Schweitzer Alpine Racing School | $90,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Vanessa Behan | $75,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Market House Theatre of Paducah Kentucky Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Spokane Parks Foundation | $45,000 | 7 | 2% |
| American Academy of Diplomacy | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Johnston-Hanson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Johnston-Fix Foundation · Artsfund · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Carl M Hansen Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Is & Emily Fetterman Foundation · The Bergquist Foundation Attn Eric Sachtjen · Believe in Me
How this is measured
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About Johnston-Hanson Foundation
- How much does Johnston-Hanson Foundation give?
- Johnston-Hanson Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $390,010 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Johnston-Hanson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Arts & Culture (9%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Johnston-Hanson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Corporation of Gonzaga University ($450k), Ridgeview Classical Schools ($92k), Dishman Hills Conservancy ($90k).
- Does Johnston-Hanson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Johnston-Hanson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Johnston-Hanson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Innovia Foundation, The Avista Foundation, Johnston-Fix Foundation.
- Where is Johnston-Hanson Foundation based?
- Johnston-Hanson Foundation is based in DC.
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