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Johnston-Hanson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $281k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gonzaga University | $50,000 |
| National Philanthropic Trust | $38,000 |
| Gonzaga Preparatory School | $34,510 |
| Community Colleges of Spokane | $30,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $20,000 |
| Mission Scholars | $20,000 |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | $20,000 |
| Ridgeview Classical Schools | $15,000 |
| Market House Theatre | $12,500 |
| Food Bank for Larimer County | $10,500 |
| Union Gospel Mission | $10,000 |
| University of Utah | $10,000 |
| Spokane Children's Theatre | $10,000 |
| NW Museum of Arts Culture | $10,000 |
| YMCA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
71 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +42%- RCRIDGEVIEW CLASSICAL SCHOOLS7× · 2019–2025 · $92k · revenue +95%
- DHDISHMAN HILLS CONSERVANCY9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- RSRidgeview Schoolone grant, 2017 · $25k
- SHSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWESTone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +14%
- SSSpokane Symphony Societyone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +19%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
Foster meaningful philanthropy and trusted relationships that impact the southwest region's people, communities, and most pressing issues.philanthropy southwest (psw) membership is about valuable connections and leading-edge learning that…
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust and the most unlike its peers is Freedom Brothers Recovery and Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 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. 54 of the 121 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 CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RIDGEVIEW CLASSICAL SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds DISHMAN HILLS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SCHWEITZER ALPINE RACING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VANESSA BEHAN ↗
- Who funds MARKET HOUSE THEATRE OF PADUCAH KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Capitol Hill Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Spokane Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMACY ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds Mission Scholars ↗
- Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Connoisseur Concerts Association ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA BURN FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
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 Johnston-Hanson 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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