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Johnston-Hanson Foundation at a glance

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Johnston-Hanson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$390k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.3MArts & Culture$259kHuman Services$180kRecreation & Sports$150kHealth$146kEnvironment$108kHousing & Shelter$107kPhilanthropy$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $281k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Gonzaga University$50,000
National Philanthropic Trust$38,000
Gonzaga Preparatory School$34,510
Community Colleges of Spokane$30,000
Mission Scholars$20,000
Habitat for Humanity$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
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Schweitzer Alpine Racing School$10,000
Dishman Hills Conservancy$10,000
Spokane Children's Theatre$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Denver Rescue Mission: $1k → 12%Angels Foster Care: $3k → 14%Denver Rescue Mission: $500 → 12%Angels Foster Care: $3k → 14%Fort Collins Rescue Mission: $5k → 11%Angels Foster Care: $3k → 14%Fund for American Diplomacy: $5k → 14%Angels Foster Care: $3k → 14%Path: $2k → 14%Path: $2k → 14%Path: $500 → 14%Unity Shoppe: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 71 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
37

Total granted

$2.6M
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+45%

Still filing today

39%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +42%
  • RC
    RIDGEVIEW CLASSICAL SCHOOLS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $92k · revenue +95%
  • DH
    DISHMAN HILLS CONSERVANCY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • RS
    Ridgeview School
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +14%
  • SS
    Spokane Symphony Society
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +19%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University Cooperative School

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.

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3
Siff

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.

Youth Development
4
Pacific University

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.

Education
5
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
6
Association of Washington Cities

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…

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7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
Pitzer College

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.…

Education
9
Philanthropy Southwest

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…

Philanthropy
10
University of the Pacific

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.

Education
11
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

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,…

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12
Furman University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; 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.
04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/54
Grantees still filing
38/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Gonzaga Preparatory School: $268,092 · OtherGonzaga Preparatory SchoolCommunity Colleges of Spokane: $225,750 · OtherCommunity Colleges of SpokaneHabitat for Humanity: $100,000 · OtherHabitat for HumanitySCHWEITZER ALPINE RACING SCHOOL: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherMARKET HOUSE THEATRE OF PADUCAH KENTUCKY INC: $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · Other+94 more: $878,102 · Other+94 moreCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $450,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIV…RIDGEVIEW CLASSICAL SCHOOLS: $92,000 · EducationRIDGEVIEW CLASSICAL SCHOOLSTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH C…Mission Scholars: $35,000 · EducationSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $30,000 · EducationPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $30,000 · Education+2 more: $1,000 · EducationCapitol Hill Community Foundation: $48,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $38,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE: $7,500 · PhilanthropyDISHMAN HILLS CONSERVANCY: $90,000 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentVANESSA BEHAN: $75,000 · Crime & LegalDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $45,000 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE INC: $10,000 · HealthLILAC SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $4,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 · HealthThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $39,500 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,781,944Education$688,000Philanthropy$93,500Environment$90,500Crime & Legal$75,000Health$62,000Food & Nutrition$59,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $450,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRIDGEVIEW CLASSICAL SCHOOLS: $92,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDISHMAN HILLS CONSERVANCY: $90,000 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetSCHWEITZER ALPINE RACING SCHOOL: $90,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetVANESSA BEHAN: $75,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMARKET HOUSE THEATRE OF PADUCAH KENTUCKY INC: $70,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $50,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCapitol Hill Community Foundation: $48,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpokane Parks Foundation: $45,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMACY: $40,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $39,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $38,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMission Scholars: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $30,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnoisseur Concerts Association: $20,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSPOKANE CIVIC THEATRE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetARIZONA BURN FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Spokane County: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $10,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPOKANE CHILDRENS THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSpokane Symphony Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE: $7,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $7,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR AMERICAN DIPLOMACY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPATH: $4,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBY THE WELL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWAPIYAPI: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL UNION MISSION: $1,602 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BICYCLE COALITION DBA MOVE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEED SPOT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT COLLINS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Spokane Parks Foundation ↗
  • 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 Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds Connoisseur Concerts Association ↗
  • Who funds SPOKANE CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA BURN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County ↗

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.

Innovia FoundationThe Avista FoundationJohnston-Fix Foundati…ArtsfundBnsf Railway Foundati…Carl M Hansen Foundat…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…First Interstate Banc…Santa Barbara Foundat…The Is & Emily Fetter…The Bergquist Foundat…Believe in Me
Innovia FoundationWA25.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Johnston-Hanson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Johnston-Hanson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Johnston-Hanson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Johnston-Hanson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 121 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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