· Private foundation
Jos & Catherine JOHNSON FAMILY FDN
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $181k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Diocese of Ikot Ekpene | $80,000 |
| St Peter Catholic Church | $30,000 |
| Sacred Heart South Missions Housing | $10,000 |
| Water 1st International | $10,000 |
| The Elephant Sanctuary | $8,000 |
| National Parks Conservation Assoc | $8,000 |
| Savory Institute | $5,000 |
| Kiss the Ground | $5,000 |
| Luekemia Lymphoma Society | $5,000 |
| The Rodale Institute | $5,000 |
| Trees for the Future | $5,000 |
| Crane Trust | $5,000 |
| Blood Cancer United | $5,000 |
| Pollinator Partnership | $5,000 |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 17 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +57%
WILD SALMON CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +371%
CHARITY GLOBAL INC7× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- DODIOCESE OF IKOT EKPENE OFFICE FOR THE MISSIONS USAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +58%
- MSMADELEINE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $20k
- ABALTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
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.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…
Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places.
Wild landscapes, inc. (wli) is dedicated to conserving large and connected landscapes globally significant to wildlife and crucial to local communities. our environmental conservation strategy is to empower communities, conservationists,…
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
How this is measured
75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 119 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds DIOCESE OF IKOT EKPENE OFFICE FOR THE MISSIONS USA ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Native Fish Society Inc ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MADONNA RENEWAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY GULF ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DRAWDOWN ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
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: Patagoniaorg · Meyer Memorial Trust · Clif Family Foundation · Kohnstamm Family Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Collins Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Pledgeling Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Nature Conservancy
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jos & Catherine JOHNSON FAMILY FDN funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jos & Catherine JOHNSON FAMILY FDN. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
- Native Fish Society Inc: 27% of income from government
- Oregon Community Warehouse Inc: 24% of income from government
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
- Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
- Solve: 5% of income from government
- International Game Fish Association Inc: 2% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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