· Private foundation
Karl M Johnson 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $236k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $239k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TETON VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| PRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $27,000 |
| SENIOR CENTER OF JACKSON HOLE | $20,250 |
| TETON YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $20,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ND AVIATION FOUNDATIO | $17,625 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $13,500 |
| ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $13,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $13,500 |
| SENIORS WEST OF THE TETONS | $13,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS INC | $12,150 |
| JACKSON HOLE THERAPUTIC RIDING ASSO | $11,050 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLE | $11,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES | $10,800 |
| TETON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 401 | $10,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $9,450 |
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 (FY19–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 67% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- SCSENIOR CENTER OF JACKSON HOLE INC6× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +211%
- TYTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES6× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +82%
- SJSt John's Health Foundation6× · 2019–2025 · $54k · revenue +8%
Funded once
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue +83%- UAUND Aerospace Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +39%
- NGNO GREATER SACRIFICEone grant, 2024 · $8k
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.
Jhtu was formed in 1983 in jackson, wyoming, to conserve, protect, and restore jackson hole's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. currently jhtu has a membershp of 410 jackson hole residents and others concerned about the precious…
To fuel local, regional and global tech ecosystems to shape a better future.
The mission of teton valley ranch camp is to provide inspiring western adventure in the jackson hole and yellowstone area.
Teton Valley Health Care Foundation strives to build mutually beneficial relationships with community members, businesses, and guests that, through their generosity, support a healthy and thriving valley. (Continued on Schedule O). Through…
Cowboy state daily's mission is to provide high-quality local and statewide reporting on the issues that impact wyoming, featuring stories that capture wyoming's wonderful "small town with long streets" vibe.
The Teton County Search and Rescue Foundation provides direct support, community education, and advocacy for the benefit of the Teton County Search and Rescue volunteers.
Creating affordable housing opportunities for teton countys essential employees.
The mission of the jackson hole community housing trust (cht) is to conserve community in teton county by developing essential, affordable housing. the cht is dedicated to the provision, management, and administration of affordable rental…
To ensure that the teton county sheriff and jackson police departments have the necessary equipment, training and facilities to safely perform their duties.
To provide an affordable winter sports program for young athletes to meet their individual potential for excellence through education and opportunity for competition.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jackson Hole Therapeutic Riding and the most unlike its peers is Community Safety Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 93 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 SENIOR CENTER OF JACKSON HOLE INC ↗
- Who funds TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds St John's Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds JASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SAFETY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Jackson Hole Community School ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hole Food Rescue ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Wyoming Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SAFETY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TETON LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds Jackson Hole Youth Basketball ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH & RECOVERY SERVICES OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds Talons Reach Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKSON YOUTH HOCKEY ↗
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: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · The Brooks Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · Start Something That Matters Foundation · Giving Brands · Perkins Charitable Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · The Teton Springs Foundation Inc 01 · William E Weiss Foundation Inc
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 Karl M Johnson 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.
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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