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Karl M Johnson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$475k
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$579kEducation$328kHuman Services$298kHousing & Shelter$71kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kYouth Development$62kCrime & Legal$57kRecreation & Sports$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k44 grants · $236k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $239k
$6,750
Median grant
10
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING$13,500
SENIORS WEST OF THE TETONS$13,500
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$13,500
ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WOUNDED WARRIORS INC: $9k → 12%JACKSON HOLE THERAPUTIC RIDING ASSO: $11k → 5%JASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIORS INC: $9k → 12%JACKSON HOLE THERAPUTIC RIDING ASSO: $7k → 5%WOUNDED WARRIORS INC: $1k → 12%JACKSON HOLE THERAPUTIC RIDING ASSO: $7k → 5%JACKSON HOLE THERAPUTIC RIDING ASSO: $7k → 5%JASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%JACKSON HOLE THERAPUTIC RIDING ASSO: $4k → 5%JASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%JACKSON HOLE THERAPUTIC RIDING ASSO: $4k → 5%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF TETON: $4k → 7%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF TETON: $4k → 7%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

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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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 70 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
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Total granted

$1.7M
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+15%

Still filing today

50%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SC
    SENIOR CENTER OF JACKSON HOLE INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +86%
  • TY
    TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
    6× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +82%
  • SJ
    St John's Health Foundation
    6× · 2019–2025 · $54k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue +83%
  • UA
    UND Aerospace Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +39%
  • O2
    ONE 22 RESOURCE CNETER
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
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.

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The Teton Springs Foundation Inc 01
Philanthropy
2
Trout Unlimited Jackson Hole 051

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…

Animals
3
Walk Family Jackson Hole Housing Fund
Arts & Culture
4
The Jackson Hole Technology Partnership

To fuel local, regional and global tech ecosystems to shape a better future.

Science & Tech
5
The Tvrc Education Foundation Inc

The mission of teton valley ranch camp is to provide inspiring western adventure in the jackson hole and yellowstone area.

Youth Development
6
Teton Valley Health Care Foundation

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…

Health
7
Cowboy State Daily

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Teton County Search & Rescue Foundation

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Teton Board of Realtors Community Housing Fund

Creating affordable housing opportunities for teton countys essential employees.

Housing & Shelter
10
Jackson Hole Community Housing Trust

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…

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11
Teton County Sheriff's Auxiliary

To ensure that the teton county sheriff and jackson police departments have the necessary equipment, training and facilities to safely perform their duties.

Crime & Legal
12
Teton Valley Ski Education Foundation Inc

To provide an affordable winter sports program for young athletes to meet their individual potential for excellence through education and opportunity for competition.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jackson Hole Therapeutic Riding; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 93 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/46
Grantees still filing
34/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TETON VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $141,350 · OtherTETON VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONPRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $122,000 · OtherPRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITALSENIOR CENTER OF JACKSON HOLE INC: $85,250 · OtherSENIOR CENTER OF JACKSON HOLE INCCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $44,500 · OtherTETON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $41,000 · Other+65 more: $793,806 · Other+65 moreEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC: $48,300 · EducationEDUCATION F…UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …Jackson Hole Community School: $30,750 · EducationJackson Hol…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $21,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SIL…TETON LITERACY CENTER: $20,400 · EducationTETON LITER…JACKSON BRONC BACKERS: $11,750 · EducationJACKSON BRO…UND Aerospace Foundation: $10,000 · EducationTeton Music School: $8,000 · EducationJASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $52,000 · Human ServicesJACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $39,050 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $19,400 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF TETON VALLEY: $8,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,000 · Human ServicesTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $65,350 · HealthSt John's Health Foundation: $53,500 · HealthTETON VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH COALITION INC: $15,000 · HealthGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $30,450 · PhilanthropyEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $19,400 · Philanthropy+1 more: $229 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC: $42,300 · EmploymentHole Food Rescue: $25,250 · Food & NutritionTETON VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,875 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,227,906Education$190,200Human Services$135,450Health$133,850Philanthropy$50,079Employment$42,300Food & Nutrition$36,125

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 budgetSENIOR CENTER OF JACKSON HOLE INC: $85,250 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $65,350 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $53,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $52,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC: $48,300 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC: $42,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $39,050 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILY SAFETY NETWORK INC: $33,100 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetJackson Hole Community School: $30,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $30,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN MISSION: $28,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area: $27,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $25,750 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetHole Food Rescue: $25,250 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Wyoming Inc: $23,450 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SAFETY NETWORK: $23,400 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTETON LITERACY CENTER: $20,400 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $19,400 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $19,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJackson Hole Youth Basketball: $18,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH & RECOVERY SERVICES OF JACKSON HOLE: $17,050 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTalons Reach Foundation Inc: $16,647 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJACKSON YOUTH HOCKEY: $15,700 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTETON VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH COALITION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTETON ADAPTIVE: $14,750 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $12,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON BRONC BACKERS: $11,750 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetDANCERS WORKSHOP: $11,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHANKS USA: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTETON VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,875 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUND Aerospace Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeton Music School: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCURRAN SEELEY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF TETON VALLEY: $8,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC: $4,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHumanitarian Experience Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON CUPBOARD: $1,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJACKSON HOLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Center for the Arts: $274 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeton Valley Foundation: $229 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 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …First Interstate Banc…Hughes Charitable Fou…Hughes Charitable Fou…The Brooks FoundationWyoming Community Fou…Start Something That …Giving BrandsPerkins Charitable Fo…The Andrew Allen Char…The Teton Springs Fou…William E Weiss Found…
Community Foundation of Jackson HoleWY66.4× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Karl M Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karl M Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Karl M Johnson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Karl M Johnson 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 93 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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