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Katherine Butler Johnson Foundation

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.

$10k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$9,676
Largest grant, FY2025
$9,676
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Katherine Butler Johnson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$10k0%
FY20248$25k0%
FY20239$38k44%
FY20227$24k29%
FY20212$13k0%
FY20204$20k0%
FY20196$22k50%
FY20183$28k100%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$138kArts & Culture$26kHuman Services$15kFood & Nutrition$11kHealth$7kHousing & Shelter$4kEducation$4kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Spectacular Follies$25,000110%
Diocese of Dallas$16,5003n/a
North Texas Food Bank$9,00030%
Convent of the Sacred Heart$7,0005n/a
Family Promise of Collin County$4,00031%
Allen Community Outreach$4,00040%
Allen Ministerial Alliance Food Pantry and Clothing Closet$2,00021%
Adaptive Training Foundation$1,00010%
Society of the Sacred Heart United States Canada Province Inc$1,0001n/a
Berkshire Choral International Inc$1,00010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($147k), not named here.

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.

Texas Instruments FoundationTX14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Katherine Butler Johnson Foundation

How much does Katherine Butler Johnson Foundation give?
Katherine Butler Johnson Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $9,676 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Katherine Butler Johnson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (63%), Arts & Culture (12%), Human Services (7%).
Who are Katherine Butler Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Spectacular Follies ($25k), Diocese of Dallas ($17k), North Texas Food Bank ($9k).
Does Katherine Butler Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Katherine Butler Johnson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Katherine Butler Johnson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Texas Instruments Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Katherine Butler Johnson Foundation based?
Katherine Butler Johnson Foundation is based in TX.

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 21 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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