How much did LESTER & FRANCES JOHNSON FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of LESTER & FRANCES JOHNSON FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

firedanescholarship admin

2019

—

2020

food bank

2021

food bank

2022

food bankanimal rescue

2023

radiowomen crisisfood bankanimal rescue

2024

fosterradiowomen crisisanimal rescuefood bank

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $62k
$10k–50k10 grants · $165k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY$60,000
TIMOTHY'S MINISTRY$40,000
GLEN-ED PANTRY$20,000
HEALTH BY ALL MEANS$15,000
EASTERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$15,000
TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE$15,000
COURAGE CONNECTION$15,000
MUNCIE CRIME STOPPERS$15,000
GIO'S GARDEN$10,000
WAYFORWARD FOOD PANTRY$10,000
FOSTER & ADOPTIVE CARE COALITION$10,000
EVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER$8,000
SAFE CONNECTIONS$5,000
ST LOUIS CRISIS CENTER$5,000
WORLD BIRD SANCTUARY$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $516k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 38% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.4M · 32 repeat orgs$265k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%

+35%

Still filing today

44%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

TR
THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY
8× · 2017–2024 · $660k · revenue +153%
TM
TIMOTHY'S MINISTRY
8× · 2017–2024 · $290k · revenue +30%
GP
GLEN-ED PANTRY
3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +142%

Funded once

FR
FRAXA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +32%
SO
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - ILLINOIS
one grant, 2017 · $20k
SL
SAINT LOUIS AREA FOOD PANTRY
one grant, 2020 · $15k

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

04Your field

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.

Petconnect Rescue Inc

Petconnect rescue is a foster-based animal welfare organization dedicated to saving at-risk dogs and cats, providing them with high quality care, and adopting them to loving homes. we are committed to ensuring a highly positive rescue…

Animals

Great River Rescue

Operation of an animal shelter for unwanted and abandoned animals, community education to encourage humane treatment and responsible ownership

Animals

Spay-Neuter Assistance Program Inc

SNAP prevents the suffering and death of companion animals and enriches the human animal bond.

Animals

Danbury Animal Welfare Society

Dedicated to improving the lives of animals in its community and beyond. daws provides rescue,shelter and care to cats & dogs in need and offers adoption counseling

Animals

Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland

The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.

Animals

Western Carolina Rescue

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter

Humane Animal Partners

Sheltering homeless animals, facilitating adoption, providing low-cost spay/neuter services, and foster care for dogs and cats.

Animals

The Wildcat Sanctuary

Provide sanctuary to wild cats in need and inspire change to end the captive wildlife crisis.

Animals

Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare.

Animals

Animal Friends Rescue Project

Dedicated to finding life-long loving homes for stray, abandoned and abused animals. The Organization concentrates on networking with other welfare agencies in the county and state to provide a safety net for animals with the least chance…

Human Services

Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals

Chain of Hope Kc

Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The River Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northwest Dane Senior Services Inc. 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 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/29

the rest of the field

2,639/36,497

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.

05the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

21/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,325,000Food & Nutrition$660,000Human Services$516,000Animals$80,000Housing & Shelter$55,500Education$30,000Health$25,000Youth Development$20,500

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.

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.

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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 organisation LESTER & FRANCES JOHNSON FOUNDATION INC 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TIMOTHY'S MINISTRY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~18 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 262658263 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TIMOTHY'S MINISTRY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 18 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Lester & Frances Johnson Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lester & Frances Johnson Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LESTER & FRANCES JOHNSON FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lester & Frances Johnson Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

LESTER & FRANCES JOHNSON FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lester & Frances Johnson Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph