How much does Lloyd K Johnson Foundation give?

Lloyd K Johnson Foundation reported 72 grants totaling $2,745,657 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 81 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Lloyd K Johnson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Environment (17%), Arts & Culture (16%).

Who are Lloyd K Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cook County Higher Education ($605k), North House Folk School ($312k), Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center ($275k).

Does Lloyd K Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lloyd K Johnson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Lloyd K Johnson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Northland Foundation, Ordean Foundation.

Where is Lloyd K Johnson Foundation based?

Lloyd K Johnson Foundation is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Lloyd K Johnson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 72
Grants FY2025: 69
Organizations funded FY2024: 28%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,265,000
Organizations funded a year: 53 to 81; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $31M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Lloyd K Johnson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $237k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentEducationYouth 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	72	$2.7M	26%
FY2024	69	$1.3M	28%
FY2023	77	$1.4M	27%
FY2022	81	$1.5M	19%
FY2021	68	$1.1M	26%
FY2020	53	$873k	25%
FY2019	76	$1.1M	46%
FY2018	68	$1.1M	51%

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What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.4MEnvironment$2.1MArts & Culture$2.0MHuman Services$1.3MHealth$850kYouth Development$653kHousing & Shelter$605kCommunity Improvement$591kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cook County Higher Education	$605,000	9	21%
North House Folk School	$312,000	7	3%
Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center	$275,000	7	3%
Sawtooth Mountain Clinic Inc	$253,808	6	1%
One Roof Community Housing	$200,500	6	4%
Churches United in Ministry	$200,000	5	2%
Cook County Community Radio	$187,500	5	5%
Life House Inc	$182,300	7	2%
Men as Peacemakers	$175,000	7	4%
Damiano of Duluth Inc	$175,000	8	2%

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All grantees of Lloyd K Johnson Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cook County Higher Education	$605,000	9	21%
North House Folk School	$312,000	7	3%
Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center	$275,000	7	3%
Sawtooth Mountain Clinic Inc	$253,808	6	1%
One Roof Community Housing	$200,500	6	4%
Churches United in Ministry	$200,000	5	2%
Cook County Community Radio	$187,500	5	5%
Life House Inc	$182,300	7	2%
Men as Peacemakers	$175,000	7	4%
Damiano of Duluth Inc	$175,000	8	2%
Minnesota Land Trust	$142,900	8	0%
Cook County Historical Society	$141,088	6	21%
Grand Marais Playhouse Inc	$123,500	7	18%
Northeast Entrepreneur Fund Inc	$120,000	4	1%
North Shore Health Care Foundation	$120,000	6	10%
Violence Prevention Center	$116,000	4	16%
First Witness Child Advocacy Center	$115,000	5	3%
Boys' Club of Duluth	$115,000	6	1%
Local Initiatives Support Corporation	$115,000	6	0%
The Gunflint Trail Historical Society	$114,000	6	9%
Friends of Finland and Community	$110,300	6	10%
North Shore Health	$107,000	3	n/a
Duluth Art Institute Assoc	$106,500	6	5%
Duluth Playhouse Inc	$105,000	7	1%
Young Women's Christian Association of Duluth	$105,000	6	1%
Mentor North	$105,000	5	5%
Gnd Development Alliance	$100,000	4	16%
Serveminnesota	$95,000	4	0%
Kids Closet of Duluth	$90,000	8	22%
Duluth Area Family YMCA	$85,750	6	0%
Community Action Duluth Inc	$85,000	5	1%
North Shore Area Partners	$85,000	3	4%
Care Partners of Cook County	$80,500	4	8%
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota	$80,000	4	0%
Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community	$79,150	5	1%
Hartley Nature Center	$78,000	5	3%
Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault	$77,000	4	2%
Superior Hiking Trail Association	$75,000	6	2%
American Indian Community Housing Organization	$72,000	4	1%
Chester Bowl Improvement Club	$72,000	4	6%
Conflict Resolution Center	$70,000	5	2%
Divine Konnections Inc	$70,000	2	2%
Northland Foundation	$68,375	5	0%
Great Expectations School	$67,000	5	2%
Great Expectations Foundation	$65,000	3	18%
Duluth Community Garden Program	$65,000	4	19%
Ecolibrium3	$60,000	2	6%
Boreal Community Media	$57,000	3	16%
Minnesota Ballet Inc	$55,500	4	3%
Essentia Health Foundation	$55,000	3	0%
Duluth Library Foundation	$55,000	3	6%
Maji Ya Chai Land Sanctuary	$53,500	2	21%
Twin Ports Choral Project	$52,000	5	n/a
MN Alliance With Youth-Promise Fellows	$50,060	6	n/a
Duluth Superior Symphony Associatio	$50,000	4	1%
Family Freedom Center	$50,000	2	3%
Children's Dental Services Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Second Harvest Northland	$45,000	2	0%
Loaves & Fishes Housing Inc	$45,000	2	52%
Fathers Rise Together Inc Family Rise Together Inc	$45,000	3	4%
Lake Superior Youth Chorus Inc	$45,000	3	14%
Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory Inc	$45,000	3	3%
Two Harbors Area Food Shelf	$41,500	4	12%
Lake Superior Center	$40,000	2	1%
Friends of the Bandshell Park Inc	$40,000	2	33%
Twin Ports Ministry to Seafarers Inc	$40,000	3	n/a
Two Harbors Community Radio	$40,000	2	30%
Armory Arts and Music Center	$38,000	3	4%
Birch Grove Community School	$37,106	4	4%
Friends of the Superior National Forest	$37,000	4	54%
Cooperation Station	$36,000	1	n/a
Old Maple Hill Church	$35,000	1	n/a
Knife River Heritage & Cultural Center	$35,000	3	39%
Cook County Local Energy Project	$33,000	4	n/a
Arrowhead Chorale	$32,000	5	n/a
Animal Allies Humane Society Inc	$32,000	4	1%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$30,300	2	0%
Lyric Opera of the North	$30,000	5	3%
Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs	$30,000	3	1%
Finland Minnesota Historical Society	$29,500	3	n/a
Minnesota Childrens Press	$27,000	2	n/a
Boreal Development	$27,000	2	17%
The Matinee Musicale Inc	$26,300	5	19%
Lighthouse Center for Vital Living	$26,000	1	3%
Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women	$25,000	1	1%
St Louis County Historical Society	$25,000	2	2%
Friends of Sax-Zim Bog	$25,000	2	10%
Rocky Wall Productions	$22,500	4	49%
Neighbor to Neighbor	$20,000	2	18%
We Health Clinic P A	$20,000	1	n/a
Soar Career Solutions	$20,000	1	2%
Vita Nova	$20,000	1	5%
Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness	$20,000	2	0%
Just Kids Dental Inc	$20,000	2	n/a
Center City Housing Corp	$20,000	1	0%
The Hills Youth and Family Services	$20,000	1	0%
Sugarloaf the North Shore Stewardship Association	$19,875	2	3%
North Superior Ski and Running Club	$19,500	2	26%
Duluth Folk School	$18,500	2	10%
Nordic Center	$18,500	2	n/a
Schroeder Area Historical Society	$18,000	2	17%
Duluth Makerspace	$17,000	1	26%
Seeds of Hope Youth Ranch Inc	$16,250	2	14%
Kako Foundation	$15,960	6	n/a
Northwood Children's Home Society Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Miller-Dwan Foundation and Subsidiaries	$15,000	1	0%
Bob Tavani House for Medical Respite	$15,000	1	11%
Duluth Bethel Society	$15,000	1	0%
Minnesota Masonic Children's Clinic for Communication Disorders	$15,000	1	n/a
Union Gospel Mission Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Rise Incorporated	$15,000	3	0%
Propel Nonprofits	$15,000	1	0%
Minnesota Environmental Partnership	$15,000	2	1%
Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans	$15,000	1	0%
Salvation Army	$15,000	1	n/a
North Shore Horizons Inc	$14,000	2	2%
Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency Incorporated	$13,887	3	0%
Duluth Children's Museum Inc	$13,000	3	3%
Lake Superior Community Theatre	$12,500	4	n/a
Givemn	$12,000	1	1%
North Shore Community School	$12,000	1	0%
North Shore Community Rink	$10,000	1	n/a
Lincoln Park Business Group	$10,000	1	23%
Rainbow Health Minnesota	$10,000	1	0%
Choice Unlimited	$10,000	1	0%
Land Access Alliance	$10,000	1	n/a
The Marshall School	$10,000	1	0%
Noatun Community Wooden Boat Works	$10,000	1	n/a
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Veteran Resilience Project Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Go Dog North Shore	$10,000	1	n/a
Homecroft Parents and Educators United	$10,000	1	n/a
St Ann's Home	$10,000	1	0%
Arrowhead Zoological Society	$10,000	1	1%
Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial Inc	$9,860	2	1%
North Shore Music Associaiton	$6,000	2	8%
Harbor Centers Inc	$6,000	2	3%
Vaaj Xauvkaub Foundation Inc	$5,500	2	n/a
University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Assoc	$5,000	2	4%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media	$5,000	1	0%
Companies to Classrooms	$5,000	1	5%
Accessible Space Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Beacons of Hope	$5,000	1	n/a
Northern Expressions Arts Collective	$4,800	4	n/a
Harbor City International School	$4,500	2	0%
Grand Marais Music Collaborative	$4,000	2	n/a
Duluth Chamber Music Festival LLC	$3,500	1	n/a
Finland Children in Nature Group	$3,500	1	4%
Lets Plant Trees	$3,500	1	n/a
Womens Care Center	$3,500	1	2%
Borealis Chamber Artists	$3,500	1	n/a
Jam Concert Series Inc	$3,500	1	n/a
Bridging Hearts Inc	$3,500	1	n/a
Positive Energy for Youth	$3,500	1	1%
Compas Inc	$3,500	1	0%
World Press Institute	$3,500	1	2%
Tofte Historical Society	$3,500	1	n/a
John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon Inc	$3,250	1	n/a
Wildwoods	$3,000	1	1%
Big Time Jazz Orchestra	$2,000	1	n/a
City of Duluth	$2,000	1	n/a
Duluth Fiber Guild	$2,000	1	n/a
Two Harbors Area Arts & Events	$2,000	1	n/a
Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra	$2,000	1	5%
The Friends of the Duluth Public Library	$2,000	1	n/a
College of St Scholastica Inc	$1,960	1	0%
Two Harbors Curling Club Inc	$1,300	1	n/a
Grandmas Garden by the Lake	$1,000	1	n/a
University of Minnesota	$950	1	n/a
Trans Northland	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 83 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.

Lloyd K Johnson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 128 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 128.

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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.

Duluth-Superior Area Community FoundationMN179.3× affinity91 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Northland Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Pachel Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way · Mardag Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Wildey Mitchell Family Foundation · Arrowhead Regional Arts Council · C K Blandin 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 Lloyd K Johnson Foundation

How much does Lloyd K Johnson Foundation give?: Lloyd K Johnson Foundation reported 72 grants totaling $2,745,657 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 81 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lloyd K Johnson Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Environment (17%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are Lloyd K Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cook County Higher Education ($605k), North House Folk School ($312k), Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center ($275k).
Does Lloyd K Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lloyd K Johnson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lloyd K Johnson Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Northland Foundation, Ordean Foundation.
Where is Lloyd K Johnson Foundation based?: Lloyd K Johnson Foundation is based in MN.