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Lloyd K Johnson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
72
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$2.4MEnvironment$2.1MArts & Culture$2.0MHuman Services$1.3MHealth$850kYouth Development$653kHousing & Shelter$605kCommunity Improvement$591kOther$0
02FY2025 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $762k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $642k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAND PORTAGE BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR$1,265,000
SAWTOOTH MOUNTAIN CLINIC$130,000
COOK COUNTY SCHOOLS- ISD 166$100,000
LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE$73,527
COOK COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION$70,000
WTIP COOK COUNTY COMMUNITY RADIO$65,000
VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER$53,000
NATIONAL PARKS OF LAKE SUPERIOR FOU$50,000
DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC$50,000
MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY$50,000
MINNESOTA NORTH COLLEGE$43,174
MENTOR NORTH$40,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING O$40,000
OLD MAPLE HILL CHURCH$35,000
GRAND MARAIS ART COLONY$30,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $50k → 15%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOM: $25k → 15%NORTHWOODS VOLUNTEER CONNECTION: $15k → 9%NORTHWOODS VOLUNTEER CONNECTION: $10k → 9%NORTHWOODS VOLUNTEER CONNECTION: $10k → 9%DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $20k → 15%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $10k → 9%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $10k → 9%VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER: $53k → 9%NORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS: $30k → 8%NORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS: $30k → 8%COOPERATION STATION: $36k → 9%NORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS: $25k → 8%NORTHWOOD CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $15k → 15%VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER: $28k → 9%VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER: $25k → 9%FATHERS RISE TOGETHER: $15k → 15%CARE PARTNERS OF COOK COUNTY: $25k → 9%CARE PARTNERS OF COOK COUNTY: $24k → 9%CARE PARTNERS OF COOK COUNTY: $20k → 9%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $30k → 15%FAMILY RISE TOGETHER: $25k → 15%YWCA DULUTH: $25k → 15%CARE PARTNERS OF COOK COUNTY: $12k → 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOT: $25k → 15%VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER: $10k → 9%YWCA DULUTH: $20k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 15%YWCA DULUTH: $20k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 15%YWCA DULUTH: $15k → 15%YWCA DULUTH: $15k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 15%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $10k → 15%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $10k → 15%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $10k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOT: $25k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOT: $20k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $30k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $30k → 15%FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER: $25k → 15%FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER: $25k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $20k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $20k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $20k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $20k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $20k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $15k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 139 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

139 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 86 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

139
95

Total granted

$11M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+8%

Still filing today

68%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CC
    COOK COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $605k · revenue +76%
  • NH
    NORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2025 · $312k · revenue +73%
  • SM
    SAWTOOTH MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $254k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • SH
    SAFE HAVEN SHELTER &
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $40k

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.

1
Duluth Cross Country Ski Club

Promote health through skiing

Recreation & Sports
2
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
3
Duluth Community School Collaborative

Duluth community school collaborative promotes wellbeing and success for duluth public schools students and families by co-creating, celebrating, and mobilizing for equitable educational experiences.

Education
4
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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5
Lake Street Council

Lake Street Council engages, serves, and advocates for the Lake Street business community in Minneapolis to ensure the vitality and prosperity of the commercial corridor. The Lake Street Council fosters economic vitality and amplifies Lake…

Community Improvement
6
Northern Minnesota Public Television Inc

Lakeland pbs' mission is to educate, entertain, enrich and enlighten our "community" with the programming we produce right here in northern minnesota and the nationally available programming we choose to air on our channels. lakeland pbs'…

Arts & Culture
7
Community Shares of Minnesota

The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…

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8
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
9
Northern Pines Mental Health Center

Providing direct and indirect services in the areas of mental health, developmental disabilites, and substance use to residents of aitkin, cass, crow wing, morrison, todd, and wadena counties.

Health
10
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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11
Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television Corporation

Non-commercial educational television broadcasting.

Arts & Culture
12
Northwest Minnesota Arts Council

Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota. facilitate and encourage the creation and appreciation of the arts.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Shore Horizons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rocky Wall Productions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsRegional Recreation & Herit…Senior Residential CareEarly Childhood and K-12 Sc…Integrated Health SystemRegional Arts & Culture Org…Rural Healthcare ProvidersLabor Union Locals
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%9%<5yr10%9%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr14%23%20–35yr18%25%35–55yr24%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%3%<5yr10%5%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr14%37%20–35yr18%31%35–55yr24%13%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%4/171
the rest of the field
8%
132/1,622

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.

04the grantee network

141 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 141 of the 254 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
135/141
Grantees still filing
95/141
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GRAND PORTAGE BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR — $1,346,000 · OtherGRAND PORTAGE BAND OF LAKE SUPERIORLAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE — $631,483 · OtherLAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE+127 more — $4,988,753 · Other+127 moreCOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY RADIO — $187,500 · Arts & CultureCOOK COUNT…COOK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $141,088 · Arts & CultureCOOK COUNT…Grand Marais Playhouse Inc — $123,500 · Arts & CultureGrand Mara…THE GUNFLINT TRAIL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $114,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GUNFLI…DULUTH ART INSTITUTE ASSOC — $106,500 · Arts & CultureDULUTH ART…DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC — $105,000 · Arts & CultureDULUTH PLA…ZEITGEIST CENTER FOR ARTS AND COMMUNITY — $79,150 · Arts & CultureZEITGEIST …MINNESOTA BALLET INC — $55,500 · Arts & CultureDULUTH SUPERIOR SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIO — $50,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE SUPERIOR YOUTH CHORUS INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE BANDSHELL PARK INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureTWO HARBORS COMMUNITY RADIO — $40,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $98,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesDAMIANO OF…Violence Prevention Center — $116,000 · Human ServicesViolence P…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH — $105,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOME…KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH — $90,000 · Human ServicesKIDS CLOSE…DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA — $85,750 · Human ServicesDULUTH ARE…NORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS — $85,000 · Human ServicesNORTH SHOR…Care Partners of Cook County — $80,500 · Human ServicesCare Partn…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $80,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN S…DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesDIVINE KON…Family Freedom Center — $50,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC — $45,000 · Human Services+8 more — $183,000 · Human Services+8 moreCOOK COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION — $605,000 · Community ImprovementCOOK COUN…LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $115,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INI…Friends of Finland and Community — $110,300 · Community ImprovementFriends o…SERVEMINNESOTA — $95,000 · Community ImprovementSERVEMINN…Two Harbors Area Food Shelf — $41,500 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementWOLF RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER — $275,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA LAND TRUST — $142,900 · EnvironmentHARTLEY NATURE CENTER — $78,000 · EnvironmentDULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM — $65,000 · EnvironmentECOLIBRIUM3 — $60,000 · EnvironmentLAKE SUPERIOR CENTER — $40,000 · Environment+3 more — $54,875 · EnvironmentSAWTOOTH MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC — $253,808 · HealthNorth Shore Health Care Foundation — $120,000 · HealthESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $55,000 · HealthMAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY — $53,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC — $50,000 · HealthLIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING — $26,000 · Health+6 more — $85,000 · HealthNORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL — $312,000 · EducationGREAT EXPECTATIONS SCHOOL — $67,000 · EducationDULUTH LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $55,000 · EducationBIRCH GROVE COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $37,106 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $30,300 · EducationFRIENDS OF SAX-ZIM BOG — $25,000 · Education+3 more — $40,360 · Education
Other$6,966,236Arts & Culture$1,185,238Human Services$1,165,250Community Improvement$976,800Environment$715,775Health$643,308Education$566,766

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOOK COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION — $605,000 over 9y, 21% of budgetNORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL — $312,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetWOLF RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER — $275,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetSAWTOOTH MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC — $253,808 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING — $200,500 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY — $200,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY RADIO — $187,500 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetLIFE HOUSE INC — $182,300 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetMEN AS PEACEMAKERS — $175,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC — $175,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST — $142,900 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCOOK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $141,088 over 6y, 21% of budgetGrand Marais Playhouse Inc — $123,500 over 7y, 18% of budgetNorth Shore Health Care Foundation — $120,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetNORTHEAST ENTREPRENEUR FUND INC — $120,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetViolence Prevention Center — $116,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetBOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH — $115,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetFIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $115,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $115,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GUNFLINT TRAIL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $114,000 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetFriends of Finland and Community — $110,300 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetDULUTH ART INSTITUTE ASSOC — $106,500 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetDULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC — $105,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH — $105,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMENTOR NORTH — $105,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetGND DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE — $100,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetSERVEMINNESOTA — $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH — $90,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetDULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA — $85,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH INC — $85,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS — $85,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCare Partners of Cook County — $80,500 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetZEITGEIST CENTER FOR ARTS AND COMMUNITY — $79,150 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHARTLEY NATURE CENTER — $78,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetPROGRAM FOR AID TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT — $77,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSUPERIOR HIKING TRAIL ASSOCIATION — $75,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCHESTER BOWL IMPROVEMENT CLUB — $72,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION — $72,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDIVINE KONNECTIONS INC — $70,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetConflict Resolution Center — $70,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetNORTHLAND FOUNDATION — $68,375 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT EXPECTATIONS SCHOOL — $67,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetGREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetDULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM — $65,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetECOLIBRIUM3 — $60,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetBOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA — $57,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMINNESOTA BALLET INC — $55,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budget
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 COOK COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WOLF RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SAWTOOTH MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds COOK COUNTY COMMUNITY RADIO ↗
  • Who funds LIFE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEN AS PEACEMAKERS ↗
  • Who funds DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds COOK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Grand Marais Playhouse Inc ↗
  • Who funds North Shore Health Care Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST ENTREPRENEUR FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Violence Prevention Center ↗
  • Who funds BOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH ↗
  • Who funds FIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GUNFLINT TRAIL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Finland and Community ↗
  • Who funds DULUTH ART INSTITUTE ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH ↗
  • Who funds MENTOR NORTH ↗
  • Who funds GND DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH ↗
  • Who funds DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds Care Partners of Cook County ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds ZEITGEIST CENTER FOR ARTS AND COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds HARTLEY NATURE CENTER ↗

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.

Duluth-Superior Area …Northland FoundationOrdean FoundationMinnesota Power Found…Smdc Medical CenterPachel FoundationHead of the Lakes Uni…Mardag FoundationOtto Bremer TrustWildey Mitchell Famil…Arrowhead Regional Ar…C K Blandin Foundation
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

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 Lloyd K 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lloyd K Johnson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lloyd K 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 254 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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