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Magic Johnson Foundation

The specific purpose of this corporation is to initiate and support programs that help to serve underserved communities and enhance the lives of underprivileged and needy individuals, and to initiate and support charitable programs that further the health and education of the public.

$223k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$155k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$125,000
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$704k
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$140kEducation$125kHealth$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Feed the Children Inc$140,00020%
Delaware State University$125,00010%
Brotherhood Against Drugs$10,0001n/a

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Find your warmest path to Magic 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.

About Magic Johnson Foundation

How much does Magic Johnson Foundation give?
Magic Johnson Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $155,000, out of $222,520 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Magic Johnson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (51%), Education (45%), Health (4%).
Who are Magic Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Feed the Children Inc ($140k), Delaware State University ($125k), Brotherhood Against Drugs ($10k).
Where is Magic Johnson Foundation based?
Magic Johnson Foundation is based in CA.

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 3 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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