· Private foundation
Mark Chapin Johnson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF HOPE | $55,000 |
| CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY | $53,194 |
| PACIFIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $40,000 |
| SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $30,500 |
| CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | $28,000 |
| BARCLAY THEATER | $20,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $12,000 |
| WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL | $11,950 |
| MARINE MILITARY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| LANDMARK COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY MUSEM OF ART | $1,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL ORANGE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $426k · revenue +62%
- SCSegerstrom Center for the Arts8× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +57%
- HIHOPE IGNITES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA6× · 2017–2022 · $147k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $15k
- TWTHE WEBB SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +16%
- FOFRIENDS OF CASA BERNABEone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +13%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
We provide an unparalleled arts and acdademic education in a creative, challenging and nurturing environment to a diverse student body passionate about the arts, preparing them to reach their highest potential.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MARINE MILITARY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLINDNESS ↗
- Who funds IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE OPERATING CO ↗
- Who funds JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WEBB SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASA BERNABE ↗
- Who funds PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Marconi Foundation For Kids ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CO-LABORERS WITH CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S POLICY RESEARCH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · Argyros Family Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Lyons Share Foundation · The William Gillespie Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Samueli Foundation · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mark Chapin Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark Chapin Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Landmark College Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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