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Mitchel & Aubrey Johnson Family Foundation at a glance

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Mitchel & Aubrey Johnson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$74k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$169kHuman Services$68kHealth$46kEnvironment$40kReligion$16kArts & Culture$15kYouth Development$14kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUND$10,000
LINCOLN COUNTY FOUNDATION$7,268
ALTO LAKE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,550
LINCOLN COUNTY FOOD BANK$5,500
CRISTO REY FORT WORTH$5,000
HEATHER'S OLD SKOOL VILLAGE$5,000
FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION$5,000
COOK CHILDREN'S$5,000
CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH$5,000
COVER 6 OUTDOORS$5,000
CLOUD COVERED STREETS$5,000
SPENCER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$2,000
THE RUIDOSO RACING FOUNDATION$1,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$1,000
ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $7k → 20%ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME: $6k → 14%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $5k → 20%ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$389k · 20 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
6

Total granted

$389k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+17%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2023 · $108k · revenue +60%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +117%
  • C6
    COVER 6 OUTDOORS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +121% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • MC
    MANUELITO CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • TG
    THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • LL
    LUEKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Christian Home of Pecos

Christain Home

Crime & Legal
2
Four Corners Equine Rescue

Provide shelter for equine (horses, burros and mules). shelter includes care, rehabilitation and adoption services for abused, neglected, abandoned and unwanted equine.

Animals
3
Hendrick Home for Children
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4
Hound Haven of Lone Pine Inc
Animals
5
Christian Co Humane Society Inc

To care for abused and injured animals and place them in good homes.

Animals
6
Lone Star Shih Tzu & Lhasa Apso Rescue

Rehabilitation and rehoming of homeless dogs

Animals
7
C & Ws Rustic Hollow Shelter Inc

Shelter special needs animals in lifetime care. lower number of unwanted animals with spay and neuter clinics. promote humane treatment of all animals. educate with 4 newsletters per year. rehab animals.

Philanthropy
8
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
9
Humane Society of Cherokee County

Rescue, rehab, provide pet adoptions, etc in cherokee county okincluding veterinary care, spay and neuter, vaccinationstreatment boarding and shelter care

Animals
10
Humane Society of Central Illinois

HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.

Animals
11
Lone Star Sanctuary for Animals Inc

Shelter, food and veterniary care provided for animals in a clean shelter environment. this is a no-kill facility. animals are neutered, vaccinated, microchipped prior to being adopted. every effort is made to educate the community about…

Animals
12
Humane Society of Richland Wilkin Co

To improve the qulity of life for companion animals, to place homeless cats & dogs in suitable homes, & to provide programs to reduce the overpopulation and euthanasia of companion animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Family Life Center; the most unlike its peers is Texas Christian University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 30 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $107,973 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $45,520 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATIONHeather's Old Skool Village: $21,500 · EducationHeather's Old Skool VillageALTO LAKES SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $10,600 · EducationALTO LAKES SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC+2 more: $6,700 · EducationCLOUD COVERED STREETS: $40,000 · OtherCLOUD COVERED STREETSSPENCER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $14,500 · OtherSPENCER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING A…PYTHIAN HOME: $10,000 · OtherPYTHIAN HOMEKERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUND: $10,000 · OtherKERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUNDARBORLAWN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $7,500 · OtherARBORLAWN UNITED METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLINCOLN COUNTY FOUNDATION: $7,268 · OtherFIRST TEE OF SIERRA BLANCA: $7,000 · OtherPARKER COUNTY COWBOY CHURCH: $6,500 · OtherCASA: $6,000 · OtherMANUELITO CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME: $6,000 · OtherLINCOLN COUNTY FOOD BANK: $5,500 · Other+4 more: $9,500 · Other+4 moreCOVER 6 OUTDOORS: $42,000 · Public BenefitCOVER 6 OUT…WI Cook Foundation Inc: $23,500 · HealthCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $12,000 · Human ServicesALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $7,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAVES & LINCOLN COUNTIES: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentLINCOLN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYINC: $200 · AnimalsHIGHLAND LAKES SPCA: $100 · Animals
Education$192,293Other$137,268Public Benefit$42,000Health$23,500Human Services$19,500Youth Development$12,000Animals$300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $107,973 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $45,520 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOVER 6 OUTDOORS: $42,000 over 8y, 43% of budgetWI Cook Foundation Inc: $23,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHeather's Old Skool Village: $21,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSPENCER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $14,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAVES & LINCOLN COUNTIES: $12,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALTO LAKES SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $10,600 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKER PAWS: $4,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetRUIDOSO RACING FOUNDATION INC: $1,700 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYINC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLAND LAKES SPCA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COVER 6 OUTDOORS ↗
  • Who funds WI Cook Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Heather's Old Skool Village ↗
  • Who funds SPENCER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHAVES & LINCOLN COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
  • Who funds ALTO LAKES SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKER PAWS ↗
  • Who funds RUIDOSO RACING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FAMILY LIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYINC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLAND LAKES SPCA ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mitchel & Aubrey Johnson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mitchel & Aubrey Johnson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 30 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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