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Newton S and Kerry Johnson Foundation at a glance

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Newton S and Kerry Johnson 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.

$57k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Health$60kPhilanthropy$22kYouth Development$21kHousing & Shelter$8kReligion$8kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$5kEducation$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$417k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pan Mass Challenge Inc$8,500
Big Brothers Big Sisters$7,500
Waltham Boys and Girls Club$6,000
Middlesex Human Services Agency$5,000
Sacred Heart$5,000
The Hometown Heroes$4,234
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$3,500
Essex County Community Foundation$2,750
Dana Faber Cancer Institute$2,500
Fisher House Foundation$2,500
The Dion Fund$2,000
Cancer Alliance CAHHorg$1,900
The Insurance Library$1,023
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Triangle Inc$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY25–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%The Hometown Heroes: $4k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
MO
MD
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$121k · 11 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$121k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+17%

Still filing today

55%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’25
HealthReligionHousing & ShelterEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +11%
  • WB
    WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +110%
  • MH
    MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • PR
    PROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +149%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +47%
  • YO
    YMCA of Greater Charleston
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Ocean State Cancer Crushers
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2
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
3
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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6
Children's Cancer Research Fund

Children's cancer research fund fuels transformational research to bring better treatments and cures to children with cancer.

Philanthropy
7
The Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation

The adenoid cyctic carcinoma research foundation (accrf) supports research into adenoid cystic carcinoma that will accelerate the development of improved therapies and a cure for the disease.

Health
8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
10
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
11
Carson Sarcoma Foundation

Csf raises funds through families/friends touched by ewing's sarcoma. efforts will expand to include raising funds from private individuals, corporations, and online activities. csf partners with a wide array of individuals & institutions…

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12
Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Joe Andruzzi Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rally to Give Foundation Inc. 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

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $31,143 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INCBig Brothers Big Sisters: $20,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big SistersWALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $14,000 · OtherWALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INCTRIANGLE INC: $11,000 · OtherTRIANGLE INCSACRED HEART: $7,500 · OtherSACRED HEARTDana Faber Cancer Institute: $5,250 · OtherYMCA of Greater Charleston: $5,000 · OtherPUBLIC ACTION FOR ARTS AND EDUCATION: $5,000 · Other+16 more: $19,029 · Other+16 moreCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,400 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS …PROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $8,350 · HealthPROGERIA RESEARC…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $7,500 · HealthDana-Farber Canc…JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · Health+2 more: $500 · HealthESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,450 · PhilanthropyESSEX COUNTY …MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC: $12,500 · Housing & ShelterWILLING SHEPHERDS OF JESUS CHRIST INCORPORATED: $5,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $500 · ReligionHOMETOWN HEROES INC: $4,234 · Human ServicesSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $1,875 · Public BenefitFriends of CCHS Men's Soccer Inc: $1,000 · Education
Other$117,922Health$28,750Philanthropy$22,450Housing & Shelter$12,500Religion$5,500Human Services$4,234Public Benefit$1,875Education$1,000

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 budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $31,143 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $8,350 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLING SHEPHERDS OF JESUS CHRIST INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPUBLIC ACTION FOR ARTS AND EDUCATION: $5,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetHOMETOWN HEROES INC: $4,234 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRALLY TO GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $1,875 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Concord Carlisle Football Inc: $1,150 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of CCHS Men's Soccer Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMERON M NEELY FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $250 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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …
Eastern Bank FoundationMA12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Newton S and Kerry Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Newton S and Kerry Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Triangle Inc: 90% of income from government
  • Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Middlesex Human Service Agency Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
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 38 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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