· Private foundation
Newton S and Kerry Johnson Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k17 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $12,500 |
| Essex County Community Foundation | $8,700 |
| Pan Mass Challenge Inc | $8,566 |
| Waltham Boys and Girls Club | $7,500 |
| YMCA of Greater Charleston | $5,000 |
| Triangle Inc | $5,000 |
| Public Action for the performing ar | $3,000 |
| Dana Faber Cancer Institute | $2,750 |
| Sacred Heart | $2,500 |
| Middlesex Human Service agency | $2,500 |
| Seal Legacy Foundation | $1,875 |
| PP Givefund | $1,000 |
| The Dion Fund | $1,000 |
| Rally 2 Give | $1,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 78% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $23k · revenue +11%- TITRIANGLE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +47%
- WBWALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- PRPROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +103%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +30%- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +43%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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,…
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.
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…
RACE Cancer Foundation fights cancer through action and prevention. Our running events promote health and wellness in the community, reducing the risk of cancer while raising funds and awareness for organizations dedicated to fighting…
The mission is to cure cystic fibrosis and to provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives.
Children's cancer research fund fuels transformational research to bring better treatments and cures to children with cancer.
Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…
To raise money for adrenal cancer research
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Joe Andruzzi Foundation Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
18 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. 18 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds PROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLING SHEPHERDS OF JESUS CHRIST INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION FOR ARTS AND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds RALLY TO GIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Seal Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Concord Carlisle Football Inc ↗
- Who funds JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of CCHS Men's Soccer Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CAMERON M NEELY FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE INC ↗
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.
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
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 Newton S and Kerry 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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.