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Owen M 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.

$81k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
43
Grants FY2025
41
Organizations funded FY2024
15%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
34 to 48
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
13
Total assets, FY2025
$307k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Owen M Johnson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyPublic 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving40$47k13%
FY202441$51k15%
FY202338$48k11%
FY202234$45k3%
FY202148$69kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$150kPhilanthropy$138kArts & Culture$41kHealth$21kSocial Science$21kRecreation & Sports$12kEnvironment$11kScience & Tech$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
IA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 37 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Owen M Johnson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmericans for Oxford Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGettysburg College: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGettysburg Foundation: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Antitrust Institute Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVanderbilt University: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest Folklife: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetArboretum Foundation: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Outdoor Leadership School: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSuburban Hospital Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Trails Association: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRichard Hugo House: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWellesley College: $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSibley Memorial Hospital Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCascade Bicycle Club: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Andrew's-Sewanee School: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Traveling School: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFoxcroft School: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSewanee Community Chest: $1,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Aopa Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Goat Trail Alliance Inc: $1,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Responder Therapy Dogs: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Hun School of Princeton: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Public Radio: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVietnam Veterans of America Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWhite House Historical Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLandon School: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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.

Ibm International FoundationNY15.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About Owen M Johnson Family Foundation

How much does Owen M Johnson Family Foundation give?
Owen M Johnson Family Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $80,835 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 48 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Owen M Johnson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Philanthropy (34%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are Owen M Johnson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Americans for Oxford Inc ($50k), Gettysburg College ($15k), Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc ($12k).
Does Owen M Johnson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Owen M Johnson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Owen M Johnson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ibm International Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Seattle Foundation.
Where is Owen M Johnson Family Foundation based?
Owen M Johnson Family Foundation is based in MD.

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 67 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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