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Owen M Johnson Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k41 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$1,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$307k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boone County Community Foundation$30,000
Americans for Oxford Inc$10,000
Gettysburg College$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Dartmouth College$2,500
Harvard Law School Fund$2,500
WETA$2,500
Gettysburg Foundation$2,000
Johns Hopkins Medicine$2,000
American Antitrust Institute$2,000
Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation$1,000
Washington Trails Association$1,000
University of Penn Wharton Fund$1,000
Richard Hugo House$1,000
Harvard University$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Harvard Law School Fund: $3k → 8%Gettysburg College: $3k → 9%Americans for Oxford Inc: $10k → 17%Boone County Community Foundation: $40k → 9%WETA: $3k → 7%Navy Seal Foundation: $2k → 10%Johns Hopkins Medicine: $2k → 19%Dartmouth College: $3k → 10%Harvard Law School Fund: $3k → 8%Gettysburg College: $3k → 9%Americans for Oxford Inc: $10k → 17%Boone County Community Foundation: $40k → 9%WETA: $3k → 7%Johns Hopkins Medicine: $2k → 19%Dartmouth College: $3k → 10%Harvard Law School Fund: $3k → 8%Gettysburg College: $3k → 9%Americans for Oxford Inc: $10k → 17%Boone County Community Foundation: $30k → 9%WETA: $3k → 7%Johns Hopkins Medicine: $2k → 19%Dartmouth College: $3k → 10%Harvard Law School Fund: $3k → 8%Gettysburg College: $3k → 9%Americans for Oxford Inc: $10k → 17%Boone County Community Foundation: $25k → 9%WETA: $2k → 7%Johns Hopkins Medicine: $2k → 19%Gettysburg College: $3k → 9%Americans for Oxford Inc: $10k → 17%WETA: $2k → 7%Jackson Helling: $3k → 8%Johns Hopkins Medicine: $2k → 19%Gettysburg Foundation: $2k → 9%Gettysburg Foundation: $2k → 9%Jackson Helling: $3k → 8%Gettysburg Foundation: $2k → 9%Friends of the Library Potomac: $2k → 8%Gettysburg Foundation: $2k → 9%Gettysburg Foundation: $2k → 9%Kaitlyn Robles Patterson: $3k → 14%Kaitlyn Robles Patterson: $3k → 14%Kaitlyn Robles Patterson: $3k → 14%American Antitrust Institute: $2k → 14%American Antitrust Institute: $2k → 14%American Antitrust Institute: $2k → 14%American Antitrust Institute: $2k → 14%American Antitrust Institute: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$227k · 39 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
20

Total granted

$227k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-1%

Still filing today

72%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +21%
  • GC
    GETTYSBURG COLLEGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +19%
  • GW
    GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
Augustana College

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…

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
12
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union; the most unlike its peers is Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. 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

40 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. 40 of the 67 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
25/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOONE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $135,000 · PhilanthropyBOONE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+3 more: $2,750 · PhilanthropyAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $50,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INCGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationGETTYSBURG COLLEGETrustees of Dartmouth College: $9,500 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth Colle…Vanderbilt University: $6,500 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityWellesley College: $4,750 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $4,000 · Education+5 more: $8,100 · Education+5 moreIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHarvard Law School Fund: $11,000 · OtherHarvard Law School FundJohns Hopkins Medicine: $10,000 · OtherJohns Hopkins MedicineUniversity of Penn Wharton Fund: $5,000 · OtherWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Other+28 more: $46,175 · Other+28 moreGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $11,500 · Arts & CultureGREATER WA…GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGETTYSBURG…NORTHWEST FOLKLIFE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST …RICHARD HUGO HOUSE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureRICHARD HU…NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,750 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $1,250 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $5,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $2,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthTHE AMERICAN ANTITRUST INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Social Science
Philanthropy$137,750Education$97,850Other$103,175Arts & Culture$37,500Environment$11,000Health$11,000Social Science$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOONE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 4y, 7.1% of 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 budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $4,000 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
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 BOONE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN ANTITRUST INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST FOLKLIFE ↗
  • Who funds ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds RICHARD HUGO HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Cascade Bicycle Club ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE TRAVELING SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds Foxcroft School ↗

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 Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…Seattle FoundationRaymond James Charita…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Mightycause Charitabl…The Chicago Community…Shell USA Company Fou…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • The Hun School of Princeton: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 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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