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Peggy and Eric 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.

$100k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2025
$24,200
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$3.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Peggy and Eric Johnson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Science & TechHealthHuman ServicesEducation
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 arriving4$100k100%
FY20222$60k100%
FY20213$1.4M67%
FY20205$325kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.4MScience & Tech$1.3MHealth$279kSocial Science$50kCrime & Legal$21kPhilanthropy$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Peggy and Eric Johnson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lowell Observatory$1,260,00016%
Karen Wyckoff Rein in Sarcoma$100,000111%
Harvey Mudd College$100,00010%
Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation$100,00012%
Bishop School$97,2501n/a
Uc San Diego Foundation$52,50020%
Pioneers Healthcare Foundation Inc$50,000141%
Copenhagen Consensus Center USA Inc$50,0001n/a
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College$25,00010%
The James Blake Foundation Inc$24,2001n/a
Youth Law Center$21,00010%
The Overlake School$10,00010%
American Brain Foundation$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Peggy and Eric Johnson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLowell Observatory: $1,260,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetKaren Wyckoff Rein in Sarcoma: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHarvey Mudd College: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAspen Valley Hospital Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUc San Diego Foundation: $52,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPioneers Healthcare Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetPresident-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Law Center: $21,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Overlake School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Brain Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 10.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Peggy and Eric Johnson Foundation

How much does Peggy and Eric Johnson Foundation give?
Peggy and Eric Johnson Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $100,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Peggy and Eric Johnson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Science & Tech (25%), Health (6%).
Who are Peggy and Eric Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lowell Observatory ($1.3M), Karen Wyckoff Rein in Sarcoma ($100k), Harvey Mudd College ($100k).
Does Peggy and Eric Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Peggy and Eric Johnson 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 Peggy and Eric Johnson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Peggy and Eric Johnson Foundation based?
Peggy and Eric Johnson Foundation is based in DE.

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 15 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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