· Private foundation
Peter and Colette Johnson Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ESSENTIAL HEALTH VIRINIA REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| WEST MILLBROOK MIDDLE SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB | $4,750 |
| FOUNDATION FOR EDEN PRAIRIE SCHOOLS | $3,500 |
| MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC | $3,000 |
| USA VOLLEYBALL FOUNDATION | $2,250 |
| HOUSTON ARTS ALLIANCE | $2,250 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Peter and Colette Johnson Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- MRMESABI RANGE FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +3%
- WMWest Millbrook Middle School2× · 2024–2025 · $9k · revenue +29%
- FFFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- MFMESABI FIT COALITIONone grant, 2024 · $7k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESone grant, 2024 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
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To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
The purpose of the chcs students' assistance foundation is to provide need-based financial aid to impoverished students' attending cape henry collegiate school. funding for the foundation is dependent upon donations and upon proceeds…
Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.
Support students at the Allegany College of Maryland - Bedford County campus.
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Support nonprofit organizations by managing & distributing charitable gifts
To create and sustain a visionary coalition of businesses and citizens generating investments and funding for innovative programs and initiatives that enrich edcuational opportunities in Mesquite ISD.
Operates exclusively to manage the investment of endowment gifts made for the benefit of supporting the development, training, and competition of elite national, international, and development athletes in skiing and snowboarding.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Summit Foundation and the most unlike its peers is West Millbrook Middle School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 33 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 MESABI RANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Virginia Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds West Millbrook Middle School ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MESABI FIT COALITION ↗
- Who funds Brassfield PTA ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EDEN PRAIRIE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Code Academy ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds USA VOLLEYBALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCO CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Avondale House 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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Peter and Colette Johnson Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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