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Records Johnston Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k107 grants · $304k
- $10k–50k66 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KEYSTONE ADVENTURE SCHOOL AND FARM INC | $600,000 |
| OKLA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $363,334 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART | $260,000 |
| OKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC | $255,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION | $223,334 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS INC | $130,000 |
| HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY | $130,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $127,500 |
| CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND | $125,000 |
| IBLA FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| SPECIAL CARE INC | $110,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $105,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY | $100,000 |
| FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $586k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those 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 +11% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
156 repeat relationships — 156 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $882k 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
- KAKeystone Adventure School & Farm Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $700k · revenue +44% · 35% of their budget
- OCOKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM2× · 2023–2024 · $620k · revenue +19%
- IFIBLA FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $240k · revenue +10% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- OSOklahoma State University Foundationone grant, 2023 · $363k · revenue -3%
- UWUnited Way of Central Oklahoma Incone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +1%
- BTBEND THE ARC A JEWISH PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2023 · $200k
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
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.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Red Bucket Equine Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
216 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. 216 of the 244 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Keystone Adventure School & Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds IBLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP OKC PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S FUND ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds THE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds McCalls Chapel School Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUR ARMED FORCES WALT VANBENTHYSEN ↗
- Who funds DeliverFund ↗
- Who funds SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER ↗
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: American Fidelity Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health 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 Records Johnston Family 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.
- George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center Inc — 68% of income from government
- Sunbeam Family Services Inc — 52% of income from government
- World Neighbors Inc — 46% of income from government
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Oklahoma Blood Institute — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- First Americans Museum Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Special Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.
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