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Robert A Johnston 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.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Environment$70kAnimals$45kReligion$21kEducation$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kCivil Rights$8kYouth Development$7kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$141k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Creston Firefighters Association$10,000
First Priority of America$3,000
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden$3,000
World Wildlife Fund$3,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$2,000
Ohio Environmental Council$2,000
Lloyd Library and Museum$2,000
Citizens for a Better Flathead$1,500
CRU Foundation$1,500
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$1,500
AFA$1,000
COLLISION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Montana Land Reliance$1,000
RUAH WOODS INSTITUTE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Adventures in Truth Ministries: $2k → 12%Citizens for a Better Flathead: $2k → 11%Citizens for a Better Flathead: $2k → 11%Adventures in Truth Ministries: $2k → 12%Adventures in Truth Ministries: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$171k · 30 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
9

Total granted

$171k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

70%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsCivil RightsEducationReligionHuman ServicesOther

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

  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI
    5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +35%
  • CF
    CITIZENS FOR A BETTER FLATHEAD
    5× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +425%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • MC
    MILL CREEK ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • TC
    THE CINCINNATI ZOO
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment
4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
6
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
7
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
8
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
9
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
10
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

To guarantee all americans quality places to hunt and fish.

Animals
11
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
12
Western Environmental Law Center

Public interest law firm - the western environmental law center uses the power of the law to foster thriving, resilient western u.s. lands, waters, wildlife, and communities in the face of a changing climate. we envision a thriving west,…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Liberty Institute and the most unlike its peers is Lloyd Library & Museum. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVolunteer Fire DepartmentsChristian Missionary Organi…Land Conservation Organizat…Government Accountability R…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Animal Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,530

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.

04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RAPTOR INC — $5,000 · OtherRAPTOR INCCRU Foundation — $4,500 · OtherCRU FoundationTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $4,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCRU — $3,500 · OtherCRUCET — $3,500 · OtherCETRUAH WOODS INSTITUTE — $3,000 · OtherAFA — $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $2,700 · OtherTHE NAVIGATORS — $2,250 · OtherGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH — $4,000 · OtherGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACHALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $3,000 · Other+18 more — $24,500 · Other+18 moreEGAN SLOUGH COMMUNITY — $12,500 · EnvironmentEGAN SLOUGH COMMUNITYWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $12,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $8,500 · EnvironmentTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL …EARTHJUSTICE — $3,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEMILL CREEK ALLIANCE — $2,000 · EnvironmentFLATHEAD LAND TRUST — $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $2,000 · EnvironmentZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI — $18,500 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF …Wildlife Conservation Society — $15,500 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation …TROUT UNLIMITED INC — $6,000 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INC+1 more — $1,000 · AnimalsCITIZENS FOR A BETTER FLATHEAD — $17,500 · Human ServicesCITIZENS FO…ADVENTURES IN TRUTH MINISTRIES — $4,000 · Human ServicesADVENTURES …FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC — $13,500 · EducationFIRST PRI…RUAH WOODS — $2,000 · EducationRUAH WOOD…HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $1,500 · EducationHILLSDALE…Activities Beyond the Classroom — $1,000 · EducationActivitie…FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $5,550 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES — $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentCRESTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$62,950Environment$42,000Animals$41,000Human Services$21,500Education$18,000Youth Development$11,050Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI — $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR A BETTER FLATHEAD — $17,500 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC — $13,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEGAN SLOUGH COMMUNITY — $12,500 over 2y, 27% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $5,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES — $5,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRAPTOR INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetADVENTURES IN TRUTH MINISTRIES — $4,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRUAH WOODS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILL CREEK ALLIANCE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLATHEAD LAND TRUST — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALADIN CONSERVANCY INC — $1,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISE KEEPERS — $1,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetActivities Beyond the Classroom — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLATHEAD SPAY AND NEUTER TASK FORCE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Helen Johnston Family FoundationOH22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Helen Johnston Family Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Robert A Johnston 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Robert A Johnston Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert A Johnston Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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