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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +35%
- CFCITIZENS FOR A BETTER FLATHEAD5× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +425%
- WCWildlife Conservation Society5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- MCMILL CREEK ALLIANCEone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
- TCTHE CINCINNATI ZOOone grant, 2020 · $2k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone 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.
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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
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…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
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.
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.
To guarantee all americans quality places to hunt and fish.
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…
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.
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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR A BETTER FLATHEAD ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EGAN SLOUGH COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CRESTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds URBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RAPTOR INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURES IN TRUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds RUAH WOODS ↗
- Who funds MILL CREEK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds Lloyd Library & Museum ↗
- Who funds PALADIN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROMISE KEEPERS ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS 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: 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.
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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