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Robert J & Helen F Johnston Trust

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.

$89k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$88,996
Largest grant, FY2024
$88,996
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Robert J & Helen F Johnston Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving1$89k0%
FY202312$76k67%
FY20229$76k78%
FY20216$74kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$314k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southern Illinois University Alumni Association$17,25015%
Olivet Nazarene University$9,00010%
Illinois Wesleyan University$8,25020%
University of Washington$6,0001n/a
Cedarville University$4,50010%
Bradley University$4,50010%
North Central College$3,75010%
University of Dayton$2,50010%
Loras College$2,50010%
Trustees of Purdue University$1,5001n/a
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All grantees of Robert J & Helen F Johnston Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southern Illinois University Alumni Association$17,25015%
Olivet Nazarene University$9,00010%
Illinois Wesleyan University$8,25020%
University of Washington$6,0001n/a
Cedarville University$4,50010%
Bradley University$4,50010%
North Central College$3,75010%
University of Dayton$2,50010%
Loras College$2,50010%
Trustees of Purdue University$1,5001n/a
Belmont University$1,00010%
Indiana Institute of Technology Inc$1,00010%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($252k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert J & Helen F Johnston Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthern Illinois University Alumni Association: $17,250 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetOlivet Nazarene University: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Wesleyan University: $8,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBradley University: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Central College: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoras College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Institute of Technology Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Robert J & Helen F Johnston Trust

How much does Robert J & Helen F Johnston Trust give?
Robert J & Helen F Johnston Trust reported 1 grants totaling $88,996 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Robert J & Helen F Johnston Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Robert J & Helen F Johnston Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Southern Illinois University Alumni Association ($17k), Olivet Nazarene University ($9k), Illinois Wesleyan University ($8k).
Does Robert J & Helen F Johnston Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert J & Helen F Johnston Trust 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 Robert J & Helen F Johnston Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Robert J & Helen F Johnston Trust based?
Robert J & Helen F Johnston Trust is based in IN.

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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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