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Robert S and Vivian I Johnson Found

$100
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$100
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Crime & Legal$79kReligion$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$24kEducation$6kScience & Tech$5kHealth$3kYouth Development$2kCommunity Improvement$260Other$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LATTA HIGH SCHOOL$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 29%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%MAIN STREET MISSIONS: $43k → 30%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $3k → 30%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

3%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5k · 5 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
19

Total granted

$5k
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+46%

Still filing today

20%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +28%
  • MS
    MAIN STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    4× · 2017–2020 · $2k
  • LC
    LATTA CHURCH OF GOD
    3× · 2017–2019 · $300

Funded once

  • PD
    PEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
    one grant, 2021 · $79k · revenue +8%
  • MS
    MAIN STREET MISSIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $43k · revenue +143%
  • DC
    DILLON COUNTY LONG TERM RECOVERY GR
    one grant, 2020 · $19k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Pine Ridge Fire Department

It is the mission of the Pine Ridge Fire Department to provide the highest level of care and service to the citizens of Berkeley County. The primary focus of the fire department is on fire suppression. However, the fire department will be…

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines Inc

Building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
3
Girl Scout Council of Colonial Coast

Girl scout council of colonial coast, a united way agency, serves girls in grades k-12, in southeastern virginia and northeastern north carolina. our mission is to build girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a…

Youth Development
4
The Agricultural Society of Sc
Philanthropy
5
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
6
Girl Scouts of South Carolina - Mountains to Midlands Inc

The mission of the girl scouts is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
7
Food for Little Rascals Inc

Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.

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8
South Carolina Ems Foundation
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9
Mcleod Medical Center Dillon

Organization is part of the mcleod health system. the mission of mcleod health is to improve the overall health and well being of people living within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providing excellence in healthcare.

Health
10
Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida Inc

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. Girl Scouting is girl led, where girls work together and learn collaboratively and experientially. Girls work under the guidance, coaching…

Youth Development
11
Palmetto Citizens Against Sexual Assault

Provides victims of sexual assault, attempted sexual assault and incest with immediate supportive care and information about medical legal proceedings, crisis counseling, and educational programs.

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12
Mcleod Health

To operate a health care system providing medical excellence to the eastern region of south carolina and the extreme southeastern region of north carolina.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches; the most unlike its peers is Floydale Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $78,685 · OtherPEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULTDILLON COUNTY LONG TERM RECOVERY GR: $18,844 · OtherDILLON COUNTY LONG TERM RECOVERY GRLATTA HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS: $5,000 · Other+14 more: $4,640 · OtherMAIN STREET MISSIONS: $42,510 · Human ServicesMAIN STREET MISSIONSAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its …HEALTHY LEARNERS: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE LATTA SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA: $2,350 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 · HealthFLOYDALE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $100 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$107,169Human Services$49,510Education$5,000Youth Development$2,350Health$500Public Safety & Disaster$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $78,685 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE LATTA SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA: $2,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLOYDALE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds PEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds THE LATTA SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FLOYDALE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert S and Vivian I Johnson Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert S and Vivian I Johnson Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Robert S and Vivian I Johnson Found 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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