How much did ROY G AND NAOMI HARMON JOHNSTON grant in FY2024?

Education$1.5MArts & Culture$36kPhilanthropy$16kCommunity Improvement$14kHuman Services$9kRecreation & Sports$6kPublic Benefit$5kReligion$1kEnvironment$1kOther$579k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

pasadena

2020

wildlifeminneapolis

2021

covenant churchfuller

2022

—

2023

covenant churchkennebecpasadena

2024

skowhegan

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $44k
$10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$250k+1 grant · $1.5M

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

WESTMONT COLLEGE$1,500,000
SATSUSA$15,000
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL$8,000
SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT$7,500
YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS-UPTOWN$5,500
MAIN STREET$5,000
WILLIAM CAREY HERITAGE FOUNDATION$3,500
PETERSON WATER FOUNDATION$3,000
CENTER STAGE$2,500
GREEN CARD VOICES$2,500
FUTSAL SOCIETY$2,500
KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL$2,000
GENDER JUSTICE$500
SKOWHEGAN MIDDLE SCHOOL$500
FEAT NETWORK$500

02The need

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 (FY22–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$470k · 12 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$470k

$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+50%

Still filing today

25%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

KM
Kennebec Montessori School
5× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +30%
MS
Main Street Skowhegan
3× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue +416%
OS
OUR STREETS MINNEAPOLIS
3× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +39%

Funded once

PH
Pasadena High School
one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -46%
TF
THE FULLER FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -66%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
one grant, 2020 · $15k

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.

MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture

Global Minnesota

Global minnesotas mission is to advance international understanding and engagement. we are committed to serving minnesota from a foundation built on the values of respect, collaboration, nonpartisanship, global competency, inclusion and…

International

United Way of Ne Minnesota

Invest in nonprofits, programs, collaborations that equip, empower and create opportunities for all to thrive.

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Minnesota Center for Environmental

See schedule o. the minnesota center for environmental advocacy is a nonprofit organization that uses law, science and research to protect minnesota's environment, its natural resources and the health of its people.

Environment

Karen Organization of Minnesota

The mission of the karen organization of minnesota is to build on the strengths of refugee and immigrant communities and remove barriers to achieving economic, social, and cultural wellbeing.

Human Services

Witness Inc

Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…

International

Minnesota Humanities Center

To spark positive change by increasing collective understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our histories through stories and experiences.

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Asian Pacific Environmental Network

APEN builds immigrant and refugee power for a just transition with local roots and statewide impact so all people can live, work, learn, play and thrive in a clean and healthy environment.

Environment

Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International

Great Mn Schools

Makes strategic investments in proven and promising schools, providing the expert guidance, funding resources to create a community of great schools.

Education

Minnesota Business Partnership

To maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans.

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Tending the Soil

Tending the soil ("the organization") is an alignment of minnesota organizations led by people of color that organize in working class communities of color. we are the ones who tend the soil to remove the toxins and nourish our communities…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gender Justice and the most unlike its peers is Westmont College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/29

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,949

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.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/26

Grantees still filing

18/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$1,502,000Other$586,000Arts & Culture$35,500Philanthropy$16,000Community Improvement$14,000Human Services$9,000Recreation & Sports$6,000

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.

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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN18.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Propel Nonprofits · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 organisation ROY G AND NAOMI HARMON JOHNSTON 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Pasadena High School.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 953208157 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Pasadena High School, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 23% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston?

Find your warmest path to Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ROY G AND NAOMI HARMON JOHNSTON

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston?

More from the funding graph

ROY G AND NAOMI HARMON JOHNSTON

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston?

More from the funding graph