California · Private foundation
Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family 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.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Fuller Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $710k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 62% of the organizations Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $1.6M | 73% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $143k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $130k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $146k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $41k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $45k | 78% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $68k | 70% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $23k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westmont College | $1,500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pasadena Covenant Church Pasadena Ca | $109,250 | 5 | n/a |
| The Jim Browne Foundation | $40,250 | 6 | n/a |
| Kennebec Montessori School | $23,250 | 5 | 1% |
| Paul Carlson Medical Program Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Evangelical Covenant Church | $12,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Citizens League | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Gamble House Conservancy | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Skowhegan Economic Development Corp | $7,500 | 1 | 12% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($408k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Bush Foundation · Propel Nonprofits · Otto Bremer Trust · Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation · Marbrook Foundation · Robins Kaplan Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation with peer funders
About Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation
- How much does Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation give?
- Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $1,558,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Philanthropy (20%), Religion (5%).
- Who are Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Westmont College ($1.5M), Pasadena Covenant Church Pasadena Ca ($109k), The Jim Browne Foundation ($40k).
- Does Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation 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 Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Mortenson Family Foundation.
- Where is Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation based?
- Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family Foundation is based in CA.
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