· 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.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| FUTSAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| GREEN CARD VOICES | $2,500 |
| KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| SKOWHEGAN MIDDLE SCHOOL | $500 |
| FEAT NETWORK | $500 |
| GENDER JUSTICE | $500 |
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 (FY22–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- KMKENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL5× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +41%
- MSMAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN3× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue +416%
- OSOUR STREETS3× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +521%
Funded once
- PHPasadena High Schoolone grant, 2019 · $15k
- IIndspireone grant, 2018 · $15k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gender Justice and the most unlike its peers is William Carey Heritage Foundation. 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 28 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 67 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 WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE FULLER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Paul Carlson Medical Program Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN ↗
- Who funds OUR STREETS ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds TAKEACTION MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds SEAT OF THE PANTS ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds William Carey Heritage Foundation ↗
- Who funds We Encourage Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN CARD VOICES ↗
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: 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
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 Roy G and Naomi Harmon Johnston Family 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.