· Private foundation
Johnson Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k52 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BILLINGS LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB YELLOWSTONE CO | $3,500 |
| FAMILY SERVICES | $2,500 |
| RIVERSTONE HEALTH | $2,000 |
| NAMI | $2,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOUSE | $1,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $1,500 |
| TUMBLEWEED | $1,500 |
| ALBERTA BAIR THEATRE | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| CASA OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY | $1,500 |
| EAGLE MOUNT | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MRMONTANA RESCUE MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +63%
- BCBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +163%
- TRTUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- RMRESCUE MISSION CAPITAL CITYone grant, 2020 · $5k
- RHRiverStone Health Foundationone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -10%
- RMRESUE MISSIONone grant, 2021 · $1k
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 Yellowstone Health Partnership supports the activities of the Yellowstone City-County Health Department dba RiverStone Health.
Provide quality mental health services to residents of park county
Our mission is to develop a strong business climate and vibrant economy by serving the community in a leadership role therapy enhancing the quality of life.
The museum mission is to collect, preserve, research, and interpret the natural history and diverse cultures of the yellowstone valley of montana and the northern plains. we share this legacy through a full range of exhibits and…
To empower people living in the big horn basin of wyoming to enhance health and employment status, overcome obsticales, and end economic hardship.
Yellowstone mountain club public safety and privacy, inc. was incorporated for the purpose of providing full time, year-round public health and safety services for all persons and organizations located on, within, and, in some cases, even…
Providing lifelong sanctuary to non-releasable greater yellowstone ecosystem wildlife while providing a message of education and conservation.
Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.
Provide food for individuals in need
To promote, stimulate, and advance the general welfare and economic development for billings, yellowstone county, and the state of montana.
Billings clinic's mission is quality, compassionate cre for all, with a vision of reimagining health care through connection, service and innovation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Yellowstone County Inc and the most unlike its peers is ZooMontana Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 87 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 MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL K RANCH ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS TRAILNET ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds PROVISION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Billings Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds ZooMontana Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA ↗
- Who funds ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Fair View Foundation · Billings Community Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Johnson 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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