· Private foundation
Sc Johnson Giving Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $214k
- $250k+4 grants · $4.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL SC JOHNSON SCHOOL | $3,030,000 |
| UNITED WAY MATCHING PROGRAMS | $682,082 |
| Individual grant recipient | $518,824 |
| SONS DAUGHTERS PROGRAM | $284,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL MATCHING GRANTS PROGRAM | $214,209 |
| DOLLARS FOR DOERS PROGRAM | $17,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $3k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCORNELL SC JOHNSON SCHOOL6× · 2018–2025 · $31M
- UWUNITED WAY MATCHING PROGRAMS8× · 2018–2025 · $6.0M
- JFJOHNSON FOUNDATION AT WINGSPREAD2× · 2017–2018 · $5.6M
Funded once
- GMGRIFFIN MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSone grant, 2024 · $5.1M
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2022 · $800k · revenue -13%- RCRACINE COUNTY UNITED WAYone grant, 2017 · $756k
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.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
How this is measured
171 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. 171 of the 338 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Racine Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Sentry Insurance Foundation Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · The Chicago Community Trust · Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sc Johnson Giving Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sc Johnson Giving Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 5% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
- The Taft School Corporation: 0% of income from government
- University of Oregon Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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