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Sheila C Johnson Foundation Inc

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.

$193k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$110,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$148k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Sheila C Johnson Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$193k36%
FY202310$114k40%
FY20227$115k57%
FY20218$42k38%
FY20205$32k40%
FY201912$104k83%
FY20187$95k57%
FY201717$233kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$388kArts & Culture$181kPhilanthropy$81kRecreation & Sports$76kAnimals$65kYouth Development$51kHealth$42kHuman Services$34kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
CO
VA
MD
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jackie Robinson Foundation Inc$275,00041%
The New School$70,00030%
Street Soccer USA Inc$50,00013%
The Richmond Symphony$50,00011%
Global Good Fund$50,00014%
Their Voice Rescue$50,000210%
Halcyon House$50,00012%
The Centre for Women Inc$30,00012%
Inspire Access$25,00011%
Tail Wags & Book Bags$15,00035%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($102k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sheila C Johnson Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJackie Robinson Foundation Inc: $275,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe New School: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStreet Soccer USA Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetThe Richmond Symphony: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGlobal Good Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTheir Voice Rescue: $50,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHalcyon House: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Centre for Women Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetInspire Access: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTail Wags & Book Bags: $15,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetChicago Youth Symphony Orchestras: $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTrust for the National Mall: $11,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWashington Performing Arts Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York STEM Cell Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAthletes for Hope: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDance Theatre of Harlem Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Recreation With List Committee of Washington DC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBuilding Bridges Across the River Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington Shakespeare Company of Arlington County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetThe Washington Ballet: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCloverleaf Equine Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPoints of Light Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shakespeare Theatre: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hill School Corporation of Middleburg: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiddleburg Community Center Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUSA Hockey Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Music School of the Piedmont Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGpl Polo Club Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC15.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Graham Foundation Inc · Wise Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Sheila C Johnson Foundation Inc

How much does Sheila C Johnson Foundation Inc give?
Sheila C Johnson Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $193,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sheila C Johnson Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Arts & Culture (20%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Sheila C Johnson Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jackie Robinson Foundation Inc ($275k), The New School ($70k), Street Soccer USA Inc ($50k).
Does Sheila C Johnson Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sheila C Johnson Foundation Inc 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 Sheila C Johnson Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Graham Foundation Inc, Wise Foundation.
Where is Sheila C Johnson Foundation Inc based?
Sheila C Johnson Foundation Inc is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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