· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| THE NEW SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| INSPIRE ACCESS INC | $25,000 |
| THE NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ATHLETES FOR HOPE | $10,000 |
| SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| TAIL WAGS & BOOK BAGS | $5,000 |
| INNISBROOK ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| BISHOP WALKER SCHOOL | $500 |
| THE MIDDLEBURG LIBRARY | $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 (FY17–17, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- TNThe New School3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +1%
- TVTHEIR VOICE RESCUE2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +5%
- TWTAIL WAGS & BOOK BAGS3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SSSTREET SOCCER USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +266%
- GGGlobal Good Fundone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +12%
- HHHALCYON HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +82%
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 mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Through all of its programs, richmond ballet strives to expand access to dance for the benefit of the entire community. at the heart of the organization's mission, to awaken, uplift, and unite human spirits, is the conviction that the…
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
The baltimore symphony orchestra's (bso) mission is to promote, organize, manage and maintain a symphony orchestra for the city of baltimore and the state of maryland and to hold, sponsor, and present musical concerts by the baltimore…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trust for the National Mall and the most unlike its peers is Tail Wags & Book Bags. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 48 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 JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds STREET SOCCER USA INC ↗
- Who funds THEIR VOICE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Global Good Fund ↗
- Who funds HALCYON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE ACCESS ↗
- Who funds TAIL WAGS & BOOK BAGS ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON BALLET ↗
- Who funds ATHLETES FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Washington Shakespeare Company of Arlington County Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE RECREATION WITH LIST COMMITTEE OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds CLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG ↗
- Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds INNISBROOK ASSOCIATE SCHOLARSHIP FUND I ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
- Who funds USA HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
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: 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
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 Sheila C Johnson Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Centre for Women Inc — 6% 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.