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Stuart M Johnson 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.

$81k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$320kHealth$94kAnimals$35kReligion$20kArts & Culture$18kInternational$10kEnvironment$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YALE UNIVERSITY$55,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$6,200
AMHERST COLLEGE$5,000
PORT JEWISH CENTER$5,000
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE$5,000
THE CHEMOTHERAPY FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY MAINSTREAMING ASSOCIATES INC: $1k → 6%COMMUNITY MAINSTREAMING ASSOCIATES INC: $500 → 6%COMMUNITY MAINSTREAMING ASSOCIATES INC: $500 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$487k · 12 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$487k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+66%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +18%
  • AC
    AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +28%
  • TP
    THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • LO
    LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +116%
  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +55%
  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +176%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
5
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
8
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
12
Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baxters Pond Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YALE UNIVERSITY — $295,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYTHE CHEMOTHERAPY FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · OtherTHE CHEMOTHERAPY FOUNDATION INCMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $33,200 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERPORT JEWISH CENTER — $20,000 · Other+3 more — $6,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $35,000 · AnimalsAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $15,000 · EducationWellesley College — $7,500 · EducationJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL — $2,000 · EducationTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLANDMARK ON MAIN STREET INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 · InternationalThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $2,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,000 · HealthBAXTERS POND FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Environment
Other$409,200Animals$35,000Education$24,500Arts & Culture$18,000International$10,000Health$4,500Environment$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CHEMOTHERAPY FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLANDMARK ON MAIN STREET INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBAXTERS POND FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Mainstreaming Associates Inc — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF WESTCHESTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Peter & Jeri Dejana FoundationNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Stuart M Johnson 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Amherst College Trustees2% of income from government
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Stuart M Johnson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Stuart M Johnson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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