California · Private foundation
Suzanne M Nora Johnson & David G Johnson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $700k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $512k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 38
- FY2022 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 69% of the organizations Suzanne M Nora Johnson & David G Johnson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 33 | $509k | 70% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $554k | 69% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $504k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Voices of a People's History of the United States | $60,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Mayfield Senior School of the Holy Child Jesus | $56,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Technoserve Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pacific Council on International Policy | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Academy of Arts & Sciences | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Challenged Athletes Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Suzanne M Nora Johnson & David G Johnson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
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About Suzanne M Nora Johnson & David G Johnson Foundation
- How much does Suzanne M Nora Johnson & David G Johnson Foundation give?
- Suzanne M Nora Johnson & David G Johnson Foundation reported 42 itemized grants totaling $512,290, out of $699,790 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 38 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
- What does Suzanne M Nora Johnson & David G Johnson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (6%), Arts & Culture (3%), International (1%).
- Who are Suzanne M Nora Johnson & David G Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd ($100k), Council on Foreign Relations Inc ($75k), Voices of a People's History of the United States ($60k).
- Does Suzanne M Nora Johnson & David G Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Suzanne M Nora Johnson & David G Johnson Foundation 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 Suzanne M Nora Johnson & David G Johnson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is Suzanne M Nora Johnson & David G Johnson Foundation based?
- Suzanne M Nora Johnson & David G Johnson Foundation is based in CA.
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