Massachusetts · Private foundation
Ted & Ruth Johnson Family 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.
- $83k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Ted & Ruth Johnson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $83k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $83k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $78k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $73k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $80k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $97k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $93k | 14% |
| FY2017 | 33 | $102k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Hill Country Day School | $150,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $25,500 | 8 | 0% |
| George School | $23,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $17,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths Inc | $15,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $14,500 | 4 | 0% |
| International OCD Foundation Inc | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $13,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Greenpeace Fund Inc | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($117k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ted & Ruth Johnson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
Compare Ted & Ruth Johnson Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Ted & Ruth Johnson Family Foundation
- How much does Ted & Ruth Johnson Family Foundation give?
- Ted & Ruth Johnson Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $83,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ted & Ruth Johnson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Environment (20%), Health (12%).
- Who are Ted & Ruth Johnson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rocky Hill Country Day School ($150k), Cornell University ($30k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($26k).
- Does Ted & Ruth Johnson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ted & Ruth Johnson Family 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 Ted & Ruth Johnson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ted & Ruth Johnson Family Foundation based?
- Ted & Ruth Johnson Family Foundation is based in MA.
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