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The Agar-Johnson Family 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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
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 FY20172025.

Education$190kArts & Culture$45kHealth$36kInternational$20kFood & Nutrition$8kCivil Rights$5kEnvironment$5kCommunity Improvement$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$153k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNG PEOPOLES CHORUS OF NYC$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM YOUTH CHORUS$5,000
DONATE LIFE AMERICA$1,000
ANGEL CITY SPORTS$1,000
YALE GLEE CLUB$1,000
YALE SPIZZWINKS() ALUMNI ASSOC$1,000
YALE ALUMNI CHORUS FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANGEL CITY SPORTS: $1k → 14%ANGEL CITY SPORTS: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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IL
NY
CT
CA
KS
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TX

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of The Agar-Johnson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Agar-Johnson Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.8% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$164k · 8 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$164k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+20%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCivil RightsEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionInternationalOther

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

  • BS
    BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +28%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $12k · revenue +38%
  • RI
    REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • YA
    YALE ALUMNI FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • LT
    LUNG TRANSPLANT PROJECT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -86%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k

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.

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Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
2
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
3
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

4
Uhiwai O Haleakala

The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…

Environment
5
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
6
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

7
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Acec Research Institute

Acec research institute serve as the leading source of knowledge and thought leadership for creating a more sustainable, safe, secure, and technically advanced built environment. identify, fund, and provide industry wide research forecasts…

Unclassified
10
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Angel City Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 23 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YALE UNIVERSITY — $60,160 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYYALE ALUMNI FUND — $25,000 · OtherYALE ALUMNI FUNDYOUNG PEOPOLES CHORUS OF NYC — $10,000 · OtherYOUNG PEOPOLES CHORUS OF NYCLUNG TRANSPLANT PROJECT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherLUNG TRANSPLANT PROJECT FOUNDATIONTHE TRUSTEES OF COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF COLOMBIA UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $8,000 · Other+6 more — $18,000 · Other+6 moreBRENTWOOD SCHOOL — $75,010 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOLUCLA FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus — $5,000 · Arts & CultureYale Alumni Chorus Foundation Inc — $3,500 · Arts & CulturePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyTREVOR PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $5,000 · Civil RightsFeeding America — $8,000 · Food & NutritionHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 · International
Other$151,160Education$105,010Arts & Culture$20,500Philanthropy$15,000Civil Rights$10,000Food & Nutrition$8,000International$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL — $75,010 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLUNG TRANSPLANT PROJECT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFeeding America — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale Alumni Chorus Foundation Inc — $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAngel City Alliance — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Agar-Johnson Family 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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