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The Agar-Johnson Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
YALE ALUMNI CHORUS FOUNDATION$1,000
ANGEL CITY SPORTS$1,000
YALE GLEE CLUB$1,000
YALE SPIZZWINKS() ALUMNI ASSOC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
CT
CA
KS
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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 sends the money.

About 8% of The Agar-Johnson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Agar-Johnson Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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…

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Angel City Alliance; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Agar-Johnson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Agar-Johnson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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