· Private foundation
The Bernard J & Mary T Johnson Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $600k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $284k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION | $158,731 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $65,000 |
| STAND WITH US | $60,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $46,031 |
| ABBEY OF NEW CLAIRVAUX | $43,500 |
| THE KERN PROJECT | $40,000 |
| WASATCH FREESTYLE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| STATE THEATER FOR THE ARTS | $38,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIA | $38,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,000 |
| WESTSIDE WALDORF SCHOOL | $32,000 |
| SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST | $30,730 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $25,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The Bernard J & Mary T Johnson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 49%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2026, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE10× · 2017–2026 · $503k · revenue +57%
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE6× · 2021–2026 · $302k · revenue +19%
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND4× · 2023–2026 · $292k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +10%- SOSISTERS OF THE HOLY NAMES RETIREMENone grant, 2017 · $17k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 90 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds WASATCH FREESTYLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE KERN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHANTI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Tehama Together Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS ↗
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: Sempra Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bernard J & Mary T Johnson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bernard J & Mary T Johnson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Friends of Trees: 100% of income from government
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc: 24% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association: 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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