· Private foundation
The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PZPUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY3× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +57%
Care and Share Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +15%- PCPUEBLO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY2× · 2017–2018 · $28k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- FCFORT CONCHO HISTORIC LANDMARKone grant, 2020 · $50k
- SASan Angelo Museum of Fine Artsone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -3%
- PLPUEBLO LIBRARY DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The agency is a conservation Center near Pueblo, CO, where land and people can provide unique experiences in education, conservation and recreation that inspire responsible environmental stewardship.
To build a lasting connection to the pikes peak region by preserving and sharing our cultural history. this mission is accomplished through our support of the colorado springs pioneers museum, owned and operated by the city of colorado…
To bring musical artists together to perform concerts for the citizens of the city and county of pueblo.
To support the operations of the colorado springs pioneers museum
The organization is organized to perform functions of or to carryout the purposes of the Pueblo City-County Library District including providing resources for development maintenance and operation of the Pueblo City-County Library District…
Preserving Pueblo firefighter legacy historical legacy from it's inception in 1908.
Historical Society for Ouray County, Colorado Museum, Historical Programs, mining, ranching and indian exhibit and artifacts, archiving historical documents and historical programs for the general public.
The bosque museum is dedicated to protect & preserve bosque county's historic & prehistoric resources for the use, education, enjoyment, & economic benefit of the public it serves.
To support Santa Fe Concert Association, DBA: Performance Santa Fe
To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.
To support pueblo community health center.
Memorialize the development of military aviation; collect, preserve & display aeronautical & space equipment, data & related items of historical interest & provide education & community activities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pueblo Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fowler Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 34 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT CONCHO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SANGRE DE CRISTO HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds TREES PLEASE INC ↗
- Who funds Bessemer Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
- Who funds PUEBLO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SENIOR RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY PUEBLO CO ↗
- Who funds Fowler Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Pueblo Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds PEDCO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Robert Hoag Rawlings Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Garone-Nicksich Foundation · Southern Colorado Community Foundat · The Denver Foundation · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Frank I Lamb Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Bob and Doris Johnston 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.
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.