How much does The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation give?

The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Philanthropy (20%), Animals (11%).

Who are The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fort Concho Foundation ($100k), Pueblo Zoological Society ($85k), Sangre de Cristo Hospice & Palliative Care ($45k).

Does The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robert Hoag Rawlings Foundation, El Pomar Foundation, Garone-Nicksich Foundation.

Where is The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation based?

The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation is based in CO.

The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation

The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$345kPhilanthropy$175kAnimals$92kEnvironment$48kHealth$48kEducation$45kFood & Nutrition$32kPublic Benefit$30kOther$0

02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY	$50,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$412k · 10 repeat orgs$277k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$412k

$277k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

-3%

Still filing today

70%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsArts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationOther

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

PZ
PUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
3× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +59%
Care and Share Inc
3× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +15%
PC
PUEBLO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
2× · 2017–2018 · $28k · revenue +49%

Funded once

FC
FORT CONCHO HISTORIC LANDMARK
one grant, 2020 · $50k
SA
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -3%
PL
PUEBLO LIBRARY DISTRICT
one grant, 2021 · $40k

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.

Nature and Raptor Center of Pueblo

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.

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Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

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…

Arts & Culture

Pueblo Symphony Association Inc

To bring musical artists together to perform concerts for the citizens of the city and county of pueblo.

Arts & Culture

Pioneers Museum Foundation of Colorado Springs

To support the operations of the colorado springs pioneers museum

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Pueblo Library Foundation

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…

Philanthropy

Pueblo Firefighters Historical Society

Preserving Pueblo firefighter legacy historical legacy from it's inception in 1908.

Arts & Culture

Ouray County Historical Society

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.

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Bosque Museum

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.

Arts & Culture

Santa Fe Concert Foundation Dba Performance Santa Fe Foundation

To support Santa Fe Concert Association, DBA: Performance Santa Fe

Arts & Culture

Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado

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.

Philanthropy

Pueblo Primary Care Qalicb

To support pueblo community health center.

Health

Pueblo Historical Aircraft Society

Memorialize the development of military aviation; collect, preserve & display aeronautical & space equipment, data & related items of historical interest & provide education & community activities

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pueblo Community College Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 34 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/15

Grantees still filing

7/15

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$408,300Philanthropy$165,000Animals$86,060Arts & Culture$76,650Human Services$45,000Environment$38,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Education$5,000

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.

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.

Robert Hoag Rawlings FoundationCO26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get 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

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home