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The Burdine Johnson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$2.0MEnvironment$1.1MHuman Services$984kHealth$890kEducation$852kPhilanthropy$550kHousing & Shelter$395kYouth Development$310kOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $984k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $700k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF TEXAS$100,000
THE JAMES DICK FOUNDATION$100,000
PRESERVATION TEXAS INC$75,000
COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEX$65,000
LA SOCIEDAD MUTUALISTA DE CUAUHTEMO$60,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$50,000
DRIPPING SPRINGS COMMUNITY LIBRARY$50,000
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS$50,000
AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL T$50,000
AMERICAN SHORT FICITON$40,000
TORCH LIBRARY ARTS$40,000
LEARNING BRIDGE$35,000
HOME CENTER$35,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $527k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BLUE BIRD'S HOPE INC: $20k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $5k → 10%AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $25k → 10%WIMBERLY SENIOR CITIZENS ACTIVITIES: $10k → 10%THE BARNABAS CONNECTION: $10k → 10%WIMBERLY SENIOR CITIZENS ACTIVITIES: $5k → 10%TRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS: $10k → 10%GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $30k → 10%GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $30k → 10%AMALA FOUNDATION: $27k → 10%AMALA FOUNDATION: $27k → 10%GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $25k → 10%AMALA FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%GREATER SAN MARCOS AREA SENIOR ASSO: $35k → 10%GREATER SAN MARCOS AREA SENIORS ASS: $35k → 10%GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $3k → 10%WONDERS AND WORRIES: $10k → 10%MANO AMIGA SM: $25k → 10%WONDERS AND WORRIES: $5k → 10%WONDERS AND WORRIES: $5k → 10%GREATER SAN MARCOS AREA SENIORS ASS: $15k → 10%SAMARITAN CENTER: $65k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $5k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $5k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%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.

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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.4M · 75 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

75 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
57

Total granted

$6.4M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+12%

Still filing today

71%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $495k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • AS
    ASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +60%
  • PT
    PRESERVATION TEXAS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $290k · revenue +226% · 28% of their budget
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $262k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • TH
    THE HISTORIC BRIDGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -100% · 72% of their budget
  • SC
    SAMARITAN CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue +14%

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.

1
Center for Austin Independent Journalism

To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…

Arts & Culture
2
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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3
Texas Association of Museums

The Texas Association of Museums strengthens the Texas museum community through collaborations, connections, professional development, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
4
Texas Cultural Trust Council

Public arts funding

Philanthropy
5
Texas Society of Architects

Texas Society of Architects is the voice for Texas architecture, supporting the creation of safe, beautiful, sustainable environments.

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6
Barton Springs Conservancy

Barton Springs Conservancy honors, preserves, and enhances the experience of Barton Springs for everyone through education and park improvements.

Recreation & Sports
7
Texas Water Foundation

Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…

Environment
8
HousingWorks Austin

To provide research, education and advocacy related to affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
9
Austin Public Library Friends Foundation

Support and strengthen austin public libraries

Education
10
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
11
Texas Government Accountability Foundation Inc

To foster transparency and uphold ethical standards across all levels of government in texas and empower citizens to hold their government accountable.

Public Benefit
12
Texas Gun Sense

Texas Gun Sense is a statewide nonprofit and nonpartisan organization advocating to prevent gun violence and other gun tragedies in Texas through education, partnerships, and policy change.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generation Serve and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyArts & Cultural Organizatio…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Mental Health & Recovery Se…Health Systems ImprovementMedical Professional Associ…Affordable Housing Developm…Reproductive Health ServicesChild Welfare & Advocacy Or…Rural Water Supply Cooperat…Family Philanthropic Founda…Animal Rescue and WelfareYouth Development & Communi…Texas Policy Advocacy Organ…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%5%<5yr15%18%5–10yr17%15%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr11%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%3%<5yr15%8%5–10yr17%14%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr14%41%35–55yr11%9%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/110
the rest of the field
13%
1,286/10,074

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

99 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. 99 of the 153 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/99
Grantees still filing
65/99
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF TEXAS — $500,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF TEXASTHE JAMES DICK FOUNDATION FOR THE P — $400,000 · OtherTHE JAMES DICK FOUNDATION FOR THE PASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION — $400,000 · OtherASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPRESERVATION TEXAS INC — $289,500 · OtherPRESERVATION TEXAS INCTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY — $240,000 · OtherAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $175,000 · Other+81 more — $2,375,178 · Other+81 moreCENTRO CULTURAL HISPANO DE SAN MARCOS — $184,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRO CULTUR…AMERICAN SHORT FICTION INC — $159,789 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SHOR…THE HISTORIC BRIDGE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HISTORIC …James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts — $100,000 · Arts & CultureJames Dick Fo…INDIGENOUS CULTURES INSTITUTE — $67,000 · Arts & CultureINDIGENOUS CU…TORCH LITERARY ARTS — $65,000 · Arts & CultureTORCH LITERAR…AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MILL — $40,000 · Arts & CultureZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $173,000 · Arts & Culture+9 moreCOMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $115,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY AC…GENAUSTIN — $87,500 · Human ServicesGENAUSTINGreater San Marcos Area Senior Asso — $85,000 · Human ServicesGreater San …FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION — $82,500 · Human ServicesFOSTER ANGEL…HAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER — $80,000 · Human ServicesHAYS-CALDWEL…MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesMARBRIDGE FO…AMALA FOUNDATION — $69,000 · Human ServicesAMALA FOUNDA…SAMARITAN CENTER INC — $65,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN CE…KIDS WRITE GOOD — $62,500 · Human ServicesKIDS WRITE G…Greater San Marcos Youth Council Inc — $37,000 · Human Services+9 more — $150,000 · Human Services+9 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $262,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIE…TEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $200,000 · EducationTEXAS TRIB…Learning Bridge — $95,000 · EducationLearning B…SEEDLING FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationSEEDLING F…TEXAS INSTITUTE OF LETTERS — $35,000 · EducationCon Mi MADRE — $30,000 · EducationMARTINDALE COMMUNITY LIBRARY — $27,162 · Education+4 more — $48,500 · Education+4 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $250,000 · HealthSOAR ARENA THERAPEUTIC RIDING — $67,000 · HealthOUTSIDERS ANONYMOUS — $40,000 · HealthSOLACE AND SAGE — $20,000 · HealthFORTIS THERAPY CENTER — $15,000 · HealthTHE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT) — $105,000 · EnvironmentHILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY — $75,000 · EnvironmentHill Country Alliance — $70,000 · EnvironmentSave Our Springs Alliance Inc — $30,000 · EnvironmentGUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST — $15,000 · Environment+3 more — $24,000 · EnvironmentAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HOLDSWORTH CENTER — $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$4,679,678Arts & Culture$973,789Human Services$913,500Education$737,662Health$392,000Environment$319,000Philanthropy$220,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPRESERVATION TEXAS INC — $289,500 over 5y, 28% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $262,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRO CULTURAL HISPANO DE SAN MARCOS — $184,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $175,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN SHORT FICTION INC — $159,789 over 5y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $115,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT) — $105,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HISTORIC BRIDGE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetJames Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts — $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCASA of Central Texas Inc — $100,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetLearning Bridge — $95,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetGENAUSTIN — $87,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetGreater San Marcos Area Senior Asso — $85,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION — $82,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER — $80,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY — $75,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSan Marcos Youth Service BureauInc — $75,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetHill Country Alliance — $70,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT — $70,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAMALA FOUNDATION — $69,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetINDIGENOUS CULTURES INSTITUTE — $67,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSOAR ARENA THERAPEUTIC RIDING — $67,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetTORCH LITERARY ARTS — $65,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSAMARITAN CENTER INC — $65,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE AUSTIN CENTER FOR GRIEF AND LOSS — $65,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INC — $63,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKIDS WRITE GOOD — $62,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetWimberley Village Library Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWIMBERLEY ADOPTION GROUP AND RESCUE CORPORATION — $45,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetThe Shumla School Inc — $43,350 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetSEEDLING FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENCE MILL — $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOUTSIDERS ANONYMOUS — $40,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetGreater San Marcos Youth Council Inc — $37,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTEXAS INSTITUTE OF LETTERS — $35,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCon Mi MADRE — $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% 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.

  • Who funds ASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRESERVATION TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO CULTURAL HISPANO DE SAN MARCOS ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SHORT FICTION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds THE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT) ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HISTORIC BRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts ↗
  • Who funds CASA of Central Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds Learning Bridge ↗
  • Who funds GENAUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds Greater San Marcos Area Senior Asso ↗
  • Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds San Marcos Youth Service BureauInc ↗
  • Who funds Hill Country Alliance ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds AMALA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INDIGENOUS CULTURES INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SOAR ARENA THERAPEUTIC RIDING ↗
  • Who funds TORCH LITERARY ARTS ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AUSTIN CENTER FOR GRIEF AND LOSS ↗

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.

Austin Community Foun…St David's FoundationShield-Ayres Foundati…United Way for Greate…Topfer Family Foundat…Alice Kleberg Reynold…The Moody FoundationBetter Business BureauThe Applied Materials…The Webber Family Fou…The Cynthia & George …Carl C Anderson Sr an…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX66.7× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Topfer Family Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable 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 Burdine Johnson 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    36report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Burdine Johnson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Burdine Johnson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 153 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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