· Private foundation
The Carl J and Margot a Johnson 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $151k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $488k
- $250k+1 grant · $753k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Purdue University | $753,000 |
| Univ of Akron Foundation | $206,644 |
| Multiplication Network Ministries | $155,990 |
| Foundation Scotland | $65,000 |
| Pinky Swear Foundation | $60,282 |
| Yetsena Foundation | $30,327 |
| Stonebriar Comm Church | $30,315 |
| Aid For Women | $30,315 |
| Topeka High School Histrorical Fnd | $25,000 |
| IGM Orphanage Inc | $20,000 |
| Tyler's Light Inc | $15,350 |
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 (FY18–25, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MNMULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +34%
- DCDOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $744k · revenue +16%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2025 · $406k · revenue +30%
Funded once
Purdue Research Foundationone grant, 2022 · $390k · revenue -8%- TPThe Plano Conservancy For Historic Preservation Ione grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +21%
- SBSOUTH BUTLER COMNTY LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $75k
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.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
Support religious and charitable and educational undertakings of First United Methodist Church Dallas
To advance the Kingdom of God with specific focus on human health and well-being, through grants, research and initiatives in support of the mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…
National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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…
Parkland Health Foundation secures substantial philanthropic investments to enable Parkland Healthto advance a national standard of excellence in public healthcare.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 33 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.
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- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AID FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TYLERS LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds The Plano Conservancy For Historic Preservation I ↗
- Who funds Greater Parker Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE IGMORPHANAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Carl J and Margot a Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carl J and Margot a Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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