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Cdr Johnson Family Foundation Inc

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Philanthropy$6.0MEducation$1.3MHealth$758kHuman Services$355kAnimals$210kInternational$203kEmployment$110kYouth Development$95kCivil Rights$70kOther$2.9M
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $295k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $676k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAST FORWARD$100,567
ADDICTION EDUCATION SOCIETY$100,243
Individual grant recipient$100,000
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$75,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SF$50,250
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$50,250
VICTORIA'S VOICE FOUNDATION$50,000
THE BATTERY FOUNDATION$50,000
PRECEDE FOUNDATION$50,000
SUMMER SEARCH$50,000
COMMON SPIRIT HEALTH FOUNDATION$35,694
CENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN SECURITY$30,000
THE GUARDSMEN$25,000
CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO SPCA$25,000
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 (FY22–25, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CITY YOUTH NOW: $40k → 10%VICTORIA'S VOICE FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%COMMON SPIRIT: $50k → 8%CITY YOUTH NOW: $25k → 10%CITY YOUTH NOW: $25k → 10%CITY YOUTH NOW: $25k → 10%CITY YOUTH NOW: $25k → 10%CITY YOUTH NOW: $15k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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CA
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LA
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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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 47 repeat orgs$7.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
70

Total granted

$4.0M
$7.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

70%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • AE
    ADDICTION EDUCATION SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $475k · revenue +369% · 64% of their budget
  • TS
    THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +13%
  • CY
    CITY YOUTH NOW FKA VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO
    4× · 2022–2025 · $155k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • CJ
    CE JOHNSON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5.4M · revenue -96% · 98% of their budget
  • TS
    THE SEMINAR NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +170%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k

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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
7
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health
8
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
9
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
10
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust and the most unlike its peers is Cypress Lawn Heritage Foundation. 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 backsteadyYouth Development ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesYouth Development CentersVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Christian Missionary Organi…Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Affordable Housing Developm…Independent K-12 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%11%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%56%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 56% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/94
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,471

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

86 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. 86 of the 136 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/86
Grantees still filing
49/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CE JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $5,353,752 · PhilanthropyCE JOHNSON FOUNDATIONTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION — $250,000 · Philanthropy+12 more — $405,067 · Philanthropy+12 moreUSC — $250,000 · OtherUSCIndividual grant recipient — $225,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSILICON VALLEY DEFENSE GROUP — $210,000 · OtherSILICON VALLEY DEFENSE GROUPIndividual grant recipient — $150,000 · OtherSUMMER SEARCH — $110,000 · Other+75 more — $2,270,250 · Other+75 moreUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $250,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC — $200,000 · EducationTHE SEMINAR …CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA — $175,000 · EducationCULINARY INS…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $150,000 · EducationPresident an…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF…CURRIKI — $95,000 · EducationCURRIKISAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL — $93,499 · EducationSAN FRANCISC…THE BAY SCHOOL — $70,000 · Education+10 more — $182,000 · Education+10 moreADDICTION EDUCATION SOCIETY INC — $475,243 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $85,000 · HealthNARCONON LOUISIANA NEW LIFE RETREAT — $50,000 · HealthTHE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $35,000 · HealthMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $26,000 · Health+7 more — $87,000 · HealthCITY YOUTH NOW FKA VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $155,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $100,000 · Human ServicesVICTORIA'S VOICE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCOMMON SPIRIT — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $200,000 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC — $10,000 · AnimalsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $100,000 · InternationalCenter for a New American Security Inc — $65,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $16,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Northern California — $10,000 · International+1 more — $2,000 · International
Philanthropy$6,008,819Other$3,215,250Education$1,315,749Health$758,243Human Services$355,000Animals$210,000International$203,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCE JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $5,353,752 over 1y, 98% of budgetADDICTION EDUCATION SOCIETY INC — $475,243 over 5y, 64% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $250,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA — $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YOUTH NOW FKA VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $155,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetFFWD — $150,567 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCURRIKI — $95,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL — $93,499 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC — $80,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe Guardsmen — $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL — $70,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN FRANCISCO — $70,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCenter for a New American Security Inc — $65,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMONSPIRIT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNARCONON LOUISIANA NEW LIFE RETREAT — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOWELL CONSERVATION FUND INC — $40,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEthical Ai Governance Group Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHERWOOD FORESTRY SERVICE — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetState Financial Officers Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIRST SERVE-NM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNeighbors for a Better San Francisco — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUniversalGiving — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCollaborative Support Services Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Life Center Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMINAR — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANTA FE OPERA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Ce Johnson FoundationMarin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…The Stanley S Langend…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Draper FoundationTides FoundationBothin FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…McNabb Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA25× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Ce Johnson Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Draper Foundation · Tides Foundation · Bothin Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · McNabb 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 Cdr Johnson Family Foundation Inc 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 · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 Cdr Johnson Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Cdr Johnson Family Foundation Inc 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 136 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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