· Private foundation
The Debard Johnson 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| FILLING IN THE BLANKS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $2,000 |
| WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA | $2,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| STATE STREET BALLET | $1,000 |
| ENSEMBLE THEATER CO | $1,000 |
| NOVA UKRAINE | $1,000 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| FUTURE 5 | $1,000 |
| HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| UN HCR | $1,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +50% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 9 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- THTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL5× · 2018–2025 · $26k · revenue +40%
- TNTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED6× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +19%
- BCBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- SBSANTA BARBARA SCHOLARSHIP FDTNone grant, 2024 · $10k
- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury Collegeone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -2%
- SVSUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INCone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -67%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wood River Land Trust Co. 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.
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 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
49 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. 49 of the 115 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 THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FLOURISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Wood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
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: Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · Spur Community Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Thrasher Koffey Foundation · The Morris Family Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Ansonia Foundation Advisory Ac · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc · The Schwedel Foundation · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · The Seelert Foundation Inc · Squier Family 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 Debard Johnson 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
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.