· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FILLING IN THE BLANKS | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA | $2,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $2,000 |
| NOVA UKRAINE | $1,000 |
| ENSEMBLE THEATER CO | $1,000 |
| FUTURE 5 | $1,000 |
| UN HCR | $1,000 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| STATE STREET BALLET | $1,000 |
| HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| ORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN | $500 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $500 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL5× · 2018–2025 · $26k · revenue +40%
- TNTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED6× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +19%
- SLST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +130%
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
49 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. 49 of the 115 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.
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION 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 CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Debard Johnson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Debard Johnson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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