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The Dorothy L Johnston Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| DESCANSO GARDENS | $60,000 |
| USC SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ART | $30,000 |
| USC LEVENTHAL SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING | $30,000 |
| HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART | $25,000 |
| FLINTRIDGE PREPARTORY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PARSON'S NOSE PRODUCTIONS | $15,000 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER SGV | $10,000 |
| LOREN L ZACHARY SCTY FOR THE PREF ARTS | $10,000 |
| THE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDERS | $1,000 |
| FUND FOR WILD NATURE | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR CRAFT | $370 |
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 (FY18–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- FPFLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $529k · revenue +42%
- LALOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $480k · revenue +14%
- TCTHE CHANDLER SCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $252k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- UGUSC GOULD INTER HUMAN RIGHT CLINICone grant, 2023 · $50k
- UKUSC KARL SWAIDAN ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIone grant, 2023 · $30k
- GLGLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -50% · 33% of their budget
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 Culver City Symphony Orchestra strives to enlighten and inspire the diverse citizenry of Culver City and the Los Angeles area through the presentation of orchestral music concerts, to present works of American composers, and to…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The pasadena playhouse state theater of california is a non-profit organization whose mission is to enrich people's lives through theater. our programmatic offerings include theatrical productions, community outreach programs, education,…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Deeply rooted in our local beverly hills community and influenced by cultural change, the wallis annenberg center for the performing arts, a public-private partnership with the city of beverly hills, strives to be a site for the…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
Since its inception in 1986, the Symphony has included a work by an American composer and featured world-renowned guest artists on many of its programs.
To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.
Glendale arts generates opportunities throughout greater los angeles to showcase, promote, encourage and engage with the arts.
The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…
To provide leadership, knowledge-building, advocacy and connection to expand the vitality and impact of the orchestra and broader music community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Union Station Homeless Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHANDLER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Parson's Nose Productions ↗
- Who funds LINEAGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Glendale Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Asheville Symphony Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of the WNC Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GLENDALE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds SKEPTIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COEURAGE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds WESTERN JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
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: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Dorothy L Johnston 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.
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.
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