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The Floyd C Johnson and Flo Singer Johnson Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$220k
Granted FY2020
4
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$112k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172020.

Animals$915kEnvironment$734kYouth Development$210kArts & Culture$140kScience & Tech$41kHousing & Shelter$20kHuman Services$8kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2020 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $162k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONSERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE GULF COAST$112,405
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$50,000
SATCHEL'S LAST RESORT$43,000
SUNCOAST SCIENCE CENTER$15,000
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 (FY17–18, $277k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $225k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $52k → 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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 9 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +146% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$2.0M
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+146%
+31%

Still filing today

56%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

  • BW
    Big Waters Land Trust Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $733k · revenue +354%
  • SL
    SATCHELS LAST RESORT
    4× · 2017–2020 · $638k · revenue +370%
  • SG
    Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $277k · revenue +146%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CASA DE ASILO
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • BP
    BJ PALMER HOUSE
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
  • ER
    EAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -38%

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
The Players Inc

The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.

Arts & Culture
2
Sarasota Performing Arts Center Foundation Inc

To create and sustain a vibrant performing arts center, advance education, and enrich communities by inspiring minds through the power of the arts.

3
Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc

The mission of the Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa a/k/a ZooTampa at Lowry Park, is to rescue, rehabilitate and care for animals.(Expanded mission on Schedule O)ZooTampa creates exceptional personalized experiences that connect…

Animals
4
The Fine Arts Society of Sarasota Inc

To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.

5
Florida Education and Arts Trust
Philanthropy
6
Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc

The Mission of the Sarasota Ballet of Florida is to enrich lives, captivate emotions and strengthen the community through the art of dance.

Arts & Culture
7
Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences Inc

To provide a small, intimate environment of academic excellence and enrichment, utilizing community partnerships and traditional and innovative teaching methods.

Education
8
Florida Animal Protection Foundation
Animals
9
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
10
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
11
Sarasota Academy of the Arts Inc

The mission of sarasota academy of the arts (saa) is to provide a motivating, challenging, and creative learning climate with a safe, caring, family atmosphere. saa will provide students interested in visual and performing arts with…

Education
12
Realtor Association of Sarasota and Manatee Inc

The mission of the realtor association of sarasota and manatee is to advance members' professionalism through delivery of education and resources, and to advocate for real estate in the communities served.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Waters Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Association of Florida Teaching Artists. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Big Waters Land Trust Inc — $733,405 · EnvironmentBig Waters Land Trust Inc+2 more — $1,500 · EnvironmentSATCHELS LAST RESORT — $638,000 · AnimalsSATCHELS LAST RESORTBOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $209,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CL…SUNCOAST SCIENCE CENTER — $40,525 · OtherSUNCOAST SCIENC…FRIENDS OF CASA DE ASILO — $20,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CASA…+4 more — $16,000 · Other+4 moreSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $276,500 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Gu…Association of Florida Teaching Artists — $135,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $806 · Philanthropy
Environment$734,905Animals$638,000Other$285,525Human Services$276,500Arts & Culture$138,000Education$2,000Philanthropy$806

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBig Waters Land Trust Inc — $733,405 over 3y, 15% of budgetSATCHELS LAST RESORT — $638,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $276,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAssociation of Florida Teaching Artists — $135,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetEAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA SPORTSMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $806 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — $500 over 1y, 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.

The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co 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 Floyd C Johnson and Flo Singer Johnson 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc0% of income from government
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc0% of income from government
  • Florida Studio Theatre Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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

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How do I get to The Floyd C Johnson and Flo Singer Johnson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Floyd C Johnson and Flo Singer Johnson Foundation 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 17 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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