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The Frances and Everett Johnston Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Frances and Everett Johnston Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$98k
Granted FY2020
11
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$94k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

96% of The Frances and Everett Johnston Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
4
’18
3
’19
6
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$97kArts & Culture$6kHealth$2kHuman Services$600International$600Education$300Religion$100Other$0
02FY2020 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k10 grants · $4k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $94k
$300
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUN$93,716
THE CRU FOUNDATION$1,300
SOLI DEO GLORIA$500
CANDOR HEALTH$500
HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$300
SALVATION ARMY$300
WORLD VISION$250
PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH$250
PARNERS IN HEALTH$250
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL$250
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARNERS IN HEALTH: $250 → 16%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $100 → 17%THE CRU FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%CRESCENT PROJECT: $100 → 16%EPIPHANY PARISH MUSIC GUILD: $2k → 9%SDG MUSIC FOUNDATION: $800 → 7%THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND: $100 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $200 → 19%BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUN: $94k → 16%THE CRU FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%NORTHWEST GIRL CHOIR: $2k → 9%SOLI DEO GLORIA: $500 → 7%PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $250 → 14%THE CRU FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%NORTHWEST GIRLS CHOIR: $1k → 9%SDG MUSIC FOUNDATION: $300 → 7%PILLARS COMMUMITY HEALTH: $100 → 14%ROBERT CROWN CENTER: $300 → 7%PILLARS: $100 → 14%HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200 → 7%OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL: $250 → 14%HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $300 → 7%SALVATION ARMY: $300 → 14%CANDOR HEALTH: $500 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8k · 5 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$8k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+49%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
HealthInternationalPublic BenefitEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NG
    Northwest Girl Choir
    2× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +5%
  • HH
    HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $500 · revenue +303%
  • PC
    PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH
    2× · 2019–2020 · $350 · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • EP
    EPIPHANY PARISH MUSIC GUILD
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ROBERT CROWN CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $300 · revenue -89%
  • University of Illinois Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200 · revenue +49%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
3
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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4
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
5
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Group

The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…

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6
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
7
Chicago Blend Group Inc

Creating a more inclusive venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Community Improvement
8
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
9
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

—
10
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
11
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity International Inc D/B/a Opportunity International-Us; the most unlike its peers is Northwest Girl Choir. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $93,716 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FDTHE CRU FOUNDATION: $3,300 · OtherEPIPHANY PARISH MUSIC GUILD: $1,500 · OtherCANDOR HEALTH: $500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $300 · OtherPARNERS IN HEALTH: $250 · Other+3 more: $300 · OtherNorthwest Girl Choir: $2,600 · Arts & CultureSOLI DEO GLORIA INC: $1,600 · Public BenefitHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $350 · HealthWORLD VISION INC: $250 · InternationalOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $250 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ROBERT CROWN CENTER: $300 · Recreation & SportsUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $200 · Education
Philanthropy$93,716Other$6,150Arts & Culture$2,600Public Benefit$1,600Health$850International$600Recreation & Sports$300Education$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwest Girl Choir: $2,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOLI DEO GLORIA INC: $1,600 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ROBERT CROWN CENTER: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTART EARLY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRESCENT PROJECT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Frances and Everett Johnston Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frances and Everett Johnston Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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