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The George F and Marion D Johnson Charitable Trust at a glance

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The George F and Marion D Johnson Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$82kReligion$59kHealth$57kEducation$41kInternational$28kEnvironment$27kArts & Culture$23kHousing & Shelter$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$302k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TER$20,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
THE LEAGUE OF TERRE HAUTE$6,000
JUVENILLE DIABETES RESEARCH FUND$5,000
HORIZON HEALTH$5,000
ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY PARISH$5,000
ST BENEDICTS CHURCH$5,000
VIGO COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
UNION HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
CANDLES$5,000
14TH & CHESTNUT$5,000
MOUNT PLEASANT CHURCH$4,000
MARYLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH$3,000
RILEY CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$3,000
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL$2,441
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $1k → 12%14TH AND CHESTNUT COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 19%14TH AND CHESTNUT COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 19%14TH AND CHESTNUT COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 19%14TH AND CHESTNUT COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 19%14TH AND CHESTNUT COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 19%THE LIGHTHOUSE MISSION INC: $2k → 19%THE LIGHT HOUSE MISSION: $2k → 19%THE LIGHT HOUSE MISSION: $1k → 19%THE LIGHT HOUSE MISSION: $750 → 19%THE LEAGUE OF TERRE HAUTE: $6k → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
SD
IN
OH
CT
CO
NE
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$279k · 43 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
36

Total granted

$279k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+32%

Still filing today

35%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalReligionEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • CC
    Catholic Charities Terre Haute Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +54%
  • VC
    Vigo County Education Foundation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +12%
  • Indiana State University Foundation Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF RAE PARK
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • I
    IDRF
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
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
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

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

Health
2
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

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

Health
3
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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4
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
5
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

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

Health
6
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
7
Healthlinc Incorporated

Coordinate health care information by providing a community-wide clinical data and information exchange to the health care community.

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8
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
9
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
10
Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank Inc

The mission of Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank is to feed the hungry in Clay, Greene, Knox, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties through a network of emergency food distribution member agencies and engage our community in…

Food & Nutrition
11
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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12
Indiana Hemophilia & Thrombosis Center Inc

The indiana hemophilia and thrombosis center, inc. is committed to providing the highest quality comprehensive services and holistic care to patients with bleeding, clotting and other hematologic disorders, and to their families.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary. 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

36 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. 36 of the 93 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUVENILLE DIABETES RESEARCH FUND: $29,000 · OtherJUVENILLE DIABETES RESEARCH FUNDCatholic Charities Terre Haute Inc: $28,500 · OtherCatholic Charities Terre Haute IncVigo County Education Foundation Inc: $23,900 · OtherVigo County Education Foundation IncFRIENDS OF THE ARBORETUM INC: $21,200 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ARBORETUM INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TER: $20,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TERCANDLES: $11,800 · OtherHORIZON HEALTH: $11,000 · OtherMOUNT PLEASANT CHURCH: $11,000 · Other+63 more: $147,149 · Other+63 more14th & Chestnut Community Center: $6,500 · Human ServicesLeague of Terre Haute Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT HOUSE MISSION INC: $5,750 · Human ServicesKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $6,300 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $5,849 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 · InternationalIndiana State University Foundation Inc: $15,000 · EducationUNION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,900 · HealthTeam of Mercy Inc: $2,000 · HealthLITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC: $1,500 · HealthWabash Valley Health Center Inc: $1,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · Health+1 more: $300 · HealthHARPETH CONSERVANCY: $4,250 · EnvironmentMEXICO BEACH ARTIFICIAL REEF ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · EnvironmentHAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFFS CHAPLAINCY INC: $2,740 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 · Religion
Other$303,549Human Services$19,750International$15,149Education$15,000Health$14,200Environment$4,750Religion$3,740

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCatholic Charities Terre Haute Inc: $28,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetVigo County Education Foundation Inc: $23,900 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetIndiana State University Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCANDLES: $11,800 over 7y, 1.1% of budget14th & Chestnut Community Center: $6,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $6,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLeague of Terre Haute Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetLIGHT HOUSE MISSION INC: $5,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHARPETH CONSERVANCY: $4,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWabash Valley Habitat for Humanity: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFFS CHAPLAINCY INC: $2,740 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZON HOUSE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Emerald Coast Council 11893: $1,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTerre Haute Boys & Girls Club: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWabash Valley Health Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWFYI Foundation Inc: $900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEXICO BEACH ARTIFICIAL REEF ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTERRE HAUTE WOMEN'S CLUB INC: $440 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $200 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.

  • Who funds Catholic Charities Terre Haute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Vigo County Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Indiana State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CANDLES ↗
  • Who funds 14th & Chestnut Community Center ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds League of Terre Haute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds LIGHT HOUSE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARPETH CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Wabash Valley Habitat for Humanity ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFFS CHAPLAINCY INC ↗
  • Who funds WABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.

Gregory L Gibson Char…Frederick R Benson Tr…Wabash Valley Communi…Indiana Chemical Trus…Clara Fairbanks Found…Max L Gibson & Jacque…Hollie & Anna Oakley …Hulman & Company Foun…Mary Smith Young TrustUnited Way of the Wab…Duke Energy FoundationRose Ladies Aid Socie…
Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation IncIN30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc · Frederick R Benson Trust · Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc · Indiana Chemical Trust Tr Ua-Fdt 320006018 · Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson Foundation · Hollie & Anna Oakley Foundation Inc · Hulman & Company Foundation Inc · Mary Smith Young Trust · United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Rose Ladies Aid Society

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 George F and Marion D Johnson Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George F and Marion D Johnson Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report 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 93 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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