Texas · Private foundation
The Howard Johnson Foundation
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.
- $318k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 42
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Howard Johnson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 43 | $318k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $290k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $300k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $300k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $240k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $225k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $240k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc | $180,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Jupiter Medical Center Inc | $134,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Animal Medical Center | $115,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $112,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Fresh Air Fund | $109,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $61,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Trustees of Phillips Academy | $52,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Macular Degeneration Association | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $47,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($292k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Howard Johnson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Colket Family Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Florence V Burden Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn) · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · The Diomedes Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Fore River Foundation · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Howard Johnson Foundation
- How much does The Howard Johnson Foundation give?
- The Howard Johnson Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $317,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Howard Johnson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Animals (21%), Education (17%).
- Who are The Howard Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc ($180k), Jupiter Medical Center Inc ($134k), The Animal Medical Center ($115k).
- Does The Howard Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Howard Johnson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Howard Johnson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colket Family Foundation, Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc, Ethel D Colket Foundation.
- Where is The Howard Johnson Foundation based?
- The Howard Johnson Foundation is based in TX.
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