· Private foundation
The James M Johnston Trust for Char & Educ Purposes
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of THE JAMES M JOHNSTON TRUST FOR CHAR & EDUC PURPOSES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k12 grants · $370k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $1,640,461 |
| Washington Jesuit Academy | $100,000 |
| Kingman Boys and Girls Club, Inc. | $100,000 |
| Culver Educational Foundation | $100,000 |
| Wesleyan University | $100,000 |
| Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys | $85,000 |
| MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital | $85,000 |
| Gonzaga College High School | $85,000 |
| St. Anselm's Abbey School | $85,000 |
| DeMatha Catholic High School | $85,000 |
| New Hope Camp and Conference Center | $80,000 |
| New Hope Presbyterian Church | $80,000 |
| Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart | $80,000 |
| Children's Hospital Foundation | $80,000 |
| Alice Lloyd College | $80,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- RCRosemount Center5× · 2020–2024 · $310k · revenue +49%
- WHWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION3× · 2020–2022 · $215k · revenue +32%
The Madeira School5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +226%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2020 · $1.8M
- UOUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Office of Scholarships and Student Aidone grant, 2022 · $1.7M
- LSLANDON SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +21%
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.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…
Mclean school's small classes and abilities model prepare bright students in kindergarten through twelfth grade, including those with dyslexia, anxiety, and attention issues, for college success.
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.core valueswe share these values of our founding patron, george washington: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility,…
To operate a private school for age 3 through eighth grade students.
Our mission is to be an exemplary learning community - enriched by differences, informed through inquiry, global in reach.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Windward school is a dynamic college-preparatory school that challenges each student to achieve excellence in a nurturing, inclusive community. windward teachers, parents, and administrators work together to inspire our students to be…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington School for Girls and the most unlike its peers is Wesleyan University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 58 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 64 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 Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Rosemount Center ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds KINGMAN BOYS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MATER DEI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Redskin Foundation Inc George Preston Marshall Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Shepherd Foundation Ltd · Crimsonbridge Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Northrop Grumman 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.
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