· Private foundation
The Jeanne R Johnson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $475k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dallas Symphony Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| Southern Methodist University | $1,000,000 |
| Dallas Arboretum | $150,000 |
| North Texas Food Bank | $100,000 |
| The Senior Source | $75,000 |
| Highland Park Presbyterian Church | $50,000 |
| Visiting Nurses Association | $50,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $50,000 |
| American Red Cross | $25,000 |
| Baylor Scott White Dallas Foundatio | $25,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $25,000 |
| Children's Medical Center Foundatio | $25,000 |
| Envision Dallas | $20,000 |
| Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra | $20,000 |
| OurCalling | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $464k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DSDALLAS SYMPHONY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +167%
Southern Methodist University6× · 2019–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +37%- DADALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +47%
Funded once
- CFCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCHone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +16%
- HAHIGHGROUND ADVISORSone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
To inspire and change lives through musical excellence.
The Dallas Bar Association is a nonprofit corporation chartered by the State of Texas to protect and advance the professional interests of persons licensed to practice law in the Dallas area, to improve the relations between the Bench, the…
The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.
The purpose of dallas baptist university is to provide christ-centered quality higher education in the arts, sciences, and professional studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels to traditional age and adult students in order to…
The mission of Dallas Theological Seminary is to glorify God by equipping godly servant-leaders for the proclamation of His Word and the building up of the body of Christ worldwide.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The Dallas Winds, a Grammy-nominated wind ensemble, stands as a cultural cornerstone of Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1985, the Dallas Winds has grown into one of the worlds premier wind bands, renowned for its extraordinary artistry and…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
Together, with our business leaders and community partners, we will help lead the dallas region to become the best place in the united states for all people to live, work, and do business.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Highland Park Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 25 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 DALLAS SYMPHONY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds BTWHS MUSIC GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLAND PARK LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds OURCALLING INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS ↗
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: Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · The Dallas Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Jeanne R 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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