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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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
5%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 21
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$44M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations The Jeanne R Johnson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$2.6M0%
FY202321$2.6M5%
FY202219$2.8M16%
FY202116$1.3M0%
FY202018$1.9M17%
FY201917$675k88%
FY20182$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.7MEducation$3.3MEnvironment$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.2MHuman Services$680kReligion$511kHealth$495kFood & Nutrition$425kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of The Jeanne R Johnson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dallas Symphony Foundation$4,510,000618%
Southern Methodist University$3,300,00060%
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc$1,309,30073%
North Texas Food Bank$425,00050%
Highland Park Presbyterian Church$375,0005n/a
Senior Citizens of Greater Dallas Inc$345,00061%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$322,50060%
Visiting Nurse Association of Texas$270,00060%
Samaritan's Purse$156,50050%
Cal Farley's Boys Ranch$100,00010%
Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc$80,00062%
Btwhs Music Guild Inc$40,000624%
Grant Halliburton Foundation Inc$30,00031%
Friends of the Highland Park Library$30,0006n/a
Ourcalling Inc$21,00030%
Buckner International$20,00040%
American Guild of Organists$20,00020%
Highground Advisors$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($620k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jeanne R Johnson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDallas Symphony Foundation: $4,510,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $3,300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc: $1,309,300 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $425,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSenior Citizens of Greater Dallas Inc: $345,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $322,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVisiting Nurse Association of Texas: $270,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $156,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCal Farley's Boys Ranch: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc: $80,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetBtwhs Music Guild Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetGrant Halliburton Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOurcalling Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBuckner International: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Guild of Organists: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005IL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to The Jeanne R Johnson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Jeanne R Johnson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Jeanne R Johnson Foundation

How much does The Jeanne R Johnson Foundation give?
The Jeanne R Johnson Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $2,650,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Jeanne R Johnson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Education (25%), Environment (10%).
Who are The Jeanne R Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Dallas Symphony Foundation ($4.5M), Southern Methodist University ($3.3M), Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc ($1.3M).
Does The Jeanne R Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Jeanne R 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 Jeanne R Johnson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005, The Dallas Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is The Jeanne R Johnson Foundation based?
The Jeanne R Johnson Foundation is based in TX.

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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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