· Private foundation
The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Black Hills State University Foundation | $127,000 |
| Scottsdale Bible Church | $50,000 |
| St Andrews Luthern Church | $20,000 |
| Children's Hospital Association | $10,000 |
| Spearfish Senior Center | $10,000 |
| Eagle Brook Church | $10,000 |
| Warrior Dog Rescue | $6,500 |
| Hill Murray Foundation | $6,000 |
| Reaching Our Communities Kids | $6,000 |
| Liberty Classical Academy | $6,000 |
| 22Q Family Foundation | $5,000 |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | $4,000 |
| We Saw The Light | $4,000 |
| The Link | $3,000 |
| Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +63% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- BHBLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $826k · revenue +529%
- LCLIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY8× · 2018–2025 · $170k · revenue +232%
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION6× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- MCMinnesota Children's Hospital Associationone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MCMINNEAPOLIS CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $6k
- 222Qone grant, 2022 · $4k
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 be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
To assist individuals in developing their ability to earn and become contributing citizens in their community. we support the development of self sufficiency in every person regardless of background, economic status, or level of ability.…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Twin Cities United Way and the most unlike its peers is Reaching Our Communitys Kids. 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 28 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) — 3% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 60 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 BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARDEN OF HOPE MONTESSORI ↗
- Who funds Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties ↗
- Who funds The 22Q Family Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds REACHING OUR COMMUNITYS KIDS ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FOUR PEAKS ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds IMPACTONE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARE KEY ↗
- Who funds GREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION 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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family 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.