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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.

$282k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$127,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2025still arriving21$281k24%
FY202412$204k17%
FY202317$290k35%
FY202220$260k20%
FY202120$158k35%
FY202013$100k23%
FY201912$98k25%
FY201817$190k53%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.0MReligion$386kHealth$149kPhilanthropy$75kHuman Services$52kCommunity Improvement$37kHousing & Shelter$30kYouth Development$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
NY
SD
IN
OH
CO
MD
AZ
KS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Black Hills State University Foundation$826,37793%
Liberty Classical Academy$170,00081%
Scottsdale Bible Church$50,0001n/a
Greater Twin Cities United Way$50,00020%
Children's Hospital Association Inc$47,00051%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$31,00060%
Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative$30,00070%
Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties$16,00060%
Garden of Hope Montessori$16,00053%
Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation$16,00030%
Eagle Brook Church$14,0003n/a
The 22Q Family Foundation Inc$14,00033%
Reaching Our Communitys Kids$13,00038%
Warrior Dog Rescue$9,50021%
Four Peaks Rotary Foundation$9,25054%
Washburn Center for Children$8,00030%
The Link$8,00060%
Hill-Murray Foundation$6,0001n/a
We Saw the Light$4,0001n/a
Aspen Academy$3,17020%
Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church$3,0001n/a
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$3,00020%
Spare Key$3,00010%
Impactone Breast Cancer Foundation$3,00060%
Laker Educational Foundation$1,50012%
American Kidney Fund Inc$1,00010%
Special Olympics Minnesota Inc$1,00010%
Arizona Humane Society$60020%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$50010%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North$50010%
Mahtomedi Youth Hockey Association$50010%
Special Olympics Arizona Inc$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($436k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlack Hills State University Foundation: $826,377 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetLiberty Classical Academy: $170,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetGreater Twin Cities United Way: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Association Inc: $47,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBeacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative: $30,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGarden of Hope Montessori: $16,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetUrban Ventures Leadership Foundation: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe 22Q Family Foundation Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetReaching Our Communitys Kids: $13,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetWarrior Dog Rescue: $9,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFour Peaks Rotary Foundation: $9,250 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Link: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Academy: $3,170 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpare Key: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetImpactone Breast Cancer Foundation: $3,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLaker Educational Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAmerican Kidney Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Minnesota Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of the North: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMahtomedi Youth Hockey Association: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics Arizona Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 27.

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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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL16.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family Foundation

How much does The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family Foundation give?
The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $281,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Religion (21%), Health (8%).
Who are The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Black Hills State University Foundation ($826k), Liberty Classical Academy ($170k), Scottsdale Bible Church ($50k).
Does The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family 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 Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Pohlad Family Foundation.
Where is The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family Foundation based?
The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family Foundation is based in AZ.

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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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