· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Eagle Brook Church | $10,000 |
| Children's Hospital Association | $10,000 |
| Spearfish Senior Center | $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 |
| We Saw The Light | $4,000 |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | $4,000 |
| The Link | $3,000 |
| Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BHBLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $826k · revenue +529%
- LCLIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY8× · 2018–2025 · $170k · revenue +232%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2018–2025 · $47k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- MCMinnesota Children's Hospital Associationone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MCMINNEAPOLIS CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $6k
- 222Qone grant, 2022 · $4k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties ↗
- Who funds GARDEN OF HOPE MONTESSORI ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPARE KEY ↗
- Who funds IMPACTONE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Johnnie and Shirley Johnson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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