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The 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINDHAM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| HORIZONS | $50,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY HOME AND SHELTER | $50,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE OF EASTERN CT | $50,000 |
| COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| WAIM | $30,000 |
| CT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDA | $30,000 |
| CARD HOME FOR THE AGED | $30,000 |
| NATCHAUG HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| SEXUAL ASSUALT CRISIS CENTER | $15,000 |
| WINDHAM REGIONAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL | $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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- WHWINDHAM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $705k · revenue +396% · 30% of their budget
- HIHORIZONS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +24%
- CSCOVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC8× · 2018–2025 · $225k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- ECECSU CENTER FOR COMMUNITYone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…
The mission of Windham Community Memorial Hospital is to offer comprehensive services in an environment where innovation and teaching are integral to care; where we are proud to serve patients and one another; where meeting the challenge…
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
The mission of the agency is to provide and safeguard quality home health care to all persons in need, especially the indigent and medically underserved population. The agency strongly believes that appropriate health care is a fundamental…
Provide Health and Supportive Services to terminally ill individuals at their home or in a medical facility in Southeastern Connecticut.
Hartford HealthCare's mission is to improve the health and healing of the people and communities it serves.
The mission of Hartford Catholic Worker is to practice the works of mercy. We do this through our work with children and families in our neighborhood, helping to make sure the hungry are fed and helping secure housing for the homeless.
To provide and promote wellness and independence to ensure optimal quality of life for the people we serve.
CHR's mission is to provide treatment, support, rehabilitation, prevention, and education by a well-trained and dedicated staff of professionals who are committed to recovery. Notably, CHR was the first nonprofit in CT to meet all the…
The mission of Martin House, Inc. is to provide a nurturing community where individuals of limited income who have been alone, alienated, fearful, and dispossessed can develop healthy relationships, new dignity, and a renewed life. Our…
Harbor Care's mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant Soup Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Card Home for the Aged Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 WINDHAM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY HOME AND SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Natchaug Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARD HOME FOR THE AGED INC ↗
- Who funds WINDHAM REGIONAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT ↗
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: Ossen Family Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Project Hope of Eastern Connecticut — 100% of income from government
- Windham Regional Community Council Inc — 76% of income from government
- Holy Family Home and Shelter Inc — 47% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Natchaug Hospital Inc — 11% of income from government
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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