· Private foundation
The Johnson Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART | $120,000 |
| MONTCLAIR KIMBERLY ACADEMY | $95,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $55,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION | $40,000 |
| BETHEL ENSLEY ACTION TASK INC | $30,000 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL 9-11 MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| GREATER BIRMINGHAM MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SEEDS | $10,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAINT CATHERINE'S HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k 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
- CCCONNECTICUT COLLEGE4× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +22%
TRINITY COLLEGE4× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +34%
Northwestern University5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +33%
Funded once
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -36%- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INCone grant, 2023 · $45k
- THTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +30%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of the Lawrenceville School and the most unlike its peers is Bethel Ensley Action Task Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 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) — 0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Birmingham Ministries ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Bethel Ensley Action Task Inc ↗
- Who funds New York University School of Law Foundation ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds A SHOT FOR LIFE 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.
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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 Inc 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.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Tower Hill School Association — 0% 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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