· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GREATER BIRMINGHAM MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL 9-11 MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SEEDS | $10,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| TRINITY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- 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 ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Johnson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Johnson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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