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The Johnson 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.

$61k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$309kCommunity Improvement$74kHousing & Shelter$3kRecreation & Sports$3k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$919k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARITON CHAMBER & DEVELOPMENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$48,500
IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
CHARITON VALLEY REGINAL HOUSING TRUST FUND$3,000
CHARITON BOOSTERS$2,500
UNI FOUNDATION$1,500
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SIMPSON COLLEGE: $8k → 6%WARTBURG COLLEGE: $525 → 7%IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CHARITON VALLEY REGINAL HOUSING TRUST FUND: $3k → 14%CHARITON COMM FOUNDATION: $54k → 16%IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CHARITON COMM FOUNDATION: $52k → 16%IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CHARITON CHAMBER & DEVELOPMENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $49k → 16%IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CHARITON COMM FOUNDATION: $40k → 16%IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%CHARITON COMM FOUNDATION: $29k → 16%IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%CHARITON CHAMBER AND DEVELOPMENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%CHARITON COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15k → 16%IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%CHARITON BOOSTERS: $3k → 16%IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%FAITH BAPTIST BIBLE COLLEGE: $8k → 10%JOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10k → 10%GRAND VIEW COLLEGE: $7k → 10%GRAND VIEW COLLEGE: $7k → 10%GRAND VIEW COLLEGE: $7k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $12k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$332k · 6 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$332k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+26%

Still filing today

33%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • CC
    CHARITON COMM FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $175k
  • CC
    CHARITON CHAMBER AND DEVELOPMENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2025 · $74k · revenue -14%
  • IC
    IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHARITON COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • JC
    JOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +235%
  • SC
    Simpson Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +26%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Barclay College

The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.

Education
2
Tabor College

Preparing people for a life of learning, work, and service for Christ and His kingdom.

Education
3
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
4
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
5
Hilbert College

Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…

Education
6
Cornell College

Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…

Education
7
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
8
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
9
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
10
Briar Cliff University

Briar cliff university is a community committed to higher education within a liberal arts and catholic perspective. in the franciscan tradition of service, caring and openness to all, briar cliff emphasizes quality education for its…

Education
11
Dordt University

As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…

Education
12
Central Iowa Christian School

Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wartburg College and the most unlike its peers is Chariton Valley Regional Housing Trust Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHARITON COMM FOUNDATION — $174,900 · OtherCHARITON COMM FOUNDATIONIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATIONGRAND VIEW COLLEGE — $21,000 · OtherGRAND VIEW COLLEGECHARITON COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWA — $14,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA — $14,000 · Other+3 more — $11,500 · OtherCHARITON CHAMBER AND DEVELOPMENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $73,500 · Community ImprovementCHARITON CHAMBER AND …JOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $10,000 · EducationSimpson College — $7,500 · EducationFaith Baptist Bible College — $7,500 · Education+2 more — $1,025 · EducationCHARITON VALLEY REGIONAL HOUSING TRUST FUND INC — $3,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$285,400Community Improvement$73,500Education$26,025Housing & Shelter$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHARITON CHAMBER AND DEVELOPMENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $73,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetJOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSimpson College — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFaith Baptist Bible College — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITON VALLEY REGIONAL HOUSING TRUST FUND INC — $3,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWARTBURG COLLEGE — $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CHARITON CHAMBER AND DEVELOPMENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds Simpson College
  • Who funds Faith Baptist Bible College
  • Who funds CHARITON VALLEY REGIONAL HOUSING TRUST FUND INC
  • Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE
  • Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

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.

Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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