· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +81% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHARITON COMM FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $175k
- CCCHARITON CHAMBER AND DEVELOPMENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2025 · $74k · revenue +81%
- ICIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- CCCHARITON COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $15k
- JCJOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +235%
- SCSimpson Collegegraduatedone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +26%
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 mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
Preparing people for a life of learning, work, and service for Christ and His kingdom.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
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…
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…
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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