Wisconsin · Private foundation
The Johnson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $14k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,926
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 31
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $65M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations The Johnson Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $14k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $11k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $12k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $13k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $28k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $41k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Racine County Inc | $48,269 | 6 | 0% |
| Metropolis Strategies NFP | $18,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Resources for the Future Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Mississippi River | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Climate Generation | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fresh Energy | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Downtown Racine Corporation | $5,100 | 7 | 1% |
| The Central Rivers Farmshed Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Northwoods Alliance Incorporated | $3,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Johnson Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Racine Community Foundation Inc · Ec Styberg Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ruffo Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Racine County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ascension All Saints Hospital Foundation Inc · Lang Family Foundation Inc · Educators Credit Union · AbbVie Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Johnson Foundation Inc
- How much does The Johnson Foundation Inc give?
- The Johnson Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $14,301 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 31 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Johnson Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (33%), Environment (26%), Community Improvement (15%).
- Who are The Johnson Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: United Way of Racine County Inc ($48k), Metropolis Strategies NFP ($18k), Resources for the Future Inc ($9k).
- Does The Johnson Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Johnson Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Johnson Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Racine Community Foundation Inc, Ec Styberg Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Johnson Foundation Inc based?
- The Johnson Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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