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The Johnson Street 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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$62,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$61M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Johnson Street Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalCrime & LegalEducationCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$2.2M17%
FY202423$2.0M22%
FY202323$1.9M13%
FY202219$1.5M32%
FY202120$1.6M15%
FY202018$1.6M11%
FY201924$2.1M38%
FY201819$1.6M26%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$5.4MHuman Services$5.2MHealth$3.2MCrime & Legal$2.2MEducation$1.2MInternational$985kHousing & Shelter$911kYouth Development$625kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
NJ
RI
CA
AZ
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees
All grantees of The Johnson Street Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Arab-American Family Support Center Inc$925,00092%
University Settlement Society of New York$836,00080%
Brookdale Hospital Medical Center$668,90080%
The Child Center of Ny Inc$662,50070%
EL PASO GUIDANCE CENTER INC dba EL PASO CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER$638,33667%
The Bronx Defenders$625,00070%
Sunset Park Health Council Inc$550,00040%
Fund for the City of New York Inc$500,00090%
The Center for Victims of Torture$500,00051%
International Rescue Committee INC$485,00050%
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Inc$475,00080%
Justice Innovation Inc$400,00040%
The New School$400,00050%
Freedom for Immigrants$350,00035%
New Alternatives for Children Inc$350,00040%
Montefiore Medical Center$320,00040%
Sanctuary for Families Inc$305,00031%
Safe Horizon Inc$300,00030%
Forestdale Inc$265,00040%
Teachers College Columbia University$265,00040%
New York University$200,00020%
The Children's Health Fund$200,00021%
South Ward Alliance$200,00021%
Hunts Point Alliance for Children$146,21332%
Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc$140,00030%
The Bridge Project Inc$125,0001n/a
Sco Foundation Inc$112,50021%
New York Foundling$100,00020%
Ycs Foundation Inc$100,00018%
Nido de Esperanza Charitable Society$100,00014%
Rising Ground Inc$100,00020%
Refugee Services of Texas Inc$88,40020%
Asiyah Womens Center Inc$75,0001n/a
Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership Inc$50,00011%
Fostering Media Connections$40,00051%
Sco Family of Services$37,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Johnson Street Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Arab-American Family Support Center Inc: $925,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetUniversity Settlement Society of New York: $836,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBrookdale Hospital Medical Center: $668,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Child Center of Ny Inc: $662,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEL PASO GUIDANCE CENTER INC dba EL PASO CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER: $638,336 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetThe Bronx Defenders: $625,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSunset Park Health Council Inc: $550,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFund for the City of New York Inc: $500,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Victims of Torture: $500,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $485,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFlorence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Inc: $475,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetJustice Innovation Inc: $400,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe New School: $400,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom for Immigrants: $350,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetNew Alternatives for Children Inc: $350,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMontefiore Medical Center: $320,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSanctuary for Families Inc: $305,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSafe Horizon Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetForestdale Inc: $265,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $265,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Health Fund: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSouth Ward Alliance: $200,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHunts Point Alliance for Children: $146,213 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetJewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc: $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSco Foundation Inc: $112,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNew York Foundling: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYcs Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetNido de Esperanza Charitable Society: $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetRising Ground Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRefugee Services of Texas Inc: $88,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNorthern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFostering Media Connections: $40,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSco Family of Services: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Robin Hood FoundationNY25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Good Plus Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Edith Glick Shoolman Children's Foundation C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies LLP · Food Bank for New York City · Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · United Way of New York City · Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to The Johnson Street Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Johnson Street Foundation

How much does The Johnson Street Foundation give?
The Johnson Street Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $2,222,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Johnson Street Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Human Services (25%), Health (15%).
Who are The Johnson Street Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Arab-American Family Support Center Inc ($925k), University Settlement Society of New York ($836k), Brookdale Hospital Medical Center ($669k).
Does The Johnson Street Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Johnson Street Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Johnson Street Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robin Hood Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Good Plus Foundation Inc.
Where is The Johnson Street Foundation based?
The Johnson Street Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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