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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNSET PARK HEALTH COUNCIL INC | $150,000 |
| EL PASO CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK | $105,000 |
| JUSTICE INNOVATION INC | $100,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| SAFE HORIZON INC | $100,000 |
| THE FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS | $100,000 |
| CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE | $100,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $100,000 |
| FORESTDALE INC | $90,000 |
| MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER | $85,000 |
| YOUTH COMMUNICATION | $75,000 |
| ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER | $62,500 |
| THE BRIDGE PROJECT INC | $62,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of The Johnson Street Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 22 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TATHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $925k · revenue +268%
- USUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK8× · 2017–2025 · $836k · revenue +93%
- BHBROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $669k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- VCVANGUARD CHARITABLE FUND #1046939one grant, 2019 · $200k
- VCVANGUARD CHARITABLE FUND #1042961one grant, 2019 · $200k
- MSMT SINAI - ST LUKE'Sone grant, 2017 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…
To foster the healthy development of children and families and seek to empower them to respond constructively to negative societal factors including racism and its related consequences. through comprehensive, high quality mental health and…
Provide social, legal & behavioral health services to individuals and families affected by life-altering events.
The organization is dedicated to combining education and advocacy to expand opportunities for children and families in order to strengthen the voice of the latino community based on the belief that the most effective way to support latino…
EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
To make a life-altering difference with children, youth and families who are overcoming some of life's most difficult challenges and obstacles, by helping to build a strong foundation for life: a safe, loving, permanent family and the…
To provide a safe, affordable and comprehensive program of high-quality early childhood education, parental and family support, as well as academic enrichment and recreational programs.
The children's home of poughkeepsie is one of the oldest child welfare agencies in the nation. on january 21, 1847, a group of poughkeepsie women met to form the female guardian society to care for the poor, abandoned and neglected in…
For over 150 years, st. vincent's services, inc. (d/b/a heartshare st. vincent's services) has been a symbol of hope, compassion, and strength for vulnerable and under-resourced communities in new york city. (see on schedule o)
The alliance leads new york citys mission to end sexual violence through education, prevention programming, research, and policy change. until we end sexual violence in all forms, we will be here for all survivors and the organizations…
Vns health home care is part of one of the nation's largest nonprofit home and community-based health care organizations. we help people live, age, and heal where they feel most comfortable. please refer to schedule o for additional…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundling and the most unlike its peers is Asiyah Womens Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 56 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds EL PASO GUIDANCE CENTER INC dba EL PASO CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX DEFENDERS ↗
- Who funds SUNSET PARK HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds Freedom for Immigrants ↗
- Who funds NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds FORESTDALE INC ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds The Children's Health Fund ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE PROJECT INC ↗
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.
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
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 Street 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.
- South Ward Alliance — 57% of income from government
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.
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