· Private foundation
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 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
- $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 |
| SAFE HORIZON INC | $100,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| THE FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS | $100,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $100,000 |
| SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE | $100,000 |
| FORESTDALE INC | $90,000 |
| MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER | $85,000 |
| YOUTH COMMUNICATION | $75,000 |
| THE BRIDGE PROJECT INC | $62,500 |
| ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER | $62,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of The Johnson Street Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- YFYCS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +10%
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.
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…
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Johnson Street Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Johnson Street Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- South Ward Alliance: 57% of income from government
How this is measured
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