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Jos & Catherine JOHNSON FAMILY FDN
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of Jos & Catherine JOHNSON FAMILY FDN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $181k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Diocese of Ikot Ekpene | $80,000 |
| St Peter Catholic Church | $30,000 |
| Sacred Heart South Missions Housing | $10,000 |
| Water 1st International | $10,000 |
| The Elephant Sanctuary | $8,000 |
| National Parks Conservation Assoc | $8,000 |
| The Rodale Institute | $5,000 |
| Pollinator Partnership | $5,000 |
| Charity Water | $5,000 |
| Blood Cancer United | $5,000 |
| Fly Fishers International | $5,000 |
| Kiss the Ground | $5,000 |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $5,000 |
| Trout Unlimited | $5,000 |
| Crane Trust | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% 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.
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.
74 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 17 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; $50k 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
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +2%
WILD SALMON CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +371%
CHARITY GLOBAL INC7× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- DODIOCESE OF IKOT EKPENE OFFICE FOR THE MISSIONS USAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +58%
- MSMADELEINE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $20k
- ABALTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…
Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places.
Wild landscapes, inc. (wli) is dedicated to conserving large and connected landscapes globally significant to wildlife and crucial to local communities. our environmental conservation strategy is to empower communities, conservationists,…
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Salmon Center and the most unlike its peers is Diocese of Ikot Ekpene Office for the Missions Usa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 119 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 INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds DIOCESE OF IKOT EKPENE OFFICE FOR THE MISSIONS USA ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Native Fish Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds MADONNA RENEWAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DRAWDOWN ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY GULF ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Patagoniaorg · Meyer Memorial Trust · Clif Family Foundation · Kohnstamm Family Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Collins Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Pledgeling Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Nature Conservancy
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 Jos & Catherine JOHNSON FAMILY FDN 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Native Fish Society Inc — 27% of income from government
- Oregon Community Warehouse Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Solve — 5% of income from government
- International Game Fish Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% 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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