· Private foundation
The Lloyd and Mabel Johnson 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE LLOYD AND MABEL JOHNSON FOUNDATION’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 $10k9 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $582k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFE REMODELED | $200,000 |
| HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC | $200,000 |
| WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $140,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $130,000 |
| ACTIVE FAITH COMM SERVICES | $100,000 |
| KEYS FOR KIDS | $100,000 |
| POPE FRANCIS CENTER | $100,000 |
| LIFE BUILDERS | $100,000 |
| YANKEE AIR MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN CDC | $100,000 |
| CAMP MICHAWANA | $77,500 |
| ROCHESTER UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| GULL LAKE MINISTRIES | $75,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT | $75,000 |
| KID'S HOPE USA | $75,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% 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.
75 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 9 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- HMHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +9%
LIFE REMODELED6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +30%- LLifeBUILDERS6× · 2020–2025 · $588k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- PPPHILEMON PROJECT-WORLD OUTREACHone grant, 2020 · $165k
- HLHARBOR LIGHT COMMUNITY CHAPELone grant, 2022 · $150k
- GLGULL LAKE MINISTRIES-CASHone grant, 2022 · $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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
We exist to equip and train the Christian community and those in vocational ministry to effectively handle the pressures, circumstances and relationships of life. This is accomplished through conferences, workshops, training, discipleship,…
Provide strong Christian faith-based solutions for the personal development of men and women with life-controlling problems. Hold high standards that help our students
to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,
Fireproof Ministries exists to bring people to the Lord as well as train and develop people to meet the unmet needs of the world through culturally relevant programs and ideas.
Mission nbsp;schedule nbsp;o
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Solid Rock Ministries. 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 27 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 16% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 112 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 HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED ↗
- Who funds LifeBUILDERS ↗
- Who funds Westside Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Keys for Kids Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Faith Hospice ↗
- Who funds Kids Hope USA ↗
- Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MICHAWANA YOUTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds ORION'S QUEST ↗
- Who funds Rochester Christian University ↗
- Who funds GULL LAKE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Covenant Community Care Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FREEDOM LAW CENTER INC DBA AFLC % CINDY PAGE ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE FAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Designed To Thrive ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone University ↗
- Who funds MACK AVENUE COMMUNITY CHURCH COMM DEVE CORP ↗
- Who funds THE NEHEMIAH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds REACHING HIGHER INC ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center ↗
- Who funds CROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
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: Gordon Christian Trust · Barnabas Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Two Fish Foundation · Christian Community 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 Lloyd and Mabel Johnson 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.
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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