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The Lloyd and Mabel Johnson Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$4.3MReligion$2.5MEducation$1.9MHuman Services$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.3MHousing & Shelter$996kArts & Culture$588kRecreation & Sports$420kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $582k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.1M
$30,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$75M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC$200,000
LIFE REMODELED$200,000
WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$140,000
Individual grant recipient$130,000
KEYS FOR KIDS$100,000
LIFE BUILDERS$100,000
POPE FRANCIS CENTER$100,000
YANKEE AIR MUSEUM$100,000
ACTIVE FAITH COMM SERVICES$100,000
CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN CDC$100,000
CAMP MICHAWANA$77,500
DAVID'S HOUSE MINISTRIES$75,000
GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT$75,000
GULL LAKE MINISTRIES$75,000
ROCHESTER UNIVERSITY$75,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT: $75k → 11%REACHING HIGHER: $37k → 5%WARNING LIGHTS: $17k → 11%REACHING HIGHER: $32k → 5%GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT: $75k → 11%REACHING HIGHER: $30k → 5%WARNING LIGHTS: $17k → 11%HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: $10k → 14%REACHING HIGHER: $29k → 5%NEHEMIAH PROJECT: $50k → 11%REACHING HIGHER: $20k → 5%WARNING LIGHTS: $15k → 11%NEHEMIAH PROJECT: $50k → 11%WARNING LIGHTS: $15k → 11%NEHEMIAH PROJECT: $50k → 11%WARNING LIGHTS: $15k → 11%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $100k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $100k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $100k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $90k → 21%LIFE BUILDERS: $125k → 21%LIFE BUILDERS: $103k → 21%LIFE BUILDERS: $100k → 21%LIFE BUILDERS: $100k → 21%LIFE BUILDERS: $85k → 21%LIFE BUILDERS: $75k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
WY
IN
PA
CA
AZ
AR
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 75 repeat orgs$972k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
27

Total granted

$15M
$836k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+16%

Still filing today

55%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HM
    HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +9%
  • LIFE REMODELED
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +38%
  • L
    LifeBUILDERS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $588k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • PP
    PHILEMON PROJECT-WORLD OUTREACH
    one grant, 2020 · $165k
  • HL
    HARBOR LIGHT COMMUNITY CHAPEL
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • GL
    GULL LAKE MINISTRIES-CASH
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries
Health
2
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
3
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

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…

Religion
4
L I F E Ministries Inc Community Pregnancy Center

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health
5
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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6
Crossing Cultures International Inc

Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.

Religion
7
Exchanged Life Ministries

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,…

Religion
8
Life Challenge of Michigan Inc

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

Human Services
9
Washington Prayer Coalition

to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,

Religion
10
Fireproof Ministries Inc

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.

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11
Central Michigan Youth for Christ

Mission nbsp;schedule nbsp;o

Youth Development
12
Movement West Michigan

Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; 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.
04the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
37/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $1,615,500 · OtherHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INCCENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN CDC: $750,000 · OtherCENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN CDCIndividual grant recipient: $736,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYANKEE AIR MUSEUM: $400,000 · OtherRochester Christian University: $325,000 · OtherORION'S QUEST: $350,000 · Other+73 more: $5,339,676 · Other+73 moreLifeBUILDERS: $587,500 · Human ServicesLifeBUILDE…POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $390,000 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANC…THE NEHEMIAH PROJECT: $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEHEMI…GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT: $150,000 · Human ServicesGRAND RAPI…REACHING HIGHER INC: $147,500 · Human ServicesREACHING H…WARNING LIGHTS: $79,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesLIFE REMODELED: $1,000,000 · Housing & ShelterLIFE REMOD…DAVID'S HOUSE MINISTRIES: $475,000 · Housing & ShelterDAVID'S HO…+1 more: $13,500 · Housing & ShelterWestside Christian Academy: $567,000 · EducationKids Hope USA: $400,000 · EducationCornerstone University: $170,000 · Education+2 more: $22,500 · EducationKeys for Kids Ministries Inc: $452,500 · ReligionGULL LAKE MINISTRIES: $280,000 · ReligionDesigned To Thrive: $173,000 · ReligionMULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES: $70,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF THE MASTER INC: $50,000 · Religion+7 more: $73,000 · ReligionFaith Hospice: $450,000 · HealthCovenant Community Care Inc: $265,000 · HealthLIFE INTERNATIONAL: $135,000 · HealthFOOTPRINTS INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · HealthMICHAWANA YOUTH CAMP: $354,524 · Recreation & SportsSoar Detroit: $95,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$9,516,676Human Services$1,514,000Housing & Shelter$1,488,500Education$1,159,500Religion$1,098,500Health$900,000Recreation & Sports$449,524

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $1,615,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetLIFE REMODELED: $1,000,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetLifeBUILDERS: $587,500 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetWestside Christian Academy: $567,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetDAVID'S HOUSE MINISTRIES: $475,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetKeys for Kids Ministries Inc: $452,500 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetFaith Hospice: $450,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKids Hope USA: $400,000 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $390,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMICHAWANA YOUTH CAMP: $354,524 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetORION'S QUEST: $350,000 over 6y, 88% of budgetRochester Christian University: $325,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGULL LAKE MINISTRIES: $280,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCovenant Community Care Inc: $265,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FREEDOM LAW CENTER INC DBA AFLC % CINDY PAGE: $242,500 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetACTIVE FAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $227,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $210,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDesigned To Thrive: $173,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetCornerstone University: $170,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMACK AVENUE COMMUNITY CHURCH COMM DEVE CORP: $160,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTHE NEHEMIAH PROJECT: $150,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT: $150,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetREACHING HIGHER INC: $147,500 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center: $145,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES: $145,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLIFE INTERNATIONAL: $135,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNEW CITY KIDS INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetYouth for Christ of Detroit: $118,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSoar Detroit: $95,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetWARNING LIGHTS: $79,000 over 5y, 18% of budget360 DETROIT INC: $70,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetMULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES: $70,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL ROTARY CLUB OF ADRIAN MORNING MI: $56,250 over 5y, 22% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $52,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MASTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetFOOTPRINTS INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $46,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIS HARVEST STAND: $42,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLIVINGSTONE COMMUNITY NETWORK: $40,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetCOALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEARY UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN MUSIC BROADCASTERS INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMIO Frontiers: $15,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolid Rock Ministries: $13,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLIVING THREADS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budget
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 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 ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds REACHING HIGHER INC ↗
  • Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds CROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES ↗

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.

Gordon Christian TrustBarnabas FoundationCommunity Foundation …Edgar and Elsa Prince…United Way for Southe…WK Kellogg FoundationDouglas & Maria Devos…Peter C & Emajean Coo…The Community Foundat…Grand Rapids Communit…Two Fish FoundationChristian Community F…
Gordon Christian TrustMI21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lloyd and Mabel Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lloyd and Mabel Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Lloyd and Mabel Johnson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Lloyd and Mabel Johnson 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.

    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 112 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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