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The Lynn and Gloria Johnson Family Foundation at a glance

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The Lynn and Gloria Johnson Family 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.

$628k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.9MReligion$1.7MHuman Services$470kHealth$255kPublic Safety & Disaster$106kPhilanthropy$87kAnimals$67kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $550k
$30,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$200,000
MAYO CLINIC$200,000
COURAGE COALITION$50,000
E4E RELIEF LLC$50,000
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY$50,000
LONGLEAF ANIMAL SANCTUARY$30,000
ISRAEL RELIEF FUND$18,000
THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY AND SCHOOL$10,000
MINNESOTA CHIEFS OF POLICE FOUNDATION$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NAPA VALLEY$5,000
WINGS FOR LIFE USA$5,000
PMC JIMMY FUND$250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $1k → 14%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $10k → 11%FAITH'S LODGE: $500 → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%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

ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
OH
PA
CA
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 50 repeat orgs$802k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
53

Total granted

$4.5M
$394k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+25%

Still filing today

52%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $408k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +105%
  • SF
    SHOLOM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $51k · revenue +9%
  • SA
    SHA ARIM INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TI
    TEMPLE ISRAEL
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • MP
    MILWAUKEE POLICE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $54k · revenue +791%
  • SP
    SAINT PAUL POLICE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -64%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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8
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
11
St Olaf College

St. olaf college challenges students to excel in the liberal arts, examine faith and values, and explore meaningful vocation in an inclusive, globally engaged community nourished by lutheran tradition.

Education
12
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Courage Coalition. 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

65 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. 65 of the 114 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/65
Grantees still filing
42/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINNESOTA HILLEL: $1,600,000 · OtherMINNESOTA HILLELJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - ST PAUL: $375,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - ST PAULCHILDRENS HOSPITALS AND CLINICS MN: $210,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITALS AND CLINICS MNMAYO CLINIC: $200,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC+72 more: $752,649 · Other+72 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,650,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION+18 more: $173,500 · Education+18 moreSAINT PAUL POLICE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED JEWISH FUND AND COUNCIL ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyVARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF THE UNITED STATES: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyODD MAN INN ANIMAL REFUGE: $65,000 · AnimalsLONGLEAF ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $30,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $10,000 · AnimalsMILWAUKEE POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $54,000 · Crime & LegalMINNESOTA CHIEFS OF POLICE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Crime & LegalCOURAGE COALITION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Theatre Company and School: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSix Points Theater: $7,000 · Arts & CultureSHOLOM FOUNDATION: $51,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,500 · Human Services
Other$3,137,649Education$1,823,500Philanthropy$132,000Animals$105,000Crime & Legal$74,000Arts & Culture$67,000Human Services$62,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,650,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA HILLEL: $1,600,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetODD MAN INN ANIMAL REFUGE: $65,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetSHOLOM FOUNDATION: $51,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSAINT PAUL POLICE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTHE UNITED JEWISH FUND AND COUNCIL ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetE4E RELIEF LLC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Charities of America: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHA ARIM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMINNESOTA CHIEFS OF POLICE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSimpson College: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Jamestown: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cookie Cart: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD STUDENT CENTER AT UofM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF THE UNITED STATES: $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSix Points Theater: $7,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $5,675 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSurvivor Mitzvah Project: $2,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTEAMWOMENMN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEXTILE CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HILLEL ↗
  • Who funds ODD MAN INN ANIMAL REFUGE ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHOLOM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAINT PAUL POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED JEWISH FUND AND COUNCIL ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds COURAGE COALITION ↗
  • Who funds E4E RELIEF LLC ↗
  • Who funds LONGLEAF ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds The Breast Cancer Charities of America ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SHA ARIM INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA CHIEFS OF POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mike & Linda Fiterman…The Richard M Schulze…Mightycause Charitabl…Baird Foundation IncMarshall & Elaine Sie…Minneapolis Jewish Fe…Otto Bremer TrustRoger and Myra Greenb…Daniel Spiegel Family…The Rum Fund
The Minneapolis FoundationMN31.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Marshall & Elaine Siegel Foundation · Minneapolis Jewish Federation · Otto Bremer Trust · Roger and Myra Greenberg Family Foundation · Daniel Spiegel Family Foundation co Paul Swanson · The Rum Fund

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 Lynn and Gloria Johnson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lynn and Gloria Johnson Family 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 114 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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