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The Mary Lincoln Johnson Charitable Foundation C/O Anne Evans

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.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$369kFood & Nutrition$177kHuman Services$174kEducation$116kEnvironment$83kAnimals$75kCrime & Legal$37kHousing & Shelter$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $85k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
WATER WELL TRUST$10,000
WESTBOROUGH FOOD PANTRY$10,000
CARENET OF MIDCOAST MAINE$10,000
WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$10,000
THE HARPSWELL SANTA FUND$10,000
DIGNITY MATTERS$10,000
ACADEMY OF THE HOLY NAMES$10,000
CAPE KID MEALS$7,500
BAYPATH HUMANE SOCIETY$7,500
HOPELINK BEHAVIORAL HEALTH$5,000
THE DEEP WELL PROJECT$5,000
MCLEAN HOSPITAL$5,000
PANDAS NETWORK$5,000
DONORS CHOOSE$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PATRIOT PAWS: $10k → 5%THE CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 10%TAMPA HOMELESS OUTREACH: $5k → 12%SAFE SPOT: $5k → 6%EMBRACE A VET: $10k → 9%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $7k → 6%MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS: $10k → 9%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $7k → 6%EMBRACE A VET: $10k → 7%CLOTHES TO KIDS RI INC: $5k → 14%DIGNITY MATTERS: $10k → 11%PREBLE STREET: $5k → 7%THE HARPSWELL SANTA FUND: $10k → 7%HARPSWELL AGING AT HOME: $10k → 7%THE HARPSWELL SANTA FUND: $8k → 7%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE: $5k → 8%THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER: $5k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS: $8k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS: $8k → 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE: $3k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS: $8k → 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE: $3k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS: $5k → 8%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

ME
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
AR
NC
SC
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$987k · 34 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
31

Total granted

$987k
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+24%

Still filing today

65%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthAnimalsEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • WW
    WATER WELL TRUST INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +437%
  • WC
    WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +14%
  • PN
    PANDAS NETWORKORG
    9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • PV
    PARMENTER VNA AND COMMUNITY CARE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • CM
    CENTRAL MAINE MEDICAL CENTER COMPASSIONATE CARE FUND FOR TRAUMA RESPONSE
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +18%
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
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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2
Community Cooks Inc

Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…

Food & Nutrition
3
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
4
The Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp

The family pantry's mission is to provide food and clothing to those in need without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, residence, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, handicap, veteran, or any other status.

Food & Nutrition
5
Spoonfuls

Spoonfuls is an organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of healthy, perishable food that would otherwise be discarded. spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and…

Food & Nutrition
6
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
7
Connecticut Foodshare Inc

The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.

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8
Vermont Foodbank

To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.

Food & Nutrition
9
Virginia Peninsula Foodbank

To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.

Food & Nutrition
10
Feeding Westchester Inc

Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.

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11
Project Bread-the Walk for Hunger Inc

Project bread integrates expertise earned through directly serving individuals, research, advocacy, and community engagement for a comprehensive approach that achieves large scale, sustainable impact to prevent hunger.

Food & Nutrition
12
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for Others Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

49 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. 49 of the 72 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $73,000 · OtherJESUIT HIGH SCHOOLMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $60,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMid Coast Hospital: $50,000 · OtherMid Coast HospitalWestborough Food Pantry Inc: $40,000 · OtherWestborough Food Pantry IncHOPE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $40,000 · OtherHOPE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CAREBAYPATH HUMANE SOCIETY: $35,000 · OtherBAYPATH HUMANE SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherHUNTINGTONS DISEASE SOCIETY: $25,000 · OtherPARMENTER VNA AND COMMUNITY CARE INC: $25,000 · OtherPRS: $24,000 · OtherDONORSCHOOSEORG: $30,000 · Other+28 more: $201,250 · Other+28 moreDignity Matters Inc: $37,500 · Human ServicesDignity Matters I…THE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $34,750 · Human ServicesTHE SAFE CHILDREN…MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesMAINE PAWS FOR VE…HARPSWELL SANTA FUND INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesHARPSWELL SANTA F…FOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesFOOD FOR OTHERS I…PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $10,000 · Human ServicesHARPSWELL AGING AT HOME: $10,000 · Human ServicesProject Just Because Inc: $10,000 · Human Services+6 more: $25,500 · Human Services+6 moreWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $70,000 · Food & NutritionWORCESTER C…RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Food & NutritionRHODE ISLAN…DANIEL'S TABLE INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionDANIEL'S TA…Feeding America: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Ame…Good Shepherd Food Bank: $10,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shephe…CAPE KID MEALS INC: $7,500 · Food & NutritionCAPE KID ME…PANDAS NETWORKORG: $64,750 · HealthPANDAS NET…THE PARMENTER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthTHE PARMEN…KEEPSMILIN4ABBIE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthKEEPSMILIN…NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL D…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · HealthWATER WELL TRUST INC: $75,000 · EnvironmentHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $7,500 · EnvironmentTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public BenefitWreaths Across America: $25,000 · Public BenefitPAWS OF HONOR INC: $27,750 · AnimalsRESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS: $5,000 · AnimalsVALOR SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,000 · AnimalsBAYPATH HUMANE SOCIETY OF HOPKINTON INC: $2,500 · Animals
Other$633,250Human Services$189,750Food & Nutrition$122,500Health$119,750Environment$82,500Public Benefit$50,000Animals$40,250

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 budgetWATER WELL TRUST INC: $75,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPANDAS NETWORKORG: $64,750 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetMid Coast Hospital: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWestborough Food Pantry Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetDignity Matters Inc: $37,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $34,750 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetPAWS OF HONOR INC: $27,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWreaths Across America: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARMENTER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $20,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetHARPSWELL SANTA FUND INC: $18,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetKEEPSMILIN4ABBIE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDANIEL'S TABLE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding America: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARPSWELL AGING AT HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetProject Just Because Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE KID MEALS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Shepherds Table Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALOR SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRASOL HEALTH INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS RI INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUNDY'S HARBOR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetINSPIRING MINDS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUMBULL HIGH SCHOOL GOLDEN EAGLE MARCHING BAND CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHILD FIND OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBAYPATH HUMANE SOCIETY OF HOPKINTON INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Outreach Connection: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 WATER WELL TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds PANDAS NETWORKORG ↗
  • Who funds Mid Coast Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Westborough Food Pantry Inc ↗
  • Who funds Dignity Matters Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds MAINE PAWS FOR VETERANS INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWS OF HONOR INC ↗
  • Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
  • Who funds THE PARMENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
  • Who funds HARPSWELL SANTA FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEPSMILIN4ABBIE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
  • Who funds DANIEL'S TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
  • Who funds HARPSWELL AGING AT HOME ↗
  • Who funds Project Just Because Inc ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Boston Foundation 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.

Citizens Charitable FoundationRI19.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Citizens Charitable Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · Wexford Foundation · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Heritage Classic Foundation · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · AbbVie Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Amica Companies Foundation

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 Mary Lincoln Johnson Charitable Foundation C/O Anne Evans funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary Lincoln Johnson Charitable Foundation C/O Anne Evans. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Project Just Because Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Mary Lincoln Johnson Charitable Foundation C/O Anne Evans through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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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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