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The Raymond C and Anna T Johnson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$322k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$920kCommunity Improvement$680kEducation$101kPhilanthropy$74kHealth$69kFood & Nutrition$57kEmployment$51kAnimals$37kYouth Development$35kOther$543k
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $228k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION$50,000
CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER$30,000
CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO$25,000
KCRW$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
ARTWORKS$25,000
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CINCINNATI & HAMILTON COUNTY FOUNDATION$20,000
MOST VALUABLE KIDS OF GREATER CINCINNATI$17,500
CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION$10,000
CINCINNATI CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$10,000
CORPORATION FOR FINDLAY MARKET$10,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI$10,000
CINCINNATI CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CINCINNATI$10,000
KCRW$8,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP CASEY: $5k → 8%SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $16k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of The Raymond C and Anna T Johnson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Raymond C and Anna T Johnson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 33 repeat orgs$306k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
28

Total granted

$2.2M
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

76%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementAnimalsPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CU
    CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $377k · revenue +143%
  • CP
    Cincinnati Public Radio Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $343k · revenue +51%
  • TC
    The Contemporary Arts Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • CM
    CINCINNATI METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • MC
    MUSICNOW CINCINNATI
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • CS
    CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +110%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Know Theatre of Cincinnati

Know Theatre is a small professional theatre showcasing voices, new works, & plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic…

Arts & Culture
2
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.

Arts & Culture
3
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

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4
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati

The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…

Arts & Culture
5
Cintrifuse

To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.

Community Improvement
6
Cincinnati Arts Association

The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), a not-for-profit, was founded in 1990 to serve as a manager, presenter and educator. CAA's mission is to present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse…

Arts & Culture
7
Cincinnati Observatory Center

The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.

Arts & Culture
8
World Affairs Council - Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky

The World Affairs Council, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is the bridge that connects the world to one of America's most vibrant regions. Through Global education, International exchange, and cultural awareness initiatives, the council strengthens…

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9
Literary Cleveland

Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.

Education
10
Greater Cincinnati Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc

The cincinnati usa convention & visitors bureau is an aggressive sales, marketing, and service organization. our primary responsibility is to positively impact the region's area economy through convention, tradeshow and visitor…

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11
Columbus Area Arts Council Inc

To enhance the quality of life in the community by stimulating community interest in art, fostering creation and inquiry throughout columbus, and leading a vibrant arts culture tied to our unique history.

Arts & Culture
12
Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation

To promote the increase of media production in Northeast Ohio using effective strategies for attraction and workforce development including building an artistic infrastructure through film, achieve increased economic development in…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati and the most unlike its peers is Mini Microcinema. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr13%10%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr13%3%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr17%40%20–35yr16%8%35–55yr16%38%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
13%
779/6,147

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.

05the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
29/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cincinnati Public Radio Inc — $342,500 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Public Radio IncThe Contemporary Arts Center — $235,000 · Arts & CultureThe Contemporary Arts CenterART OPPORTUNITIES INC — $95,000 · Arts & CultureART OPPORTUNITIES INCENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI — $40,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC — $36,600 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $171,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $377,000 · Community ImprovementCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBE…CINCINNATI CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $100,000 · Community ImprovementCINCINNATI CENTER CITY DEVELOP…Corporation for Findlay Market — $98,000 · Community ImprovementCorporation for Findlay MarketOVER THE RHINE REVITALIZATION CORPORATION — $80,000 · Community ImprovementOVER THE RHINE REVITALIZATION …+2 more — $25,000 · Community ImprovementKCRW — $148,000 · OtherKCRWYWCA OF CINCINNATI — $75,000 · OtherYWCA OF CINCINNATICINTI CENTER CITY DEV CORP — $40,000 · OtherCINTI CENTER CITY DEV CORPMOST VALUABLE KIDS — $32,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherCINCINNATI METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY — $25,000 · OtherSALEM HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $24,500 · OtherMortar Cincinnati — $50,500 · OtherMortar CincinnatiMOUNTAIN VIEW HUMANE — $26,500 · Other+25 more — $212,850 · Other+25 moreThe Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc — $90,000 · EducationOHIO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $50,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of Cincinnati — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFlywheel Social Enterprise HUB — $10,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $3,500 · PhilanthropyELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $56,000 · HealthMAY WE HELP INC — $12,500 · HealthFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA — $36,500 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$920,100Community Improvement$680,000Other$664,850Education$101,000Philanthropy$73,500Health$68,500Food & Nutrition$56,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $377,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc — $342,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetThe Contemporary Arts Center — $235,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCINCINNATI CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCorporation for Findlay Market — $98,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC — $95,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetThe Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc — $90,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetOVER THE RHINE REVITALIZATION CORPORATION — $80,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $56,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMortar Cincinnati — $50,500 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI — $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC — $36,600 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA — $36,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBespoken Live — $30,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetMOUNTAIN VIEW HUMANE — $26,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWave Pool Corp — $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICNOW — $20,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetSEW VALLEY — $20,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetJEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD — $18,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMOST VALUABLE KIDS OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $17,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS — $16,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHillman Accelerator — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIMOYO LTD — $12,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetMAY WE HELP INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Federation of Cincinnati — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlywheel Social Enterprise HUB — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWOMEN'S CITY CLUB OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetFound Village — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetISH FESTIVAL — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMINI MICROCINEMA — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetOHIO RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCARACOLE INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation — $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetADVENTURE CREW — $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Chamber Orchestra — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVisionaries and Voices — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP CASEY CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI ZOO FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Greater Cincinnati Film Commission — $1,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Mercantile Library — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Carol Ann and Ralph V…The Greater Cincinnat…John a Schroth Family…Millstone FundGe Aerospace Foundati…The Thomas J Emery Me…Johnson Charitable Gi…Earthward Bound Found…Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlap…The Wohlgemuth Hersch…Duke Energy FoundationCharles H Dater Found…
Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr FoundationOH56.5× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Millstone Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Earthward Bound Foundation · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Duke Energy Foundation · Charles H Dater 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 Raymond C and Anna T 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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