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The Richard & Althea Johanson Family Foundation at a glance

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The Richard & Althea Johanson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$82kPhilanthropy$72kHuman Services$63kPublic Benefit$50kCommunity Improvement$30kAnimals$20kArts & Culture$11kHealth$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRESNO STATE FOUNDATION$50,000
VALLEY CAREGIVER RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
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 (FY19–23, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BOYS TOWN: $50 → 12%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $20k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $5k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $5k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $2k → 19%MARJORIE MASON CENTER: $2k → 19%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$285k · 13 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$285k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+36%

Still filing today

69%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $34k · revenue +120%
  • FB
    FRESNO BUSINESS COUNCIL
    2× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +48%
  • FP
    FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • RC
    REEDLEY COLLEGE CTR PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • CV
    CENTRAL VALLEY REG FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SC
    STATE CENTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Fresno Chamber of Commerce Greater Fresno Area Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing and supporting private sector business

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2
Fresno City Center Corporation

To be a supporting organization of the fresno rescue mission, inc. acting as a trustee in receiving, investing, managing, administrating, and distributing designated funds for the ministries of the mission. also, to invest and develop…

Housing & Shelter
3
Credit Unions in the State of California Sierra Central Credit Union

As your financial institution, we pledge to serve you and our community faithfully. we will be friendly, helpful, and professional, and we will provide great products and competitive rates.

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4
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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5
Saint Agnes Medical Center

We, saint agnes medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint agnes medical center is a member of trinity health.

Health
6
Central Valley Business Federation

To strengthen the voice of business in Californias Central Valley through information sharing expertise networking connections and research to impact economic policies programs and projects.

Community Improvement
7
Central Valley Medical Center

The mission of Central Valley Medical Center is to provide sensitive, compassionate health care of the highest quality to our patients, their families, and friends. We do this in a manner that encourages the efficient use of resources…

Health
8
Foundation for California Community Colleges

The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.

Education
9
Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center

Fresno community hospital and medical center's (fch&mc's) exists to better the lives of all those we serve

Health
10
Fresno Building Healthy Communities

To foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives

Community Improvement
11
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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12
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fresnos Chaffee Zoo Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

18 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. 18 of the 30 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRESNO STATE FOUNDATION: $89,500 · OtherFRESNO STATE FOUNDATIONCSUF FOUNDATION: $35,500 · OtherCSUF FOUNDATIONFRESNO BUSINESS COUNCIL: $30,000 · OtherFRESNO BUSINESS COUNCILFRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $24,550 · OtherFRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITYLINK CARE CENTER: $18,500 · OtherLINK CARE CENTERREEDLEY COLLEGE CTR PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 · OtherCENTRAL VALLEY REG FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+13 more: $31,800 · Other+13 moreMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $34,000 · Human ServicesMARJAREE M…+1 more: $50 · Human ServicesCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $21,000 · PhilanthropyFresnos Chaffee Zoo Corporation: $20,000 · AnimalsVALLEY CAREGIVER RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · HealthVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $7,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthCIVIC EDUCATION CENTER INC: $5,000 · EducationFoundation for Fresno Unified Students: $5,000 · EducationFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC: $7,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$249,850Human Services$34,050Philanthropy$21,000Animals$20,000Health$18,500Education$10,000Housing & Shelter$7,500

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 budgetMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $34,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRESNO BUSINESS COUNCIL: $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $24,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFresnos Chaffee Zoo Corporation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY CAREGIVER RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTree Fresno: $6,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCIVIC EDUCATION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFoundation for Fresno Unified Students: $5,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE CENTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley Public Television Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOUTING AMERICA SEQUOIA COUNCIL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINES' MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $50 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.

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.

Educational Employees…The Edward M and Jean…Briscoe Family Founda…Leon S Peters Foundat…The Harlan Family Fou…Bonner Family Foundat…Resnick FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Maxwell FoundationWayne H Towne Family …Agriland FoundationThe Fansler Foundation
Educational Employees Credit UnionCA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Educational Employees Credit Union · The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inc · Briscoe Family Foundation · Leon S Peters Foundation · The Harlan Family Foundation · Bonner Family Foundation · Resnick Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Maxwell Foundation · Wayne H Towne Family Foundation · Agriland Foundation · The Fansler 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 Richard & Althea Johanson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richard & Althea Johanson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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