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The Robert S Johnson and Sharon L 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.

$2k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$65k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Robert S Johnson and Sharon L Johnson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $623 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentCrime & LegalEmploymentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$2k50%
FY20244$2k50%
FY20236$3k33%
FY20228$2k75%
FY20215$75060%
FY202011$3k82%
FY20198$3k63%
FY20185$3k80%
83% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$10kFood & Nutrition$2kArts & Culture$1kInternational$1kHuman Services$800Environment$600Employment$550Education$505Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
OR
CA
AZ
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robert S Johnson and Sharon L Johnson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $1,933 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFarestart: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArizona State University Foundation for a New American University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds Lilith Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brigid Alliance Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOutside In: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYouth on Their Own: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Relief Teams: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Food Bank Network: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTucson Family Food Project Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKind Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTucson Botanical Gardens: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Food Bank: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership for Safety and Justice: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Robert S Johnson and Sharon L Johnson Foundation

How much does The Robert S Johnson and Sharon L Johnson Foundation give?
The Robert S Johnson and Sharon L Johnson Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $2,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Robert S Johnson and Sharon L Johnson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Food & Nutrition (10%), Arts & Culture (5%).
Who are The Robert S Johnson and Sharon L Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Food Bank Inc ($2k), Farestart ($550), Direct Relief ($500).
Does The Robert S Johnson and Sharon L Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robert S Johnson and Sharon L Johnson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Robert S Johnson and Sharon L Johnson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Robert S Johnson and Sharon L Johnson Foundation based?
The Robert S Johnson and Sharon L Johnson Foundation is based in AZ.

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 36 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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