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· Private foundation

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$623M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3,093
Grants FY2024still arriving
52
States reached
$12M
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.

Health$1.2BCivil Rights$401MCommunity Improvement$341MPhilanthropy$325MEducation$315MPublic Benefit$280MSocial Science$215MHuman Services$157MOther$0
02FY2024 · 3093 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k909 grants · $2.0M
  • $10k–50k716 grants · $19M
  • $50k–250k798 grants · $104M
  • $250k+670 grants · $498M
$40,000
Median grant
52
States reached
$13.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES$12,152,000
COMMUNITY CATALYST$8,620,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN POPULATION HEALTH INSTITUTE$7,437,248
VOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND$5,817,555
FAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI STATE CONSORTIUM INC$5,220,000
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE$5,220,000
BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY$4,500,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$4,242,404
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$4,094,899
CENTER FOR BLACK HEALTH AND EQUITY$4,000,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$3,550,416
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$3,408,828
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$3,348,225
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE$3,262,500
JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH$3,188,657
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $51.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $750k → 22%ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS: $720k → 5%FAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI STATE CONSORTIUM INC: $5.2M → 17%PIVOT FUND: $675k → 9%NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $1.7M → 16%CHILD TRENDS INCORPORATED: $1.4M → 8%Family Values Work a Multi State Cons: $1.0M → 17%SisterSong Inc: $1.5M → 13%CHILD TRENDS INCORPORATED: $763k → 8%FAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI STATE CONSORTIUM INC: $1.0M → 17%SISTERSONG INC: $1.4M → 13%FAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI STATE CONS: $1.0M → 17%Family Values Work a Multi State Cons: $855k → 17%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $1.0M → 21%Child Trends: $1.2M → 8%Child Trends: $711k → 8%Child Trends: $701k → 8%Southern Partners Fund: $3.0M → 13%Zero to Three: $1.8M → 14%YOUNG WOMENS FREEDOM CTR: $674k → 14%ZERO TO THREE: $1.8M → 14%Zero to Three: $1.6M → 14%Zero to Three: $1.4M → 14%National Council of YMCAs of the USA: $8.1M → 14%National Council of YMCAs of the USA: $5.7M → 14%Zero to Three: $1.2M → 14%Zero to Three: $863k → 14%ZERO TO THREE: $810k → 14%LIVING CITIES INC: $1.0M → 14%National Allian for Hisp Hlt: $671k → 14%ARC OF THE US: $720k → 14%ARC OF THE US: $675k → 14%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

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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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4B · 1492 repeat orgs$319M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

1492 repeat relationships: 467 still active in FY2024, 1025 since wound down; 247 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1492
203

Total granted

$3.4B
$131M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+14%

Still filing today

40%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188M 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
HealthEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CATALYST INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $91M · revenue +31% · 81% of their budget
  • THE URBAN INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $69M · revenue +51%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $68M · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5.0M
  • UI
    UNIDOS INVESTMENT FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +6%
  • MR
    MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $4.0M · revenue -53%
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.

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University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education
2
Institute for Public Health Innovation

Iphi develops multi-sector partnerships and innovative solutions to improve the public's health and well-being across maryland, virginia and the district of columbia. our work strengthens health systems and policy, enhances conditions that…

Human Services
3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

Highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on u.s. foreign policy

International
4
Arbor Research Collaborative for

To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.

Health
5
National Council of Jewish Women

Inspired by jewish values, the national council of jewish women is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families, and by safeguarding…

Community Improvement
6
The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc

Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.

Arts & Culture
7
Npr Foundation
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8
United States Naval Institute

To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.

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9
The Common Application Inc

The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.

Education
10
University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education
11
Witness Inc

Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…

International
12
National Constitution Center

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to teaching about the Constitution.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc; the most unlike its peers is English Language Institute in China. 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

871 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. 871 of the 2,000 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.

147
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
139
Early backer (in before they grew)
864/871
Grantees still filing
534/871
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+147 more: $1,434,416,495 · Other+147 moreCOMMUNITY CATALYST INC: $90,895,972 · HealthCOMMUNITY CATA…American Heart Association Inc: $68,263,589 · HealthAmerican Heart…ACADEMYHEALTH: $22,245,471 · HealthACADEMYHEALTHNATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC: $17,811,305 · HealthNATIONAL HEALT…Public Health Institute: $14,538,751 · HealthCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $13,532,364 · HealthVOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND: $12,541,256 · HealthPublic Health Accreditation Board: $10,894,931 · Health+9 more: $59,567,599 · Health+9 moreTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $53,210,812 · Community ImprovementPOLICYLINK: $24,453,901 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $20,697,866 · Community ImprovementTHE REINVESTMENT FUND INC: $19,176,729 · Community ImprovementRACE FORWARD: $11,769,100 · Community ImprovementIDEOORG: $11,659,346 · Community ImprovementPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $8,905,000 · Community ImprovementPROSPERITY NOW: $7,100,704 · Community Improvement+3 more: $14,182,186 · Community ImprovementTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $69,396,104 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $24,216,195 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $19,100,402 · Social ScienceECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $6,677,500 · Social ScienceTHE ULI FOUNDATION: $6,134,520 · Social ScienceJUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,775,833 · Social ScienceROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $31,150,637 · PhilanthropyThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $20,488,911 · PhilanthropyGroundswell Fund: $12,802,500 · PhilanthropyFANNIE E RIPPEL FOUNDATION: $11,551,185 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $10,631,924 · PhilanthropyPrinceton Area Community Foundation Inc: $7,996,333 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS IN HEALTH: $6,246,538 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $5,192,630 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE PHILANTHROPY INC: $5,004,038 · PhilanthropyUNIDOS INVESTMENT FUND INC: $5,000,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $4,918,063 · PhilanthropyCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $60,277,250 · Public BenefitChangeLab Solutions: $26,930,417 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $16,529,856 · Public BenefitThe Rand Corporation: $10,729,363 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc: $4,135,203 · Public BenefitNEW VENTURE FUND: $87,685,191 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $11,990,550 · EnvironmentHEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM: $4,933,823 · Environment
Other$1,434,416,495Health$310,291,238Community Improvement$171,155,644Social Science$131,300,554Philanthropy$120,982,759Public Benefit$118,602,089Environment$104,609,564

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY CATALYST INC: $90,895,972 over 8y, 81% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $87,685,191 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $69,396,104 over 8y, 11% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $68,263,589 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $60,277,250 over 8y, 32% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $53,210,812 over 8y, 16% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $31,150,637 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetChangeLab Solutions: $26,930,417 over 8y, 61% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $25,973,515 over 6y, 17% of budgetPOLICYLINK: $24,453,901 over 8y, 19% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $24,216,195 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetACADEMYHEALTH: $22,245,471 over 8y, 34% of budgetTRUST FOR AMERICAS HEALTH: $21,612,270 over 8y, 91% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $20,697,866 over 8y, 45% of budgetThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $20,488,911 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetTHE REINVESTMENT FUND INC: $19,176,729 over 8y, 14% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $19,100,402 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetNATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC: $17,811,305 over 8y, 43% of budgetLOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND: $17,342,225 over 8y, 12% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $16,529,856 over 8y, 25% of budgetNational 4-H Council: $15,504,212 over 7y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC: $15,099,590 over 8y, 36% of budgetPublic Health Institute: $14,538,751 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $14,109,275 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetNational Council of YMCAs of the USA: $14,105,500 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $13,532,364 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $13,001,494 over 4y, 28% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $12,802,500 over 5y, 22% of budgetAmerican Nonsmokers Rights Foundation: $12,723,501 over 8y, 56% of budgetVOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND: $12,541,256 over 4y, 40% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $11,990,550 over 7y, 20% of budgetRACE FORWARD: $11,769,100 over 5y, 20% of budgetIDEOORG: $11,659,346 over 4y, 41% of budgetFANNIE E RIPPEL FOUNDATION: $11,551,185 over 8y, 46% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $11,514,526 over 7y, 25% of budgetFAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM: $11,484,265 over 5y, 76% of budgetZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES: $10,943,289 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $10,899,703 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetPublic Health Accreditation Board: $10,894,931 over 6y, 34% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $10,729,363 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $10,631,924 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $10,536,859 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetFEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INC: $10,498,063 over 6y, 38% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,421,270 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $10,255,916 over 4y, 76% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $10,101,957 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $9,030,000 over 7y, 26% of budgetThe Center for Black Health and Equity: $8,949,559 over 3y, 36% 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 COMMUNITY CATALYST INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
  • Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds ChangeLab Solutions ↗
  • Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
  • Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMYHEALTH ↗
  • Who funds TRUST FOR AMERICAS HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Pew Charitable Trusts ↗
  • Who funds THE REINVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
  • Who funds National 4-H Council ↗

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.

Princeton Area Commun…Freedom Together Foun…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Geraldine R Dodge Fou…Curtis W McGraw Found…The Burke Foundation …George H and Estelle …Laura and John Arnold…The Commonwealth FundPseg Foundation IncWellspring Philanthro…Citizens Philanthropi…
Princeton Area Community Foundation IncNJ72.8× affinity273 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Freedom Together Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Burke Foundation Inc · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · Laura and John Arnold Foundation · The Commonwealth Fund · Pseg Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc

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 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • National Institute for Children's Health Quality Inc: 100% of income from government
  • New Brunswick Tomorrow: 74% of income from government
  • Child Trends Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Community Catalyst Inc: 15% of income from government
  • New Growth Innovation Network: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • National Association of Community Health Centers Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • The Housing Partnership Network Inc: 10% of income from government
  • New Jersey Future Inc: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.

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 2000 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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