· Private foundation
The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 111 grants below total $3,057,270 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,576,448 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $519,178 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k80 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Centerlink Inc | $200,000 |
| Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights | $105,000 |
| Proteus Fund Inc | $100,000 |
| St Andrews School of Delaware Inc | $100,000 |
| Vermont Community Foundation | $100,000 |
| Telluride Foundation | $100,000 |
| North Star Fund, Inc. | $75,000 |
| Vermont Community Foundation | $75,000 |
| Telluride Mountain School Inc | $70,000 |
| Vermont Community Foundation | $50,000 |
| Proteus Fund Inc | $50,000 |
| Movement Advancement Project Inc | $50,000 |
| GLSEN, Inc. | $50,000 |
| Preservation Trust of Vermont | $50,000 |
| Tides Foundation | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $686k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
141 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
CENTERLINK INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +94%- TMTELLURIDE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $771k · revenue +28%
- BCBETHANY COLLEGE6× · 2017–2023 · $608k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- GFGroundswell Fundone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -25%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $75k
- FSFair Share Education Fundone grant, 2017 · $63k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The transgender legal defense and education fund is committed to ending discrimination based on gender identity and expression, and to achieving equality for transgender people through public education, test-case litigation, direct legal…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
Ultraviolet education fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Untermyer Gardens Conservancy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
219 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. 219 of the 271 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTERLINK INC ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GLSEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
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- Who funds GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds LGBTQ Victory Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE ENGINE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
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- Who funds AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
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- Who funds FUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds The Pinhead Institute ↗
- Who funds Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER (SMRC) ↗
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- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Telluride Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Dalton Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · The Vermont Community Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Ebb Point Foundation- Blackrock · New Venture Fund · Just For Kids Foundation Inc · Gill Foundation
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 Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore 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.
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
- The Gem Project Inc — 27% of income from government
- Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
- Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc — 17% of income from government
- Vermont Law School — 14% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Centerlink Inc — 12% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
- St Andrew's School of Delaware Inc — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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