California · Private foundation
Walter S Johnson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2024
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $588,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 58
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $132M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Walter S Johnson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $805k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 52 | $5.1M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $4.9M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $5.6M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $6.5M | 56% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $4.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Burton Advocates for Youth | $1,700,000 | 5 | 29% |
| Foundation for California Community Colleges | $1,080,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | $900,000 | 5 | n/a |
| New Ways to Work Inc | $800,000 | 4 | 68% |
| On the Move | $800,000 | 4 | 2% |
| iFoster Inc | $650,000 | 4 | 4% |
| University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation | $600,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lutheran Social Services of Northern California | $515,000 | 4 | 1% |
| California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association | $400,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Foster Kinship | $400,000 | 3 | 8% |
Show all 93 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Walter S Johnson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 89 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Horizons · Tipping Point Community · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Community Initiatives · East Bay Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · John Burton Advocates for Youth · The James Irvine Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma
How this is measured
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About Walter S Johnson Foundation
- How much does Walter S Johnson Foundation give?
- Walter S Johnson Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $5,335,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 58 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Walter S Johnson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (41%), Human Services (19%), Education (14%).
- Who are Walter S Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: John Burton Advocates for Youth ($1.7M), Foundation for California Community Colleges ($1.1M), Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education ($900k).
- Does Walter S Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walter S Johnson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Walter S Johnson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Horizons, Tipping Point Community, Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Walter S Johnson Foundation based?
- Walter S Johnson Foundation is based in CA.
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