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Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery

Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,694 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($16,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$96k
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$23k
Grants received
$78k
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%

Against its field

Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery has grown faster than half of the 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve11.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($84k) Expenses 100 ($71k) Net assets 100 ($16k)2018 Revenue 166 ($139k) Expenses 196 ($138k) Net assets 94 ($15k)2019 Revenue 139 ($117k) Expenses 160 ($113k) Net assets 119 ($19k)2020 Revenue 133 ($112k) Expenses 128 ($91k) Net assets 279 ($43k)2021 Revenue 138 ($116k) Expenses 126 ($89k) Net assets 454 ($70k)2022 Revenue 154 ($129k) Expenses 159 ($112k) Net assets 563 ($87k)2024 Revenue 77 ($64k) Expenses 128 ($90k) Net assets 418 ($65k)2025 Revenue 115 ($96k) Expenses 119 ($84k) Net assets 500 ($78k)
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Revenue (115)Expenses (119)Net assets (500)Peer revenue range
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $17k.

Funder
'20
'22
total
funders
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery.

73%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100%broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery?
Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,694 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($16,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $22,694 in grants to Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery.
Who is the largest funder of Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery?
Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $16,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Cheyne C Johnston Foundation For Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing