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THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION
THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,035,850 to it, the largest being ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ($579,916). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $855M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $12.5B
What The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation does
Programs
General outreach & support: share research results, support policy and communications efforts that create a future where health is not a privilege but a right.
$15,095,830 spentHealthy communities: work toward a future where every community is a place where all people can flourish and reach their best possible health and wellbeing.
$11,974,781 spentHealthy children and families: programs that ensure parents and caregivers have the resources needed to foster healthy development and raise thriving children.
$9,463,026 spentOther activities: fund and share evidence-based, nonpartisan reports that inform health and health equity policies at all levels of government and in communities.
$28,149,355 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $13.2B to $14.8B (+12%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Richard E Besser
President & CEO
Board chair
Kathryn S Fuller
Trustee chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $54k → $163k.
2 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION’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
THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 65% · 2019 51% · 2020 54% · 2021 52% · 2022 89% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
18% of THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is 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.
Against its field
THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 153 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 153 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $70k on record.
- DEDICATED$70k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,035,850 to it, the largest being ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ($579,916). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,035,850 in grants to THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION?
- ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $579,916 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing