Edward C Johnson Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 046108344
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2024
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6036814291
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,106,414
- Expenses
- $17,364,131
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Edward C Johnson Fund is a nonprofit. Location: Boston, MA. EIN 046108344. Tax year 2024 Form 990-PF reports $84.1M revenue and $17.4M expenses.
What it reported funding in 2024
The foundation reported 42 grants totaling $16,455,700. The stated grant purposes included property care; buildings; renovation, endowment, and installations (arts & culture), plus 14 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 63% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 96% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
STRONG - The filing identifies who received its grants and a large share of spending goes to grants. A relatively small share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 51
- Cost Efficiency: 95
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 92
- Endowment Health: 82
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 50.5%; rating input score 51; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 16 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 84
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Fail
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Fail
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Fail
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 34.26; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: 50.5% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 82th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 50 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Grant Deployment: Grant deployment ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: 3 of 19 not reported.