Karl M Johnson Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742554281
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Jackson, WY, USA
- Phone
- 3077332772
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,121,157
- Expenses
- $2,235,297
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Karl M Johnson Foundation is a nonprofit. Location: Jackson, WY. EIN 742554281. Tax year 2025 Form 990-PF reports $6.1M revenue and $2.2M expenses.
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 58 grants totaling $474,906. The stated grant purposes included donation, scholarship, and ride and dine donation, plus 2 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 90% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and the filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 92
- Cost Efficiency: 21
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 94
- Endowment Health: 64
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 91.6%; rating input score 92; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 21.2%; rating input score 21; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 17 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Missing
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Fail
- 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: Pass
- 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: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 19.5; rating input score 64; 64th 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: 91.6% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 64th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 62 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.
- High — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: Excess business holdings not reported.