Johnson Street Foundation

About Johnson Street Foundation

The Johnson Street Foundation’s clearest pattern is its repeated support for early childhood and caregiver-focused programs, alongside separate grants for voting rights and immigrant services. In the recent grants list, that shows up in multi-year funding for The Child Center of NY, the Arab-American Family Support Center, and University Settlement Society of New York, with purposes tied to dyadic work, caregiver-child bonding, and the Butterflies program. The foundation also backed the Center for Victims of Torture for Casa Alitas psychosocial services and the International Rescue Committee for attachment vitamins services in multiple cities. Its giving is mostly program-specific and often renewal-based, with several organizations appearing across 2023, 2024, and 2025. The grant amounts in the recent list frequently sit at $100,000 to $150,000, with a few much larger DAF-related contributions routed through Vanguard Charitable. That mix suggests a structure that combines direct grants to nonprofit operators with donor-advised fund activity. Across the list, the foundation supports a narrow set of recurring issues rather than a broad portfolio, and the funded work often serves infants, young children, caregivers, immigrant families, and communities affected by civic exclusion or family-system stress.

What Johnson Street Foundation Funds

In early childhood and caregiver support, the foundation gave $125,000 to the Arab-American Family Support Center for a caregiver-child bonding circle and $100,000 to The Child Center of NY for dyadic work with a peer advocate. It also funded University Settlement Society of New York at $105,000 for the Butterflies program in 2023, 2024, and 2025. In home-visiting and infant-family health, it supported Sunset Park Health Council Inc with $150,000 for Healthy Steps Sunset Park in 2024 and another $150,000 for Healthy Steps in 2025. The Brookdale Hospital Medical Center also received $85,000 for the Healthy Steps program. For immigrant and asylum-seeker services, the Center for Victims of Torture received $100,000 for work with Casa Alitas in 2023 and $100,000 for Casa Alitas psychosocial services in 2024 and 2025. The International Rescue Committee received $100,000 and $115,000 grants for attachment vitamins services in multiple locations.

How Johnson Street Foundation Gives