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Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$192k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
57%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 29
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$2.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’22’23
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving28$192k21%
FY202323$164k57%
FY20227$205k43%
FY202023$148k9%
FY201929$189k21%
FY201824$161k25%
FY201727$162kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
WV
VA
MD
KS
NC
SC
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
James Madison University$102,5007n/a
Liberty University Inc$34,50060%
American University$32,00060%
Longwood University$18,0005n/a
Shenandoah University$17,00060%
Pennsylvania State University$16,0004n/a
Georgetown University$15,00030%
Emory University$15,0003n/a
Brigham Young University$13,0003n/a
Virginia Wesleyan University$12,00040%
Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
James Madison University$102,5007n/a
Liberty University Inc$34,50060%
American University$32,00060%
Longwood University$18,0005n/a
Shenandoah University$17,00060%
Pennsylvania State University$16,0004n/a
Georgetown University$15,00030%
Emory University$15,0003n/a
Brigham Young University$13,0003n/a
Virginia Wesleyan University$12,00040%
Florida State University$10,0002n/a
Swarthmore College$10,00020%
Elon University$9,50030%
Benedictine College$8,00020%
Dickinson College$8,00020%
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc$7,00020%
Eastern Mennonite University$5,00010%
Marist University$4,00010%
Bridgewater College$4,00010%
University of Evansville$3,00010%
Wilmington College$3,00010%
University of Pittsburgh$2,50010%
Cedar Crest College$2,50010%
Roanoke College$2,50010%
Ferrum College$2,00010%
Regent University$2,00010%
Howard Community College$2,0001n/a
Delaware Valley University$2,00010%
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($857k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLiberty University Inc: $34,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican University: $32,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetShenandoah University: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Wesleyan University: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSwarthmore College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBenedictine College: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDickinson College: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Mennonite University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarist University: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridgewater College: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Evansville: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilmington College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCedar Crest College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoanoke College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFerrum College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRegent University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelaware Valley University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDuquesne University of the Holy Spirit: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hughes Memorial HomeVA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hughes Memorial Home · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · John William Rollison Jr Education Fund · Lonza L Rush Tes Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Interfaith America · Ibm International Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation

How much does Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation give?
Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $192,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: James Madison University ($103k), Liberty University Inc ($35k), American University ($32k).
Does Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hughes Memorial Home, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Folds of Honor Foundation.
Where is Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation based?
Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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