· Private foundation
Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH | $24,000 |
| UNIV OF MARY WASHINGTON | $19,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $18,000 |
| LORD FAIRFAX COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $13,500 |
| LIBERTY UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| HOLLINS COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIV | $5,000 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SWARTHMORE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $4,500 |
| HAMPTON UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LULIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC6× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +75%
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +26%
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- LFLORD FAIRFAX COMMUNITY COLLone grant, 2023 · $19k
- UUNC-WILMINGTONone grant, 2023 · $7k
- NVNORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $6k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
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How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗
- Who funds Eastern Mennonite University ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alice M & William E Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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