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Earl & Margery Johnson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$177k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 24
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$458k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Earl & Margery Johnson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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
FY2025still arriving8$177k38%
FY20246$113k67%
FY20231$75k0%
FY20224$37k50%
FY20216$17k33%
FY202014$64k64%
FY201924$36kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$291kReligion$60kHealth$40kYouth Development$27kArts & Culture$25kHuman Services$25kRecreation & Sports$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saint Marys School$202,00040%
Holy Trinity Church$60,0002n/a
Virginia Episcopal School$41,5002n/a
Higher Ed Works$25,00014%
Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy$20,00020%
I Have a Dream Foundation$20,00020%
YWCA Boulder County$15,0001n/a
Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra$15,00011%
Nash Autism Seeking Hope$15,00027%
The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)$10,00010%
Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of Earl & Margery Johnson Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saint Marys School$202,00040%
Holy Trinity Church$60,0002n/a
Virginia Episcopal School$41,5002n/a
Higher Ed Works$25,00014%
Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy$20,00020%
I Have a Dream Foundation$20,00020%
YWCA Boulder County$15,0001n/a
Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra$15,00011%
Nash Autism Seeking Hope$15,00027%
The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)$10,00010%
Alliance Medical Ministry Inc$8,60020%
North Carolina Zoological Society Inc$6,00010%
Foundation of Hope for Research and Treatment of Mental Illness$6,00010%
Milburnie Foundation$5,0001n/a
Harvest of Hope Pantry$5,00010%
Unc Health Foundation Inc$3,00020%
The Society of the Cincinnati$1,00010%
Zeta Psi Educational Foundation$1,00010%
Happenings Inc$1,00021%
The Rex Healthcare Foundation Inc$80010%
Figure Eight Island Church Services Inc$2002n/a
National Geographic Society$15010%
American Cancer Society Inc$10010%

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Earl & Margery Johnson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSaint Marys School: $202,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHigher Ed Works: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetDorothea Dix Park Conservancy: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetI Have a Dream Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoulder Philharmonic Orchestra: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNash Autism Seeking Hope: $15,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance Medical Ministry Inc: $8,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Carolina Zoological Society Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation of Hope for Research and Treatment of Mental Illness: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHarvest of Hope Pantry: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnc Health Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Cincinnati: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZeta Psi Educational Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHappenings Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Rex Healthcare Foundation Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Geographic Society: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $100 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 18.

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · Hillsdale Fund · North Carolina Community Foundation · John R & Carolyn J Maness Family Foundation - C/O Eton Advisors L P · Chaucer Charitable Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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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About Earl & Margery Johnson Family Foundation

How much does Earl & Margery Johnson Family Foundation give?
Earl & Margery Johnson Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $176,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Earl & Margery Johnson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Religion (12%), Health (8%).
Who are Earl & Margery Johnson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Saint Marys School ($202k), Holy Trinity Church ($60k), Virginia Episcopal School ($42k).
Does Earl & Margery Johnson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Earl & Margery Johnson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Earl & Margery Johnson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation, Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Earl & Margery Johnson Family Foundation based?
Earl & Margery Johnson Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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