Tennessee · Private foundation
George R Johnson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 76
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $180,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 63 to 78
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations George R Johnson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $241k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 74 | $1.9M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $1.7M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $1.4M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 67 | $1.7M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $1.6M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $1.6M | 26% |
| FY2019 | 69 | $1.5M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 78 | $1.7M | 37% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee Wesleyan University | $550,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lee University | $400,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Caring Place | $350,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Tri-State Exhibition Center | $280,500 | 3 | 13% |
| Bethel Bible Village | $260,000 | 9 | 2% |
| On Point | $250,000 | 9 | 3% |
| University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Chattanooga | $200,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Creative Discovery Museum | $187,775 | 9 | 1% |
| Lookout Mountain Conservancy | $180,000 | 9 | 4% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 121 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget George R Johnson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Tucker Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Hamico Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County
How this is measured
Compare George R Johnson Family Foundation with peer funders
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About George R Johnson Family Foundation
- How much does George R Johnson Family Foundation give?
- George R Johnson Family Foundation reported 76 grants totaling $1,903,110 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 78 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does George R Johnson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (19%), Human Services (15%), Education (15%).
- Who are George R Johnson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tennessee Wesleyan University ($550k), Lee University ($400k), The Caring Place ($350k).
- Does George R Johnson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George R Johnson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as George R Johnson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc, Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation, Tucker Foundation.
- Where is George R Johnson Family Foundation based?
- George R Johnson Family Foundation is based in TN.
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