· Private foundation
George R Johnson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $886k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $935k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OCOEE REGION | $180,000 |
| LEE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MUSEUM CENTER AT 5IVE POINTS | $100,000 |
| YMCA | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATIO | $100,000 |
| TENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN | $75,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY CENTER | $55,000 |
| CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIESCHILDREN | $50,000 |
| LIFE BRIDGES | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATT | $40,000 |
| THE CARING PLACE | $40,000 |
| YMCA | $35,000 |
| THE HOPE CENTER INC | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +30% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
118 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TWTENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $550k · revenue +49%
- LULEE UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2025 · $400k · revenue +3%
- TCTHE CARING PLACE8× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +326%
Funded once
- SHSISKIN HOSPITAL FOR REHABILITATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS - GORDMURRWHITone grant, 2021 · $83k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NW GEORGIAone grant, 2019 · $80k
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.
To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…
Family promise of greater chattanooga's mission is to provide help for homeless families with children be housed and self-sufficient.
Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
To be the voice for children who have been victims of abuse and/or neglect. Our vision is to serve every child in the Cheaha Region by providing them with a caring and competent trained volunteer.
Chattanooga design studio seeks to elevate the quality of life for all citizens through guidance, collaboration, innovation, and education that promotes livable, accessible, walkable, and humane urban design.
Legal aid of east tennessee provides legal representation, legal education, and other civil legal services for the low-income population in our community through advocacy of all types.
The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.
Volunteer East Tennessee inspires service by equipping organizations and mobilizing volunteers to connect with one another and strengthen communities.
Providing services to clients to assist in preventing homelessness, training partner organizations on reporting system and reporting to governments, statistical information.
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
How this is measured
80 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. 80 of the 207 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CARING PLACE ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE EXHIBITION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bethel Bible Village ↗
- Who funds ON POINT ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds Creative Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CASA CORRIDOR OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds MOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY CLEVELAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE OCOEE REGION ↗
- Who funds CITY FIELDS ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST GEORGIAINC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LOUDON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George R Johnson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George R Johnson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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