Skip to content

Texas · Private foundation

Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$25,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$990,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 38
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $311k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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 arriving7$1.3M43%
FY20236$354k50%
FY202221$444k48%
FY202138$359k45%
FY202037$856k38%
FY201928$286kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.9MHuman Services$603kReligion$306kArts & Culture$219kEducation$216kHealth$176kYouth Development$109kFood & Nutrition$62kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IN
CA
NE
MO
LA
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hands to Hands Community Fund$572,500532%
First Christian Church$115,1445n/a
Young Life$106,33440%
Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc$67,88050%
Texas Tech Foundation Inc$57,38020%
Fort Worth Country Day School Inc$48,65740%
Project Back to School$45,00048%
Texas Tech Alumni Association$36,50031%
Umc Foundation$20,00030%
Idalou Volunteer Fire Department$17,5002n/a
Show all 36 grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHands to Hands Community Fund: $572,500 over 5y, 32% of budgetYoung Life: $106,334 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Wichita Falls Inc: $67,880 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Tech Foundation Inc: $57,380 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFort Worth Country Day School Inc: $48,657 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetProject Back to School: $45,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetTexas Tech Alumni Association: $36,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUmc Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCasa of the South Plains Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAgriculture Heritage Museum Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTexas Future Farmers of America Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Health Center of Lubbock Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Junior League of Wichita Falls Inc: $9,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetGary Patterson Foundation: $8,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNorth Texas Rehabilitation Center Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Girls and Boys Ranch: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWest Texas Football Classic Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Casa: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrue North Retreats: $5,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBand of Barrows: $5,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetHumane Society of Wichita County: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwest Texas Council of Boy Scouts of America: $2,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCasa Manana Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc: $1,167 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWild Sheep Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOlney Volunteer Fire Department: $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 30.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

J S Bridwell FoundationTX24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J S Bridwell Foundation · Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Roy and Gretta Hogan Foundation · The Fain Foundation · James N McCoy Foundation · Perkins-Prothro Foundation · Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hazel & Henry S Grace Foundation · Kadane Foundation · Guinn Foundation Inc

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.

Compare Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joe & Nan Johnson Family 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 Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation

How much does Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation give?
Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $1,333,889 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 38 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (51%), Human Services (17%), Religion (8%).
Who are Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Hands to Hands Community Fund ($573k), First Christian Church ($115k), Young Life ($106k).
Does Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include J S Bridwell Foundation, Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax.
Where is Joe & Nan Johnson Family Foundation based?
Joe & Nan 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 76 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Joe & Nan Johnson Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph