· Private foundation
Larry and Michael 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of LARRY AND MICHAEL JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHRIST | $70,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| CANOPY MS CHILDREN'S HOME SERVICES | $70,000 |
| MS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| MIND CENTER | $8,500 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF MISSISSIPPI | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI METROPOLITAN BALLET | $5,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI JUNE BUGS | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| GALLOWAY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 49% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI CHARTERED9× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +132%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2022 · $155k · revenue +57%
- SCSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- MSMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -39%
- MSMISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +55%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote mississippi arts and entertainment.
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
The foundation was established to support the mississippi museum of natural science though receiving, maintaining and distributing funds exclusively for the benefit of the museum.
Support the research activities of the university of mississippi medical center
To provide the first pediatric skilled nursing facility in the state of mississippi that not only helps children and families transition from the hospital back to their homes, but also provides long-term care for some of our state's most…
The organization provides funding for medical research, educational programs for physicians and others as well as educational assistance for medical students. in addition, the organization provides grants to medical professionals whose…
The mission is to create memorable learning experiences through the joy of play, in hands-on exhibits and programs. we accomplish this mission by reaching out to the mid-south school children, families, and the tourist visitor.
The mississippi sids and infant safety alliance, inc. provides support services to families who are or may be touched by the tragedy of sudden infant death syndrome, sudden unexplained infant death and any other infant loss. the alliance…
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
Mississippi gulf coast chamber of commerce, inc., a mississippi non-profit corporation (the "chamber") connects, informs, advocates and develops. the chamber is a membership organization that fosters leadership and the advancement of the…
To improve the well-being of mississippi's children through the design, promotion and improvement of systems and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered and the most unlike its peers is Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI CHARTERED ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MISSISSIPPI CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THACKER MOUNTAIN ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI METROPOLITAN BALLET ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Ergon Foundation Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Century Club Charities Inc · Feild Co-Operative Association · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Wesley a Caldwell Foundation Inc · Telos Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Larry and Michael Johnson Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.