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Marvin a and Lillie M Johns Schlr Fd at a glance

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Marvin a and Lillie M Johns Schlr Fd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$71k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$137k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALEXIS LEMMINGS CO UNIV OF GEORGIA$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
KATIE DILLARD CO BERRY COLLEGE$1,000
COLBY EVANS CO GEORGIA HIGHLAND COLLEGE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 23%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 23%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA: $1k → 12%DALTON STATE COLLEGE: $2k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA: $1k → 13%SHORTER UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $1k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $3k → 27%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA: $1k → 12%DALTON STATE COLLEGE: $1k → 13%SHORTER UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $1k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $2k → 27%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%DILLARD STRICKLIN - DALTON STATE COLLEGE: $1k → 13%GEORGIA NORTHWESTERN TECH COLLEGE: $2k → 15%MIDDLE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $1k → 27%GEORGIA NORTHWESTERN TECH COLLEGE: $1k → 15%ALEXIS LEMMINGS CO UNIV OF GEORGIA: $1k → 27%GEORGIA HIGHLANDS COLLEGE: $1k → 15%COLBY EVANS CO GEORGIA HIGHLAND COLLEGE: $1k → 15%BERRY COLLEGE: $2k → 15%KATIE DILLARD CO BERRY COLLEGE: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46k · 13 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$46k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+36%

Still filing today

15%
7%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KS
    KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $6k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5k

Funded once

  • BC
    BERRY COLLEGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +36%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
2/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $5,980 · OtherKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $5,865 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIAIndividual grant recipient: $5,175 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $3,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $3,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $3,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDALTON STATE COLLEGE: $2,740 · OtherGEORGIA NORTHWESTERN TECH COLLEGE: $2,740 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA: $2,365 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,100 · Other+18 more: $22,205 · Other+18 moreSHORTER UNIVERSITY: $3,625 · EducationSHORTER UNIV…BERRY COLLEGE INC: $2,125 · EducationBERRY COLLEG…THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationTHE CORPORAT…
Other$62,870Education$7,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHORTER UNIVERSITY: $3,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC: $2,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 SHORTER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marvin a and Lillie M Johns Schlr Fd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin a and Lillie M Johns Schlr Fd. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 32 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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