· Private foundation
Mg and Lillie a Johnson Foundation Inc
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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+8 grants · $6.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Citizens Medical Center | $3,259,200 |
| Victoria College | $1,327,000 |
| Wharton County Junior College | $562,000 |
| Jackson County Hospital District | $409,173 |
| University of Houston-Victoria | $350,000 |
| The Crisis Center | $350,000 |
| Northside Center, Inc. | $300,000 |
| Food Bank of the Golden Crescent | $290,000 |
| Billy T. Cattan Recovery Outreach Center | $200,000 |
| Lavaca Medical Center | $200,000 |
| OakBend Medical Center | $110,000 |
| Friends of Elder Citizens | $100,000 |
| Refugio County Memorial Hospital | $100,000 |
| Friends of the Port O'Connor Library | $100,000 |
| Berclair Volunteer Fire Department | $99,900 |
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 (FY21–21, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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.
28 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $917k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VCVictoria College4× · 2021–2024 · $6.0M
- CMCitizens Medical Center3× · 2022–2024 · $5.5M
- WCWharton County Junior College4× · 2021–2024 · $2.5M
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONone grant, 2021 · $2.3M
- ECEl Campo Memorial Hospitalone grant, 2022 · $1.5M
- ECEL CAMPO MEMORIAL HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue -29%
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.
Volunteer fire department
Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.
To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.
Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.
Volunteer fire department organized to contain fires in and around the city of tolar, county of hood, texas
Volunteer fire department
Provides protection of property and preservation of life from and during fire or other emergencies within the area of its operation in hood and johnson counties, texas. also, provides rescue and various other emergency services in the…
Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.
Multi-texas city and county fire department and ambulance service
To provide fire suppression, fire investigation, and search and rescue services to the citizens of clyde and the surrounding rural areas of callahan co., tx.
Volunteer fire department for rural community centered in industry, tx
Fire and rescue services for the community of hitchcock, texas.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 107 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
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.
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 Kathryn O'Connor Foundation · The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Gulf Coast Medical Foundation · Dickson-Allen Foundation · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mg and Lillie a Johnson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mg and Lillie a Johnson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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