Tennessee · Private foundation
Milton and Denice 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.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 52
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $3.9M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $1.4M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $1.3M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $1.2M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $1.2M | 69% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodmont Christian Church | $3,300,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Harding Academy | $1,005,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Pencil Foundation | $520,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Abe's Garden | $400,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Nashville Rescue Mission | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Frist Art Museum | $165,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nashville Zoo Inc | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Enchiridion Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn
How this is measured
Compare Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation
- How much does Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation give?
- Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $3,930,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Education (20%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Woodmont Christian Church ($3.3M), Harding Academy ($1.0M), Pencil Foundation ($520k).
- Does Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.
- Where is Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation based?
- Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation is based in TN.
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