Ohio · Private foundation
Morse and Betty 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.
- $210k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Morse and Betty Johnson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 | 22 | $210k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $212k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $336k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $228k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $188k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $182k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation | $80,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Tregaron Conservancy | $75,003 | 6 | 4% |
| The Seven Hills School | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bright Beginnings Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Emma Willard School | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Some Inc | $59,062 | 5 | 0% |
| Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C | $40,000 | 5 | n/a |
| The Nature Foundation at Wintergreen | $35,000 | 4 | 2% |
| DC Bilingual Public Charter School | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Know Theatre of Cincinnati | $25,000 | 2 | 2% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($677k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morse and Betty 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.
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How this is measured
Compare Morse and Betty Johnson Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Morse and Betty Johnson Family Foundation
- How much does Morse and Betty Johnson Family Foundation give?
- Morse and Betty Johnson Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $210,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Morse and Betty Johnson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Arts & Culture (23%), Health (11%).
- Who are Morse and Betty Johnson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation ($80k), Tregaron Conservancy ($75k), The Seven Hills School ($70k).
- Does Morse and Betty Johnson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Morse and Betty 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 Morse and Betty Johnson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, Louise Taft Semple Foundation.
- Where is Morse and Betty Johnson Family Foundation based?
- Morse and Betty Johnson Family Foundation is based in OH.
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