· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK | $25,000 |
| THE KNOW THEATRE | $15,000 |
| CINCINNATI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JOHN EATON SCHOOL HSA | $10,000 |
| FREE STORE FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| TREGARON CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT (SOME) | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| NATURE FOUNDATION AT WINTERGREEN | $10,000 |
| BRIGHT BEGINNINGS | $10,000 |
| DC BILLINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
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, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCINCINNATI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +68%
- TCTregaron Conservancy6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +190%
- TSTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL2× · 2021–2022 · $70k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $37k
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN HOSP FDTN-SCHOOL TO WORK PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $13k
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN HOSP FDTN-FREE HEALTH CTR DENTAL PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), a not-for-profit, was founded in 1990 to serve as a manager, presenter and educator. CAA's mission is to present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse…
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.
The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Through the power of art, we contribute to a more vibrant cincinnati by inspiring its people and connecting our communities.
Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 52 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.
- Who funds CINCINNATI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tregaron Conservancy ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE FOUNDATION AT WINTERGREEN ↗
- Who funds DC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Know Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds Robert Oneal Multicultural Arts Center ↗
- Who funds THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN ECUMENICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Kids In Danger ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO LIGHTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTFELT TIDBITS INC ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Fidelity Foundation · Millstone Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Morse and Betty Johnson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morse and Betty Johnson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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