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Rose Montgomery Johnston Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of ROSE MONTGOMERY JOHNSTON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k44 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $61,000 |
| DIXON GALLERY AND GARDENS | $52,500 |
| CONVERSE COLLEGE | $51,500 |
| ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $30,000 |
| SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| METAL MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS | $10,000 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| CHURCH HEALTH CENTER | $5,100 |
| METROPOLITAN INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| WHITEFISH WINTER CARNIVAL FOR YOUTH SPORTS | $5,000 |
| WHITEFISH THEATRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| CHURCH WORLD SERVICES | $4,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
63 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $369k · revenue +54%- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE6× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +22%
- CHCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- LSLAKE SUMMIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $13k
- MCMEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ARTone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -100%
- SVST VINCENT'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN HAITIone grant, 2018 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The morningside university experience cultivates a passion for life-long learning and a dedication to ethical leadership and civic responsibility.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Memphis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hub City Writers Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 31. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 103 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Everystory ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds OPERA MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSMEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THEATRE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Plough Foundation · Self Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Spartanburg County Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · The McDonnell Family Foundation · The Day Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Rose Montgomery Johnston Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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