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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.

$334k
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$682kEducation$571kArts & Culture$568kPhilanthropy$264kHealth$138kHuman Services$51kCommunity Improvement$34kInternational$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH$61,000
DIXON GALLERY AND GARDENS$52,500
CONVERSE COLLEGE$51,500
ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH$30,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS$10,000
SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS$10,000
METAL MUSEUM$10,000
SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT FOUNDATION$9,000
CHURCH HEALTH CENTER$5,100
WHITEFISH THEATRE COMPANY$5,000
METROPOLITAN INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION$5,000
WHITEFISH WINTER CARNIVAL FOR YOUTH SPORTS$5,000
EL CENTRO HISPANO$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $1k → 10%THRIVE MEMPHIS: $1k → 17%THRIVE MEMPHIS: $1k → 17%THRIVE MEMPHIS: $1k → 17%THRIVE MEMPHIS: $500 → 17%THRIVE MEMPHIS: $500 → 17%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%HOPE HOUSE: $1k → 17%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTERS OF THE MID-SOUTH: $1k → 17%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $1k → 17%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS: $1k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $1k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $1k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $1k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $1k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $1k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $1k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MT
ND
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 63 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
27

Total granted

$2.3M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+42%

Still filing today

57%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $369k · revenue +54%
  • SB
    SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +22%
  • CH
    CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • LS
    LAKE SUMMIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • MC
    MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -100%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN HAITI
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
2
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Furman University

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.

Education
4
Morningside University

The morningside university experience cultivates a passion for life-long learning and a dedication to ethical leadership and civic responsibility.

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
8
Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation

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,…

Arts & Culture
9
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
10
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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11
Spelman College

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.

Education
12
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Memphis Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 103 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
46/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $361,500 · OtherCALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCHCHAPMAN CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPYSPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION: $253,000 · OtherCHAPMAN CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPYSPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUND…ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $185,000 · OtherALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCHPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $67,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD+53 more: $301,100 · Other+53 moreDixon Gallery and Gardens: $360,000 · Arts & CultureDixon Gallery and GardensWHITEFISH THEATRE COMPANY: $35,000 · Arts & CultureWHITEFISH THEATRE COMPANYALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureALPINE THEATRE PROJECT IN…+13 more: $114,500 · Arts & Culture+13 moreCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $369,000 · EducationCONVERSE UNIVERSITYSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $60,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTEThe Westminster Schools Inc: $25,000 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGE: $20,200 · Education+9 more: $26,500 · EducationCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $40,100 · HealthSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation: $17,000 · Health+3 more: $3,500 · HealthMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $40,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVE MEMPHIS: $4,000 · Human ServicesA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Human Services+5 more: $4,500 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $21,200 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropySLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,167,600Arts & Culture$539,500Education$500,700Health$60,600Human Services$58,500Community Improvement$21,200Philanthropy$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $369,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDixon Gallery and Gardens: $360,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $40,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWHITEFISH THEATRE COMPANY: $35,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $21,200 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL: $20,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $20,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC: $17,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT: $14,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetEverystory: $14,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $14,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA MEMPHIS INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTSMEMPHIS: $8,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATRE MEMPHIS: $7,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET SPARTANBURG INC: $4,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE MEMPHIS: $4,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLAKE SUMMIT FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHENDERSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS UNION MISSON: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEPLOYUS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID-SOUTH PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Dixon Gallery and Gardens ↗
  • 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 ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Everystory ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERA MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTSMEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds THEATRE MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER ↗

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.

Christian Community F…Community Foundation …Thomas W Briggs Found…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…Plough FoundationSelf FoundationJewish Foundation of …Spartanburg County Fo…Milliken & Company Ch…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…The McDonnell Family …The Day Foundation
Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN46.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rose Montgomery Johnston Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rose Montgomery Johnston Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Rose Montgomery Johnston Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rose Montgomery Johnston Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 103 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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