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The Manuel & Mary Johnson Foundation at a glance

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The Manuel & Mary Johnson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$325k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$1.2MHealth$1.2MArts & Culture$927kEducation$150kPhilanthropy$101kSocial Science$100kPublic Benefit$100kAnimals$58kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEU$155,000
UPPERVILE COLT HORSE SHOW$65,000
BEAR GIVERS$30,000
GEORGE WASHINGTONS MT VERNON$25,000
JOHNSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS$15,000
MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSN$10,150
SEMINOLE BOOSTERS$10,000
WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$7,500
ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION$5,000
MIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION$2,250
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%USC ENGINEERING SCHOOL: $25k → 14%BEAR GIVERS: $30k → 17%WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $25k → 14%WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $14k → 12%BOWDEN SOCIETY: $10k → 19%JOHNSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $15k → 27%MIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION: $27k → 4%INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250k → 6%UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW: $12k → 6%AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY: $100k → 7%ROBERT TRENT JONES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25k → 14%BEAR GIVERS: $25k → 17%WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $25k → 14%WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $13k → 12%SEMINOLE BOOSTERS: $10k → 19%JOHNSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $12k → 27%MIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION: $27k → 4%INOVA SCHAR CANCER INSTITUTE: $250k → 6%UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW: $12k → 6%MERCATUS CENTER: $50k → 7%USC ENGINEERING SCHOOL: $25k → 14%BEAR GIVERS: $25k → 17%WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $12k → 12%JOHNSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $12k → 27%MIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION: $27k → 4%INOVA SCHAR CANCER INSTITUTE: $250k → 6%MERCATUS CENTER: $50k → 7%BEAR GIVERS: $20k → 17%JOHNSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $12k → 27%MIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION: $25k → 4%INOVA SCHAR CANCER INSTITUTE: $250k → 6%BEAR GIVERS: $18k → 17%INDIAN RIVER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%Johnson Center for the Arts: $10k → 27%MIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 4%GREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION: $66k → 6%BEAR GIVERS: $18k → 17%INDIAN RIVER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%BEAR GIVERS: $15k → 17%TROY UNIVERSITY JOHNSON CENTER: $200k → 27%TROY UNIVERSITY JOHNSON CENTER: $150k → 27%UPPERVILE COLT HORSE SHOW: $65k → 4%TROY UNIVERSITY JOHNSON CENTER: $125k → 27%UPPERVILE COLT HORSE SHOW: $15k → 4%TROY UNIVERSITY JOHNSON CENTER: $110k → 27%UPPERVILE COLT HORSE SHOW: $12k → 4%TROY UNIVERSITY JOHNSON CENTER: $110k → 27%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

MT
NY
IA
CA
VA
DC
AL
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 17 repeat orgs$658k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
16

Total granted

$3.2M
$613k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+38%

Still filing today

59%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsSocial ScienceOther
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

  • TN
    THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $929k · revenue +223%
  • BG
    BEAR GIVERS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +68%
  • MS
    MIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • IH
    INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -224%
  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +97%
  • MV
    MOUNT VERNON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
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
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
2
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
3
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
4
Maymont Foundation

The maymont foundation is committed to creating experiences that delight, educate and inspire.

Arts & Culture
5
Mount Vernon Preservation Society
Arts & Culture
6
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
7
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
8
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
9
Secretariat Heritage Center
Arts & Culture
10
William & Mary Foundation

The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…

Education
11
Virginia War Memorial Foundation Inc

To promote and raise funds for the virginia war memorial, a state agency of virginia, which was created for the purpose of honoring patriotic virginians who rendered faithful service and sacrifice in the cause of freedom and liberty for…

Arts & Culture
12
University of Virginia Patent Foundation

The uva licensing and ventures group is dedicated to growing and guiding university innovations while improving lives on grounds and around the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union; the most unlike its peers is Upperville Preservation Society. 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

23 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. 23 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INOVA SCHAR CANCER INSTITUTE: $750,000 · OtherINOVA SCHAR CANCER INSTITUTETROY UNIVERSITY JOHNSON CENTER: $695,000 · OtherTROY UNIVERSITY JOHNSON CENTERUPPERVILE COLT HORSE SHOW: $92,000 · OtherJOHNSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $91,000 · OtherMOUNT VERNON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Other+17 more: $297,150 · Other+17 moreTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $929,253 · EducationTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY…THE WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $46,000 · Education+2 more: $35,000 · EducationINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthINOVA HEALTH…BEAR GIVERS INC: $150,000 · HealthBEAR GIVERS …INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $5,500 · HealthMIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION INC: $124,000 · Recreation & SportsUPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC: $24,000 · Recreation & SportsAMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY: $100,000 · Community ImprovementMercatus Center Inc: $100,000 · Social ScienceGREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INC: $66,000 · EnvironmentUPPERVILLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC: $5,000 · Environment
Other$2,000,150Education$1,010,253Health$425,500Recreation & Sports$148,000Community Improvement$100,000Social Science$100,000Environment$96,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $929,253 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetBEAR GIVERS INC: $150,000 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetMIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION INC: $124,000 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetAMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercatus Center Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INC: $66,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $46,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPERVILLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATFORD HALL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND: $8,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE STATION FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIA PIEDMONT HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

The Luminescence Foun…Dun FoundationWilliam M Backer Foun…Awa Family FoundationWise FoundationRonald M Bradley Foun…The Hall Family Found…Monomoy Fund IncThe Van Metre Family …The Community Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Renaissance Charitabl…
The Luminescence Foundation IncVA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Dun Foundation · William M Backer Foundation Inc · Awa Family Foundation · Wise Foundation · Ronald M Bradley Foundation Inc · The Hall Family Foundation Inc · Monomoy Fund Inc · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc

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 The Manuel & Mary Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Manuel & Mary Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 37 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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