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The Nancy & Victor S Johnson Jr 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: 47% of THE NANCY & VICTOR S JOHNSON JR 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 $10k93 grants · $239k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRINNELL COLLEGE RELATIONS | $50,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF HAMILTON COLLEGE | $26,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHVILLE | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHVILLE | $10,000 |
| FRANK THEATRE | $10,000 |
| NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOD BANK OF MIDDLE T | $10,000 |
| SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER | $7,000 |
| NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $7,000 |
| GRINNELL COLLEGE RELATIONS | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| COTTAGE COVE URBAN MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE | $5,000 |
| LAKE LEELANAU LAKE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
96 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 28 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k 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
- BUBelmont University5× · 2020–2024 · $84k · revenue +53%
Vanderbilt University5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +65%- SASEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TOTrustees of Hamilton Collegeone grant, 2020 · $26k
- FTFrank Theatreone grant, 2020 · $11k
- UWUnited Way Greater Nashvilleone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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.
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
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.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Our mission is to serve our members through education, professionalism, and legislative involvement
Tirrc is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration. our mission is to build power, amplify our voices, and organize communities to advocate for our rights. our vision is a stronger, more inclusive tennessee where people of all…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Conflict Resolution Ctr and the most unlike its peers is Snooty Giggles Dog Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 182 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.
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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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 · Enchiridion Foundation · Ebs 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 The Nancy & Victor S Johnson Jr 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.
- Amherst College Trustees — 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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