· Private foundation
Tr Joe E Johnston Fdn Uw
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k22 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE YMCAS OF CHEROKEE COUNTY | $14,000 |
| SER FAMILIA | $10,000 |
| LOVING ARMS CANCER OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| THE WAY WOODSTOCK UMC | $10,000 |
| MUST MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| MURPHY-HARPST CHILDRENS CENTERS INC | $7,500 |
| LEKOTEK OF GEORGIA | $7,500 |
| CAMP KUDZU | $7,500 |
| MOUNT OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH OF | $7,000 |
| CHEROKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,000 |
| CANTON-CHEROKEE TRIAD SALT | $6,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO ATLANTA | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $5,000 |
| CAMP TWIN LAKES INC | $5,000 |
| SUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY | $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 (FY21–26, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2026, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- SFSER FAMILIA6× · 2021–2026 · $54k · revenue +254%
- LOLEKOTEK OF GEORGIA INC6× · 2021–2026 · $39k · revenue +37%
- LALoving Arms Cancer Outreach Inc4× · 2023–2026 · $38k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- GCG Cecil Pruett Community Center Familyone grant, 2021 · $14k
- HFHabitat For Humanity ofone grant, 2021 · $9k
- VNVISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM INCone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +17%
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.
Creative community services (ccs) improves the quality of life for children teens and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health needs, and their families, by providing direct services and community-based support throughout…
To partner with patients and communities to support wellness through compassionate, quality healthcare.
The georgia hospital association (gha) serves approximately 150 hospitals throughout georgia. its purpose is to promote the health and welfare of the public through the development of better health care for all of georgia's citizens. gha…
Cvc of atlanta encourages corporate members to develop excellence in corporate volunteerism. develop programs and provide resources.
Macon Volunteer Clinic (MVC)provides free primary medical and dental care, as well as medication assistance, to uninsured, working adult residents of Middle Georgia. All patients live at or below 200% of federal poverty level.
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
Service provide to adults and children who need medical and dental treatment, but lack the financial ability to pay in the western and northern counties of metro atlanta, georgia
Georgia Partnership for Telehealth, Inc. is a charitable nonprofit corporation which was formed to promote impovements in healthcare and healthcare facilities in rural and underserved communities throughout the state of Georgia by…
Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Murphy-Harpst Children's Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cherokee Community Chorale. 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 28 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% 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 21% 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.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 49 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 Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Cherokee County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SER FAMILIA ↗
- Who funds LEKOTEK OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Loving Arms Cancer Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds REINHARDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Georgia Transplant Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE COMMUNITY CHORALE ↗
- Who funds ELM STREET CULTURAL ARTS VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council ↗
- Who funds CAMP KUDZU INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SERENADE HEIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Giving Health Inc ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds NOBIS WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OF COBB INC ↗
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: Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Cobb Emc Foundation Inc · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc
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 Tr Joe E Johnston Fdn Uw 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.
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.