· Private foundation
Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| First United Methodist Church | $184,685 |
| Newgate Mission | $65,780 |
| Asbury House | $25,045 |
| Arts Longview | $10,000 |
| Hiway 80 Rescu Mission | $10,000 |
| Presbyterian Camps at Gilmont | $10,000 |
| Womens Center of East Texas | $9,500 |
| Longview 2020 Forum | $3,000 |
| Greater Longview Young Life | $2,500 |
| The Salvation Army | $1,500 |
| Greater Longview United Way | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% 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.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $58k · revenue +67%
- LMLONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS2× · 2020–2021 · $39k · revenue +120%
- PCPRESBYTERIAN CAMPS AT GILMONT INC4× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +275%
Funded once
- CSCrisman Schoolone grant, 2018 · $22k
- PLPRESERVATION LONGVIEWone grant, 2021 · $20k · 37% of their budget
- T2TROOP 201 ALUMNI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Pregnancy counseling
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
To honor the history of Freestone County
historic preservation and education
Preservation and education of history and historical items of interest for the citizens and visitors of sherman, tx.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Longview United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Preservation Longview. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 28 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 GOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CAMPS AT GILMONT INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CENTER OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LONGVIEW UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION LONGVIEW ↗
- Who funds MARTIN HOUSE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS LONGVIEW ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST TEXAS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds GREGG COUNTY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS ORPHAN CARE NETWORK INC DBA THE FOSTERING COLLECTIVE ↗
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: Rosa May Griffin Foundation · The Crain Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Patsy B Hollandsworth Family Foundation · Greater Longview United Way Inc · Eastman Credit Union · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wece B and Martha a Johnson 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.
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.