How much does Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation give?

Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $323,010 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (76%), Arts & Culture (4%), Housing & Shelter (3%).

Who are Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Newgate United Methodist Mission of Longview Inc ($250k), Good Shepherd Foundation Inc ($58k), Longview Museum of Fine Arts ($39k).

Does Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rosa May Griffin Foundation, The Crain Foundation, East Texas Communities Foundation.

Where is Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation based?

Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation is based in TX.

Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation

Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$323k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$185k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.8MArts & Culture$91kHousing & Shelter$79kEmployment$75kHuman Services$71kHealth$58kEducation$44kRecreation & Sports$30kOther$0

02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $18k
$10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$50k–250k2 grants · $250k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
First United Methodist Church	$184,685
Newgate Mission	$65,780
Asbury House	$25,045
Hiway 80 Rescu Mission	$10,000
Arts Longview	$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

02The need

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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.2M · 15 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.2M

$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+11%

Still filing today

47%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationReligionCrime & LegalOther

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

GS
GOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $58k · revenue +67%
LM
LONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
2× · 2020–2021 · $39k · revenue +120%
PC
PRESBYTERIAN CAMPS AT GILMONT INC
4× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +275%

Funded once

CS
Crisman School
one grant, 2018 · $22k
PL
PRESERVATION LONGVIEW
one grant, 2021 · $20k · 37% of their budget
MH
MARTIN HOUSE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER
one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +11%

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.

Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies

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Good News Foundation of Texas

Philanthropy

Central Texas Pregnancy Care Center

Pregnancy counseling

Human Services

Greater Texas Foundation

Education

Texas Flying Legends Museum

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The Lullaby House

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.

Youth Development

Freestone County Historical and Museum Association Inc

To honor the history of Freestone County

Arts & Culture

Texas Clean Energy Coalition

—

Llano County Historical Society Inc

historic preservation and education

—

The Sherman Museum

Preservation and education of history and historical items of interest for the citizens and visitors of sherman, tx.

Arts & Culture

The Good Foundation of Texas

Philanthropy

Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Longview United Way Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 28 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

10/14

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,117,710Arts & Culture$73,500Human Services$44,500Religion$30,300Philanthropy$24,000Crime & Legal$20,000Education$5,000

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

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.

Rosa May Griffin FoundationTX30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home