Texas · Private foundation
Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable 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.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2024
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $650,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 62 to 76
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $26M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 55 | $2.4M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 76 | $1.9M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 73 | $2.0M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 76 | $2.0M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $1.7M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 62 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2018 | 64 | $1.2M | 17% |
| FY2017 | 69 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Lukes United Methodist Church | $1,440,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Cassies Place | $682,500 | 8 | 23% |
| Maryville College | $600,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $529,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of the South | $401,666 | 4 | 0% |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $395,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Presidio la Bahia Foundation | $375,000 | 4 | 51% |
| Cardigan Mountain School | $354,166 | 4 | 1% |
| The Kinkaid School Inc | $315,000 | 8 | 0% |
| St Thomas High School | $305,000 | 8 | n/a |
Show all 99 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 89 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation
- How much does Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation give?
- Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $2,422,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 76 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Religion (13%), Health (9%).
- Who are Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Lukes United Methodist Church ($1.4M), Cassies Place ($683k), Maryville College ($600k).
- Does Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include J Squared Family Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc.
- Where is Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation based?
- Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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