The Lloyd and Mabel Johnson Foundation

• The filing says the foundation gives only to charitable organisations it has selected in advance and does not accept unsolicited requests, and it sets out no route for being considered, so a cold application is unlikely to be the right approach.
• Its grants are varied, reaching medical clinics and hospice services, community development groups, Christian schools, churches, universities, youth programmes, camps and a museum, and no subject focus is stated, so fit is hard to judge from the filing.
• Its typical grant runs from $2,500 to $100,000, with about 8 in 10 of its 169 grants in that band, a median of $25,000 and half at $25,000 or less, so a modest request sits closest to its usual pattern.
• Because 90% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in earlier filings, existing grantees are the clearest pattern, so a prior connection with the foundation matters more than the size of the ask.
• The filings show most organisation-grant dollars going to Michigan recipients, but no geographic focus is stated, so the Michigan link is a pattern rather than a rule.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Hope Medical Clinic · Operations
  $200,0002024 tax year
• Life Remodeled · Operations
  $200,0002024 tax year
• Westside Christian Academy · Operations
  $140,0002024 tax year
• Moody Theological Seminary · Operations
  $130,0002024 tax year
• Yankee Air Museum · Operations
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Active Faith Community Services · Operations
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Pope Francis Center · Operations
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Central Detroit Christian CDC · Operations
  $100,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.