Funding search · EIN 856607033 · Nashville, TN

Milton and Denice Johnson Family

Name: Milton and Denice Johnson Family grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

213
grants reported: $7.9M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

capital campaign community mobile endowment metropolitan mnps nashville

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

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Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Woodmont Christian Church5 grants · $3.1M
Pencil4 grants · $520,000
Harding Academy2 grants · $500,000
Abe'S Garden4 grants · $400,000
Second Harvest Food Bank4 grants · $325,000
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee6 grants · $185,000
On the Avenue Foundation3 grants · $150,000
Teach for America3 grants · $150,000
United for Hope4 grants · $140,000
Creativets1 grant · $125,000

Giving over time

$1.2M

2022

$1.4M

2023

$1.4M

2024

$3.9M

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 213 grants.

$2.5M
Woodmont Christian Church · Nashville, TN · 2025
Capital campaign
$250,000
Pencil · Nashville, TN · 2025
Reimagining community spaces in mnps
$250,000
Pencil · Nashville, TN · 2024
Reimagining community spaces in mnps
$250,000
Harding Academy · Nashville, TN · 2023
Capital campaign
$250,000
Harding Academy · Nashville, TN · 2022
Capital campaign
$175,000
Woodmont Christian Church · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$175,000
Woodmont Christian Church · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$150,000
Woodmont Christian Church · Nashville, TN · 2023
Operational support
$150,000
Woodmont Christian Church · Nashville, TN · 2022
Operational support
$125,000
Creativets · Nashville, TN · 2025
Capital campaign
$100,000
Abe'S Garden · Nashville, TN · 2025
Capital campaign
$100,000
Second Harvest Food Bank · Nashville, TN · 2025
Support for the mobile program and operations
$100,000
Abe'S Garden · Nashville, TN · 2024
Capital campaign
$100,000
Family and Children'S Services · Nashville, TN · 2024
Capital support
$100,000
Second Harvest Food Bank · Nashville, TN · 2024
Support for the mobile program and operations
$100,000
Abe'S Garden · Nashville, TN · 2023
Capital campaign
$100,000
Second Harvest Food Bank · Nashville, TN · 2023
1/2 for operational support, 1/2 for mobile program
$100,000
Abe'S Garden · Nashville, TN · 2022
Capital campaign
$100,000
Nashville Rescue Mission · Nashville, TN · 2022
Capital campaign
$50,000
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$50,000
On the Avenue Foundation · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$50,000
Teach for America · Atlanta, GA · 2025
Operational support
$50,000
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2024
Metropolitan nashville police support fund
$50,000
On the Avenue Foundation · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$50,000
Teach for America · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Operational support
$50,000
American Cancer Society - Tn · Nashville, TN · 2023
Capital campaign
$50,000
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2023
Metropolitan nashville police support fund
$50,000
On the Avenue Foundation · Nashville, TN · 2023
Operational support
$50,000
Teach for America · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Operational support
$50,000
Tennessee Golf Foundation · Franklin, TN · 2023
Warner park golf course improvements
$50,000
American Cancer Society - Tn · Nashville, TN · 2022
Capital campaign
$50,000
Tennessee Golf Foundation · Franklin, TN · 2022
Capital campaign
$40,000
United for Hope · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$40,000
United for Hope · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$40,000
United for Hope · Nashville, TN · 2023
Operational support
$30,000
Frist Art Museum · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$30,000
Frist Art Museum · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$30,000
Frist Art Museum · Nashville, TN · 2023
Operational support
$30,000
Frist Art Museum · Nashville, TN · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Centennial Park Conservancy · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$25,000
Communities in Schools of Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$25,000
Musicians On Call · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$25,000
Nashville Symphony · Nasvhille, TN · 2025
Operational support
$25,000
Nashville Zoo · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$25,000
Oz Arts · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$25,000
Transformation Life Center · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$25,000
United Way of Greater Nashville · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$25,000
Adoption Project · Eagleville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$25,000
Communities in Schools of Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$25,000
Greenways for Nashville · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$25,000
Musicians On Call · Nashville, TN · 2024
Support in honor of 25th anniversary
$25,000
Nashville Symphony · Nasvhille, TN · 2024
Operational support
$25,000
Nashville Zoo · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$25,000
The Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Scholarship endowment
$25,000
Transformation Life Center · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$25,000
United Way of Greater Nashville · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$25,000
Adoption Project · Eagleville, TN · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
Greenways for Nashville · Nashville, TN · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
Make a Wish Middle Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2023
Matching gift for compete for purpose
$25,000
Musicians On Call · Nashville, TN · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
Nashville Symphony · Nasvhille, TN · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
Nashville Zoo · Nashville, TN · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
The Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Scholarship endowment
$25,000
Transformation Life Center · Hermitage, TN · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
United Way of Greater Nashville · Nashville, TN · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
Greenways for Nashville · Nashville, TN · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society · Nashville, TN · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Musicians On Call · Nashville, TN · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Nashville Symphony · Nasvhille, TN · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Nashville Zoo · Nashville, TN · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Second Harvest Food Bank · Nashville, TN · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
The Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Transformation Life Center · Hermitage, TN · 2022
Operational support
$20,000
Thistle Farms · Nashville, TN · 2022
Operational support
$20,000
United for Hope · Nashville, TN · 2022
Operational support
$20,000
United Way of Greater Nashville · Nashville, TN · 2022
Operational support
$15,000
Cheekwood · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$15,000
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$15,000
Interfaith Dental · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$15,000
Interfaith Dental · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$15,000
Interfaith Dental · Nashville, TN · 2023
Operational support
$10,000
Alive Hospice · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$10,000
American Red Cross of Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$10,000
Belmont University · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$10,000
Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$10,000
Greenways for Nashville · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$10,000
Jobs for Tennessee Graduates · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$10,000
Make a Wish Middle Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$10,000
March of Dimes Middle Tn Chapter · Hermitage, TN · 2025
Operational support
$10,000
Nashville Food Project · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$10,000
Oasis Center · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$10,000
Pencil · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$10,000
Siloam Health · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$10,000
Thistle Farms · Nashville, TN · 2025
Operational support
$10,000
Alive Hospice · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$10,000
American Red Cross of Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$10,000
Belmont University · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$10,000
Cheekwood · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support
$10,000
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2024
Voices for a safer tennessee community education fund
$10,000
Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2024
Operational support

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.