After selling the Victor Talking Machine Company and retiring from the phonograph business in 1926, Johnson largely withdrew from the public eye.
He donated large sums of his vast wealth to various  charities and established the Johnson Foundation for Research in Medical Physics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1929.
The foundation, now called the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation, is associated with the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Having been in failing health for several years, Johnson died at the age of 78 on November 14, 1945, in Breidenhart, his home at Moorestown Township, New Jersey, after suffering a stroke days earlier.

On February 26, 1985, Johnson posthumously received the 1984 Grammy Trustee Award, given to persons who made a significant contribution in the field of recording.
This award is on display at the Johnson Victrola Museum located in Dover, Delaware.
 Johnson is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
After selling the Victor Talking Machine Company and retiring from the phonograph business in 1926, Johnson largely withdrew from the public eye. He donated large sums of his vast wealth to various  charities and established the Johnson Foundation for Research in Medical Physics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1929. The foundation, now called the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation, is associated with the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Having been in failing health for several years, Johnson died at the age of 78 on November 14, 1945, in Breidenhart, his home at Moorestown Township, New Jersey, after suffering a stroke days earlier.
On February 26, 1985, Johnson posthumously received the 1984 Grammy Trustee Award, given to persons who made a significant contribution in the field of recording. This award is on display at the Johnson Victrola Museum located in Dover, Delaware.  Johnson is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
Eldridge R. Johnson