How much did ARTHUR Q JOHNSON FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of ARTHUR Q JOHNSON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

rescueleadseanymake-a-wishcovenantkpbs

2019

cancerimmunotherapywaldengroupvista

2020

gaelicemergencymake-a-wishkpbs

2021

endeavorsmake-a-wishcovenantkpbshomelessvistakids

2022

transitionmake-a-wishendeavorsyouthhomelesskpbskids

2023

golf tournamentbenefitendeavorscovenanthomelesskidsgirls carlsbad

2024

scholarshipgamefinancialaffectedendeavorscovenantyouth

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k28 grants · $110k
$10k–50k6 grants · $90k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE KIDS$25,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF CARLSBAD$20,000
THE RICHNESS OF GIVING$13,000
HEART IN THE SPECTRUM$12,000
PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL$10,000
ANERA$10,000
BAJA BOUND MINISTRIES INC$8,000
THE BREAKFAST CLUB$6,000
RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
CASA DE AMPARO$5,000
SAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOO$5,000
ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS$5,000
POINSETTIA ELEMENTARY PTA$5,000
CHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS$5,000
NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY$5,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$953k · 39 repeat orgs$333k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$953k

$268k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+21%

Still filing today

31%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

LP
LAS PATRONAS
4× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +10%
PE
POINSETTIA ELEMENTARY PTA
5× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +77% · 55% of their budget
SD
SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION
4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +33%

Funded once

BA
BATTLEFIELD ADDICTIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +28%
IF
IMMUNOTHERAPY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue -65%
AR
ANOTHER ROUND ANOTHER RALLY
one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -64%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Uc San Diego Foundation

To advocate and raise private support for the university of california san diego, for the purpose of its research, teaching and public service mission.

Education

San Diego Coasters

Arts & Culture

San Diego Opera Association

The mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community engagement and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as part of its…

Arts & Culture

Voice of San Diego

Investigative journalism for a better san diego.

Arts & Culture

Rotary Club of San Diego Foundation Inc

The rotary club of san diego foundations mission is to support the san diego rotary club ein 95-1165783. to that end, our mission is to encourage & foster community service via the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise,…

Philanthropy

The Scga Foundation

The mission of the scga junior golf foundation is to develop an inclusive golf community that enables kids to thrive on and beyond the course. we believe that every kid in southern california, no matter their circumstance, should have the…

Recreation & Sports

San Diego Parks Foundation

To improve the quality of life of communities throughout the city of San Diego through equitable investments in parks, greenspace, and recreational opportunities.Vison - Every San Diegan has access to quality recreational facilities as…

Recreation & Sports

San Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation

To provide the resources to be used towards the saving of lives and support the men and women who provide firefighting and emergency medical services in San Diego.

Public Safety & Disaster

Cancer Angels of San Diego

To address the unmet needs of individuals battling all types of Stage IV cancer and experience financial devastation as a result of their diagnosis. We provide consistent help for as long as our patients are ill or unable to work due to…

Health

San Diego Automotive Museum

San Diego Automotive Museum's mission is to tell the story of the social and technological past, present and future of the automobile through its collections, exhibitions, and educational programs.

Arts & Culture

Rotary Club of San Diego

Encourage & foster community service via the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise, application of the ideal of service in each rotarians life and advance international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world…

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Curebound

Mobilize san diego to accelerate cures for cancer in our lifetime.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Diego Lifesaving Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%2/52

the rest of the field

12%

1,825/14,709

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/47

Grantees still filing

31/47

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,073,470Human Services$62,500Health$47,000Arts & Culture$43,500Housing & Shelter$28,000Education$16,000Philanthropy$15,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Diego FoundationCA39.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Georges & Germaine Fusenot · Kerr Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation ARTHUR Q JOHNSON FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: POINSETTIA ELEMENTARY PTA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +77% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 260189547 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on POINSETTIA ELEMENTARY PTA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 55% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Arthur Q Johnson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Arthur Q Johnson Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ARTHUR Q JOHNSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arthur Q Johnson Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ARTHUR Q JOHNSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arthur Q Johnson Foundation?

More from the funding graph