· Private foundation
Arthur Q Johnson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $199k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LET'S PLAY A GAME FOUNDATION | $48,000 |
| IT'S ALL ABOUT THE KIDS | $20,000 |
| CHARLEY HOFFMAN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF CARLSBAD | $16,000 |
| ONCOLOGY KIDS | $15,000 |
| CASA CORNELIA LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| SAN DIEGO FASHION ART MUSIC | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE RICHNESS OF GIVING | $10,000 |
| PATHWAYS OF CITIZENSHIP | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| DOOR OF FAITH MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| DRIVE FOR WATER | $6,000 |
| SAN ELIJO WOMEN'S CLUB | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
42 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD7× · 2019–2025 · $151k · revenue +9%
- LPLAS PATRONAS4× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +17%
- DCDIVERSIFIED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC3× · 2021–2023 · $33k · revenue +141% · 37% of their budget
Funded once
- BABATTLEFIELD ADDICTIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +73%
- IFIMMUNOTHERAPY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue -89%
- ARANOTHER ROUND ANOTHER RALLYone 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.
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.
To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.
The mission of San Dieguito Surf Soccer is to provide equitable access to high-quality soccer programs that promote athletic development, personal growth, and community engagement. As a nonprofit organization, we are committed to removing…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Dreams for Change's mission is to respond to the needs of San Diegans by creating innovative and cost-effective programs to empower and stabilize the lives of under-served families and individuals.
To establish San Diego and Southern California as the core of the healthy living, sports and active lifestyle community. Through supporting companies at all stages, we help create jobs, but not just any jobs, jobs that make our city and…
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,…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Love Song Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 126 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD ↗
- Who funds LAS PATRONAS ↗
- Who funds DIVERSIFIED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds BATTLEFIELD ADDICTION ↗
- Who funds IMMUNOTHERAPY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLEY HOFFMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOVE SONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER ROUND ANOTHER RALLY ↗
- Who funds OPTIMIST CLUB OF VISTA ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Door of Faith Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC RIDGE ATHLETIC GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO CITIZENSHIP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Country Friends · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley 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 organization 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.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.