California · 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.
- $256k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $48,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Arthur Q Johnson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $246k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $196k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $179k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $186k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $201k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $136k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $128k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $104k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad | $151,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Lets Play a Game Foundation | $52,000 | 2 | n/a |
| San Elijo Hills Womens Club | $39,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Las Patronas | $34,750 | 4 | 2% |
| Diversified Christian Ministries Inc | $32,500 | 3 | 37% |
| Nativity Prep Academy of San Diego Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| San Diego Rescue Mission Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| La Jolla Music Society | $27,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Alpha Project for the Homeless | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Battlefield Addiction | $25,000 | 1 | 7% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($587k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arthur Q Johnson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About Arthur Q Johnson Foundation
- How much does Arthur Q Johnson Foundation give?
- Arthur Q Johnson Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $256,019 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arthur Q Johnson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (30%), Health (13%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Arthur Q Johnson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad ($151k), Lets Play a Game Foundation ($52k), San Elijo Hills Womens Club ($39k).
- Does Arthur Q Johnson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arthur Q Johnson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arthur Q Johnson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, Sempra Foundation.
- Where is Arthur Q Johnson Foundation based?
- Arthur Q Johnson Foundation is based in CA.
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