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Arthur Q Johnson Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$465kHealth$203kRecreation & Sports$182kHuman Services$172kEducation$132kArts & Culture$76kHousing & Shelter$64kInternational$62kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $199k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SAN DIEGO FASHION ART MUSIC$10,000
PATHWAYS OF CITIZENSHIP$10,000
CASA CORNELIA LAW CENTER$10,000
THE RICHNESS OF GIVING$10,000
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
DOOR OF FAITH MINISTRIES$10,000
PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL$10,000
DRIVE FOR WATER$6,000
SAN ELIJO WOMEN'S CLUB$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ANOTHER ROUND ANOTHER RALLY: $15k → 11%CHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS: $5k → 10%FULFILLMENT FUND: $5k → 14%CHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS: $5k → 10%MIRACLE BABIES: $5k → 11%SHERMAN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 11%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $8k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $5k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $5k → 11%MOUNTAIN SHADOWS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%THE COMFORT CUB: $1k → 11%PATHWAYS OF CITIZENSHIP: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
IN
PA
CA
AZ
SC
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 42 repeat orgs$414k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
62

Total granted

$1.1M
$306k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+11%

Still filing today

50%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD
    7× · 2019–2025 · $151k · revenue +9%
  • LP
    LAS PATRONAS
    4× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +17%
  • DC
    DIVERSIFIED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $33k · revenue +141% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • BA
    BATTLEFIELD ADDICTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +73%
  • IF
    IMMUNOTHERAPY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue -89%
  • AR
    ANOTHER ROUND ANOTHER RALLY
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -64%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
2
San Diego Regional Economic Development Foundation

To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.

Community Improvement
3
San Dieguito Surf Soccer Club

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…

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4
San Diego Double Ten Committee
Arts & Culture
5
San Diego County Citizens' Scholars Foundation
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6
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
7
Dreams for Change Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Sport Innovators

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…

Philanthropy
9
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
10
Centro De San Juan Diego Foundation Inc Fka Douglas&Bennett Family Fdn
Philanthropy
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 126 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/75
Grantees still filing
35/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE KIDS: $217,960 · OtherIT'S ALL ABOUT THE KIDSLETS PLAY A GAME FOUNDATION: $52,000 · OtherONCOLOGY KIDS: $47,500 · OtherSAN ELIJO HILLS WOMENS CLUB: $39,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA: $37,450 · Other+83 more: $671,224 · Other+83 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD: $151,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…CRUISE 4 KIDS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCRUISE 4 KI…Casa De Amparo: $17,500 · Human ServicesANOTHER ROUND ANOTHER RALLY: $15,000 · Human ServicesEpiscopal Community Services: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS TO CITIZENSHIP: $10,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN SHADOWS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesSherman Heights Community Center Corporation: $5,000 · Human ServicesFULFILLMENT FUND: $5,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE BABIES: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesBATTLEFIELD ADDICTION: $25,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTH: $16,125 · HealthSEANY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthROAD 2 RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · HealthEPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $5,000 · HealthKylie Rowand Foundation Inc: $4,000 · Health+3 more: $1,650 · HealthNATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC: $30,000 · EducationPACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $10,500 · EducationCommunity Transition Academy: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $27,000 · Arts & CultureWords Alive: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GUITAR CENTER MUSIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWimberley Valley Radio: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMariachi Scholarship Foundation: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRO CULTURAL DE LA RAZA INCORPORATED: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureCHARLEY HOFFMAN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsFOUR WINDS: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC: $9,580 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,065,134Youth Development$161,000Human Services$86,000Health$69,275Education$66,500Arts & Culture$54,500Recreation & Sports$39,580

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD: $151,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetLAS PATRONAS: $34,750 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetDIVERSIFIED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $32,500 over 3y, 37% of budgetNATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBATTLEFIELD ADDICTION: $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetIMMUNOTHERAPY FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLEY HOFFMAN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE SONG FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $16,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANOTHER ROUND ANOTHER RALLY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPTIMIST CLUB OF VISTA: $15,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCRUISE 4 KIDS: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEANY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFOUR WINDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDoor of Faith Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBALBOA PARK CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAYS TO CITIZENSHIP: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA JOLLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetPACIFIC RIDGE ATHLETIC GROUP INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC: $9,580 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBAJA BOUND MINISTRIES FKA NATIONAL YOUTH INNOVATIONS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROAD 2 RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWords Alive: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINSIGHT VISION CENTER: $5,600 over 1y, 50% of budgetRancho Santa Fe Rotary Foundation Inc: $5,400 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLSBAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN SHADOWS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCENTURY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSherman Heights Community Center Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Transition Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GUITAR CENTER MUSIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWimberley Valley Radio: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMariachi Scholarship Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO 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 PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHARLEY HOFFMAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
  • Who funds LOVE SONG FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 CRUISE 4 KIDS ↗
  • Who funds Episcopal Community Services ↗
  • Who funds SEANY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUR WINDS ↗
  • Who funds Casa Cornelia Legal Services ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS INC ↗
  • Who funds Door of Faith Ministries Inc ↗

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.

The San Diego Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…Sempra FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…Walter J & Betty C Za…Price Philanthropies …The Conrad Prebys Fou…The Cushman FoundationThe Nordson Corporati…The Country FriendsThe Parker FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…
The San Diego FoundationCA49.8× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arthur Q Johnson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur Q Johnson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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