· Private foundation
Johns Family Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Johns Family Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to World Vision Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Johns Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 27 organizations, $699k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k20 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $403k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GENEROUS GIVING | $100,000 |
| IMPACT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $76,621 |
| FORT MILL CHURCH PLANTING | $75,000 |
| TIJERAS FOUNDATION | $51,150 |
| AXIS | $25,000 |
| EAGLE SPORTS CLUB | $25,000 |
| K LIFE OF TULSA | $25,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE OF MARTIN COUNTY | $20,000 |
| UNDER HIS CONSTRUCTION | $20,000 |
| TRUE NORTH MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| NEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICA PRAYS INC | $10,000 |
| SIXTEENFIFTEEN | $10,000 |
| PALM CITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against -30% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $334k · revenue ×103
- GGGENEROUS GIVING INC2× · 2018–2019 · $150k · revenue +47%
- AAXIS3× · 2017–2019 · $105k · revenue +226%
Funded once
- AAACTON ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $50k
- SLServe Liberia INCone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -30%
- MHMARTIN HEALTH SYSTEMone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEROUS GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds AXIS ↗
- Who funds TIJERAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENEROUSCHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Soar Detroit ↗
- Who funds Serve Liberia INC ↗
- Who funds SHINE SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS JOURNEY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds SEED EFFECT ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION 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.
Open a dossier: Tijeras Foundation · Servant Foundation · International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · The New Horizons Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Majesty Foundation · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Gordon Christian Trust · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Johns Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Johns Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Way of Martin County Inc: 4% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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