· Private foundation
Johnson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIDS AROUND THE WORLD | $1,650 |
| SWEDISH AMERICAN HOSPITAL | $500 |
| ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| DAVID COOK FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BACK2BACK MINISTRIES | $500 |
| AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL | $500 |
| JUDSON UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| IREF | $500 |
| OPERATION MOBILIZATION | $250 |
| ROCK RIVER CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION | $250 |
| GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KAKIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC8× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +86%
- RUROCKFORD UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +5%
- JUJUDSON UNIVERSITY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION5× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INCone grant, 2022 · $3k
- NCNORTH CENTRAL NEWFOUNDLAND CLUBone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $300
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.
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.
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 challenge young people to know christ as lord, apply god's truth in all areas of life, love others sacrifically, and achieve the highest level of knowledge and skill in order to serve god and others
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Bluesky global ministries' vision is to see the multinational community of nairobi, kenya, spiritually transformed and equipped to influence the world for god's glory. we pursue this by building relationships through adventure, using three…
Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.
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 specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Christian leaders from africa promotes christian theological training & education of local leaders in kenya and throughout africa. it invests in undergraduate, masters, and phd scholarships, faculty support for african professors and…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 34 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 BIBLES FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds KIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DAVID C COOK ↗
- Who funds JUDSON UNIVERSITY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SwedishAmerican Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds SwedishAmerican Hospital ↗
- Who funds Back 2 Back Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCK HOUSE KIDS ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEMONAID FUND ↗
- Who funds ONE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT ↗
- Who funds Children's Ministry International Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD RAPTORS SOCCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION 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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Rydell Family Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Johnson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Johnson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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