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Johnson Historical Museum of the Southwest

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.

$675k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.4MEducation$195kYouth Development$100kFood & Nutrition$71kCrime & Legal$60kHealth$50kEnvironment$30kAnimals$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $510k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAVE CREEK MUSEUM$200,000
DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM$170,000
DOUGLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY$140,000
LOST SHEEP RANCH$40,000
COCHISE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
ST CHARLES CATHOLIC SCHOOL$25,000
SHELTER FOR OUTCASTS UNUSUALS THE L$20,000
ARIZONA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$20,000
CASA GRANDE VALLEY HIST SOCIETY$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN$10,000
NEWBORN KITTEN RESCUE INC$10,000
SOUTHERN ARIZONA HISTORY CONNECTION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEWBORN KITTEN RESCUE INC: $10k → 11%SOUTHERN ARIZONA HISTORY CONNECTION: $5k → 15%PIONEER MUSEUM-AZ HISTORICAL SOCIET: $25k → 16%COCHISE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25k → 18%ST CHARLES CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $25k → 19%NEWBORN KITTEN RESCUE INC: $10k → 11%AZ HISTORY MUSEUM-AZ HISTORICAL SOC: $25k → 15%BISBEE MINING HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $70k → 18%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF AZ: $30k → 11%BISBEE MINING HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $40k → 18%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF AZ: $20k → 11%BISBEE MINING HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $30k → 18%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF AZ: $10k → 11%BISBEE MINING HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $25k → 18%VALLEY GARDEN CENTER INC: $30k → 11%EARN YOUR SPURS INC: $20k → 18%DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM: $170k → 11%EARN YOUR SPURS INC: $20k → 18%DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM: $130k → 11%DOUGLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $140k → 18%DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM: $100k → 11%DOUGLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $110k → 18%CAVE CREEK MUSEUM: $200k → 11%LOST SHEEP RANCH: $60k → 18%DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM: $90k → 11%COCHISE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40k → 18%CAVE CREEK MUSEUM: $150k → 11%LOST SHEEP RANCH: $40k → 18%DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM: $50k → 11%DOUGLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40k → 18%CAVE CREEK MUSEUM: $60k → 11%DOUGLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40k → 18%DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM: $50k → 11%COCHISE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25k → 18%CAVE CREEK MUSEUM: $60k → 11%DOUGLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25k → 18%DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM: $25k → 11%COCHISE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 18%CAVE CREEK MUSEUM: $20k → 11%ALL ABOUT ANIMALS RESCUE INC: $10k → 11%SHELTER FOR OUTCASTS UNUSUALS THE L: $30k → 11%PIONEER ARIZONA LIVING HISTORY MUSE: $25k → 11%ST BERNADETTE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10k → 11%SHELTER FOR OUTCASTS UNUSUALS THE L: $20k → 11%YORKIE LUV RESCUE INC: $10k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 13 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$2.4M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-17%
0%

Still filing today

62%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsFood & NutritionArts & CultureCrime & LegalEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • DC
    DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM
    7× · 2019–2025 · $615k · revenue ×15
  • CC
    Cave Creek Museum
    5× · 2021–2025 · $490k · revenue +114% · 57% of their budget
  • NK
    NEWBORN KITTEN RESCUE INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • SL
    SCULLY LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · 25% of their budget
  • VG
    VALLEY GARDEN CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +59%
  • PM
    PIONEER MUSEUM-AZ HISTORICAL SOCIET
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
Desert Dog Rescue Inc

Animal rescue

Animals
2
Alliance for Arizona Animal Protection

Prevention of animal cruelty and intervention on behalf of animals being abused.

Animals
3
Arizona Sugar Glider Inc

Provides support for sugargliders

Animals
4
Puppy Dog Ranch

A small No Kill Rescue and Sanctuary for unwanted, homeless, abused, neglected, blind, deaf, disabled, medically dependent, special needs and unadoptable dogs and puppies.

Animals
5
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
6
Southwest Cairn Rescue

Dedicated to rescuing, fostering, and placing homeless cairn terriers into suitable and caring life-long homes.

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7
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
8
Arizona Railroad Historical Society
Arts & Culture
9
Phx Cat Cafe

On average, we find homes for over 100 cats each year through our adoption program. In 2024 we fixed 125 cats with our TNR efforts and were able to provide a dozen microchips to owned pets in the community

Animals
10
Believe Ranch and Rescue
Animals
11
Mountain View Animal Rescue

Rescue of abused or abandoned animals

Animals
12
Herding Dog Rescue of Central Oregon

Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florence Crittenton Services of Arizona Inc; the most unlike its peers is All About Animals Rescue Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 26 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
5/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM: $615,000 · OtherDESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUMDOUGLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $355,000 · OtherDOUGLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETYCASA GRANDE VALLEY HIST SOCIETY: $205,000 · OtherCASA GRANDE VALLEY HIST SOCIETYARIZONA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $180,000 · OtherARIZONA PRESERVATION FOUNDATIONBISBEE MINING HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $165,000 · OtherBISBEE MINING HISTORICAL MUSEUMCOCHISE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100,000 · Other+10 more: $286,000 · Other+10 moreCave Creek Museum: $490,000 · Arts & CultureCave Creek MuseumLOST SHEEP RANCH: $100,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $11,000 · Food & NutritionSTREETLIGHTUSA: $60,000 · Crime & LegalEarn Your Spurs Inc: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEWBORN KITTEN RESCUE INC: $20,000 · AnimalsYORKIE LUV RESCUE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsALL ABOUT ANIMALS RESCUE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsVALLEY GARDEN CENTER INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $10,000 · Health
Other$1,906,000Arts & Culture$490,000Food & Nutrition$111,000Crime & Legal$60,000Youth Development$40,000Animals$40,000Environment$30,000Health$10,000

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 budgetDESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM: $615,000 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetCave Creek Museum: $490,000 over 5y, 57% of budgetARIZONA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 6y, 35% of budgetLOST SHEEP RANCH: $100,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF ARIZONA INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSTREETLIGHTUSA: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSCULLY LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetEarn Your Spurs Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetVALLEY GARDEN CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNEWBORN KITTEN RESCUE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYORKIE LUV RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetALL ABOUT ANIMALS RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% 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 DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Cave Creek Museum ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOST SHEEP RANCH ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF ARIZONA INC ↗
  • Who funds STREETLIGHTUSA ↗
  • Who funds SCULLY LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Earn Your Spurs Inc ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY GARDEN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWBORN KITTEN RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds YORKIE LUV RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL ABOUT ANIMALS RESCUE 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.

Arizona Community Fou…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Johnson Historical Museum of the Southwest funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Johnson Historical Museum of the Southwest. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Johnson Historical Museum of the Southwest?

    Find your warmest path to Johnson Historical Museum of the Southwest through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 26 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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