California · Public charity
Joni and Friends
To glorify god as we communicate the gospel and mobilize the global church to evangelize, disciple, and serve people living with disability.
- $9.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $70k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $61,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $61,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $41M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Joni and Friends funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318k 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 | 2 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $380k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $306k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $8.2M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $67k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $106k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joni and Friends Foundation | $8,000,000 | 1 | 81% |
| Wild Ops | $443,000 | 5 | 32% |
| Quiet Waters Ministries Inc | $307,833 | 1 | 33% |
| Sos Ministries Inc | $257,055 | 4 | 5% |
| ZDL Holdings LLC | $36,685 | 1 | n/a |
| Bethany Fellowship Inc | $19,140 | 2 | n/a |
| Reconcile Church La | $16,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Christian Leadership Alliance | $8,600 | 1 | 1% |
| Hurdling Handicaps Speaking Ministries Inc | $5,210 | 1 | 8% |
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Joni and Friends
- How much does Joni and Friends give?
- Joni and Friends reported 2 itemized grants totaling $70,240, out of $9,121,039 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Joni and Friends fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (92%), Religion (4%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Joni and Friends's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Joni and Friends Foundation ($8.0M), Wild Ops ($443k), Quiet Waters Ministries Inc ($308k).
- Does Joni and Friends fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joni and Friends?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Joni and Friends based?
- Joni and Friends is based in CA.
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