· Private foundation
R L Johnson Family Foundation of Arizona
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $643k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC | $92,000 |
| PHOENIX SEMINARY | $83,520 |
| ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $82,250 |
| GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $70,000 |
| PARADISE VALLEY CHRISTIAN PREPARATORY | $60,000 |
| NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $60,000 |
| NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| THRIVE AZ | $20,000 |
| SCOTTSDALE BIBLE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| JUST MOVED MINISTRY | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of R L Johnson Family Foundation of Arizona’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 62% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE7× · 2018–2024 · $480k · revenue +163%
- VCVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS4× · 2022–2025 · $255k · revenue +26%
- GCGrand Canyon University4× · 2022–2025 · $249k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- WCWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $400k · revenue -11%
- ATALTERED TAILSone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +4%
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +57%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Pacific school of religion prepares a diverse cadre of spiritually rooted leaders with the vision, resilience, and skill to create a world where all can thrive. grounded in the rigorous study and faithful practice of progressive christian…
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Mid-america reformed seminary seeks to serve the church by preparing students for gospel ministry as pastors, or those whose service to the church may be enhanced by theological education.
Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
Provide scholarships to qualifying students at private schools.
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
Ibc exists to empower indigenous christ-followers for ministry to the nations. in order to accomplish this purpose, the goals of indigenous bible college are: 1) to provide the necessary training for accurate interpretation of gods word so…
To partner with parents to provide christ-centered, biblically based, classical education that nurtures the whole child.
To develop christ-centered servant leaders through a challenging academic environment in order to impact the world for the kingdom of god.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Gospel Mission and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALTERED TAILS ↗
- Who funds THRIVE AZ FOSTER CARE PREVENTION REUNIFICATION AND AGED OUT ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds NEW MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHOSEN INC OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds United American Patriots Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Tw Lewis Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Servant Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization R L Johnson Family Foundation of Arizona funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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