· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $60,000 |
| THRIVE AZ | $20,000 |
| SCOTTSDALE BIBLE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| JUST MOVED MINISTRY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 22% of R L Johnson Family Foundation of Arizona’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 62%.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 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.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization R L Johnson Family Foundation of Arizona funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R L Johnson Family Foundation of Arizona. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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