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Johnson Family Foundation Inc

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.

$450k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$1.6MAnimals$308kReligion$271kInternational$255kEducation$227kHousing & Shelter$177kHealth$175kCrime & Legal$103kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NOT MY KID$100,000
CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA$50,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$50,000
ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN$50,000
ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION$25,000
UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC$25,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$25,000
ST JUDES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$25,000
MAKE-A-WISH ARIZONA$15,000
AHEPA 219 ECF$10,000
BENEVILLA$10,000
SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONS CENTER$10,000
ANDRES HOUSE$10,000
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARY$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN: $50k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN: $25k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN: $25k → 11%LIVING HOPE WOMEN'S CENTERS: $5k → 26%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK: $2k → 14%LIVING HOPE WOMEN'S CENTERS: $5k → 26%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN: $25k → 11%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK: $1k → 14%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN: $25k → 11%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK: $1k → 14%YAVAPAI FOOD BANK: $1k → 14%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN: $25k → 11%MAGGIES PLACE: $10k → 11%CHRYSALIS: $25k → 11%CHRYSALIS: $10k → 11%CHRYSALIS: $10k → 11%CHRYSALIS: $10k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $25k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $20k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $20k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $20k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $20k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $10k → 11%BENEVILLA: $10k → 11%BENEVILLA: $10k → 11%BENEVILLA: $10k → 11%BENEVILLA: $10k → 11%NOT MY KID: $217k → 11%NOT MY KID: $200k → 11%NOT MY KID: $100k → 11%NOT MY KID: $100k → 11%NOT MY KID: $100k → 11%NOT MY KID: $30k → 11%NOT MY KID: $30k → 11%NOT MY KID: $10k → 11%NOT MY KID: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 33 repeat orgs$246k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
22

Total granted

$3.0M
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+33%

Still filing today

52%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsHealthReligionOther

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

  • N
    NOTMYKID
    9× · 2017–2025 · $790k · revenue +249%
  • DC
    DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
    8× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +71%
  • AH
    Arizona Humane Society
    8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • HF
    HONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +29%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • P
    PCSO
    one grant, 2023 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

2
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
3
Foster 360

Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.

Human Services
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

6
Tucson Centers for Women & Children Inc Dba Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse

Emerge center against domestic abuse provides the opportunity to create, sustain, and celebrate a life free from abuse.

Human Services
7
Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health
8
Ymca of Southern Arizona

Ymca of southern arizona is dedicated to improving the quality of human life and helping all people realize their fullest potential through the development of spirit, mind and body. we are a powerful association of men, women and children,…

Human Services
9
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
10
Arizona's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services
11
Family Promise - Greater Phoenix

Enable families on the precipice of homelessness, or currently experiencing homelessness, to sustain or gain employment, independent housing and self-sufficiency.

Religion
12
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

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,…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foster Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Arizona Small Dog Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr16%8%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr15%39%20–35yr11%35%35–55yr11%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr15%65%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr11%1%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/32
the rest of the field
16%
3,932/25,303

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

28 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NOTMYKID — $790,000 · Human ServicesNOTMYKIDArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation — $175,000 · Human ServicesArizona Friends of Foster Children FoundationRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA — $115,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND …FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Human ServicesFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATIONSOJOURNER CENTER — $60,000 · Human ServicesChrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc — $55,000 · Human Services+5 more — $67,500 · Human ServicesSTEPS OF LOVE — $250,000 · OtherSTEPS OF LOVEAHEPA 219 ECF — $92,000 · OtherAHEPA 219 ECFSMITHSONIAN LIBRARY — $60,000 · OtherSMITHSONIAN LIBRARYWHISPERING HOPE RANCH — $55,000 · OtherWHISPERING HOPE RANCHPCSO CITIZENS ON PATROL — $55,000 · OtherPCSO CITIZENS ON PATROLST JUDES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $50,000 · OtherANDRES HOUSE — $42,000 · OtherSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONS CENTER — $41,000 · OtherCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA — $105,000 · OtherCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA+28 more — $258,475 · Other+28 moreARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $120,000 · EducationTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE — $120,000 · EducationDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $235,000 · ReligionArizona Humane Society — $180,000 · AnimalsArizona Small Dog Rescue — $7,000 · AnimalsUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $125,000 · Housing & ShelterHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthBRING CHANGE 2 MIND — $10,000 · Health
Human Services$1,362,500Other$1,008,475Education$240,000Religion$235,000Animals$187,000Housing & Shelter$125,000Health$110,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNOTMYKID — $790,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetSTEPS OF LOVE — $250,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $235,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Humane Society — $180,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation — $175,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE — $120,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA — $115,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA — $105,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSOJOURNER CENTER — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc — $55,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC DBA BENEVILLA — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCRIBS FOR KIDS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING HOPE WOMEN'S CENTERS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBRING CHANGE 2 MIND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Small Dog Rescue — $7,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYavapai Food Bank Inc — $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetScottsdale Youth Football Association — $3,075 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetARIZONA ANTI-TRAFFICKING NETWORK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDEER VALLEY POP WARNER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget100 CLUB OF ARIZONA — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NOTMYKID
  • Who funds STEPS OF LOVE
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
  • Who funds Arizona Humane Society
  • Who funds Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation
  • Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE FOSTER ALLIANCE
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA
  • Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA
  • Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER
  • Who funds Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc
  • Who funds SUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC DBA BENEVILLA
  • Who funds CRIBS FOR KIDS INC
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
  • Who funds LIVING HOPE WOMEN'S CENTERS
  • Who funds BRING CHANGE 2 MIND
  • Who funds MAGGIE'S PLACE INC
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds Arizona Small Dog Rescue

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ20× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Johnson Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Johnson Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Johnson Family Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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