Iowa · Nonprofit
ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION
ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,103,337 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,015,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Zach Johnson Foundation does
Mission
The foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping children and their families in cedar rapids, iowa lead happy, healthy lives. The foundation achieves these goals by improving quality of life, education and well-being through a number of different fundraising and awareness initiatives. The foundation coordinates and sponsors programs which focus on helping the academic achievement of children from low-income families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization sponsors and coordinates the kids on course program in cedar rapids area elementary, middle and high schools. Kids on course is designed to help students realize their academic and development potential, through experiences in the arts and sciences, fitness and nutrition and more. The program provides tutoring and enrichment opportunities for students, breaks down barriers that prevent success inside and outside the classroom, engages the families of students and provides academic support so all participating students are at grade level in reading and math.
$1,603,566 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,603,566.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.7M to $4.4M (+20%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 13% · 2020 20% · 2021 26% · 2022 8% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Brent Cobb
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $501k → $594k.
11 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 52% · 2019 53% · 2020 38% · 2021 50% · 2022 30% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
53% of ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION?
- ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,103,337 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,015,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $5,103,337 in grants to ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,015,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 33 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing