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Foundation for Improving Horizons

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.

$23k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$200
Largest grant, FY2025
$21,400
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$793k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Foundation for Improving Horizons funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$23k20%
FY20245$17k40%
FY202311$19k73%
FY20221$20k0%
FY202112$18k75%
FY20203$2k67%
FY20191$16k0%
FY20182$6kn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$111kPhilanthropy$3kEnvironment$3kArts & Culture$560Membership Benefit$500Education$400Housing & Shelter$298Human Services$250Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
PA
CA
VA
NC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Foundation for Improving Horizons by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Life Charities Inc$107,96982%
National Christian Foundation Inc$3,0001n/a
World Emergency Relief$1,65010%
Eo Wilson Biodiversity Foundation$1,00010%
Wildlens Inc$1,00011%
Technoserve Inc$75020%
Whyy Inc$46030%
Sierra Club$35020%
Habitat for Humanity Inc$2981n/a
Ardmore Free Library$25011%
Oxfam-America Inc$25010%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$25010%
Public Citizen Inc$20010%
Volunteer Medical Serv Corps of Lm & Nar$15010%
Merion Civic Association$1001n/a

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Foundation for Improving Horizons supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLife Charities Inc: $107,969 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetWorld Emergency Relief: $1,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEo Wilson Biodiversity Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlens Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTechnoserve Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhyy Inc: $460 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArdmore Free Library: $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Citizen Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteer Medical Serv Corps of Lm & Nar: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Fund for EducationPA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fund for Education · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Foundation for Improving Horizons?

Find your warmest path to Foundation for Improving Horizons 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.

About Foundation for Improving Horizons

How much does Foundation for Improving Horizons give?
Foundation for Improving Horizons reported 5 grants totaling $22,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Foundation for Improving Horizons fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (92%), Philanthropy (3%), Environment (2%).
Who are Foundation for Improving Horizons's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Life Charities Inc ($108k), National Christian Foundation Inc ($3k), World Emergency Relief ($2k).
Does Foundation for Improving Horizons fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Foundation for Improving Horizons accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for Improving Horizons?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fund for Education, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Foundation for Improving Horizons based?
Foundation for Improving Horizons is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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