How much did HORIZONS FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

HORIZONS FOUNDATION reported 215 grants totaling $7,694,854 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is HORIZONS FOUNDATION based?

HORIZONS FOUNDATION is based in CA.

HORIZONS FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

HORIZONS FOUNDATION

To support nonprofits serving and advocating for lgbtq people through grantmaking and programs; to increase philanthropic giving to lgbtq causes; and to provide for future lgbtq generations and the lgbtq community's long-term future.

$7.7M

Granted FY2023

215

Grants

Communities

$498k

Largest

01What you fund

0168% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.

Arts & Culture$3.3MHealth$2.8MEducation$2.5MHuman Services$2.4MCivil Rights$2.1MHousing & Shelter$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.4MInternational$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.1MOther$12M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

leaderboard winnersongplace givesize leaderboardsustainabilitylos angelessmall size

2020

response covidlatinscholarship awardaward recipientconferencedisabilityaanhpi

2021

depressionanxietyblack livessuicidalityrussellfishrisks

2022

gfef globalresponse covidstanfordalbers-alexander scholarshipscholarship recipientpositive imageslatine neurodivergent

2023

scholarship awardaward recipientalbers-alexander lawlaw scholarshipsharedindigenouslgbtq-inclusive

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 215 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k43 grants · $284k
$10k–50k143 grants · $2.5M
$50k–250k24 grants · $2.4M
$250k+5 grants · $1.8M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$49M

Total assets

Largest grants

OPENHOUSE$497,607
UHAI EASHRI USA INC$460,000
PRESCOTT COLLEGE$305,000
DORIAN FUND$269,552
LAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION$256,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$247,232
COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT AND SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY$200,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS$194,105
OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL$187,440
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$148,650
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$137,500
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$120,250
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA$101,000
IPAS$100,000
YVETTE A FLUNDER FOUNDATION$100,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$26M · 261 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

261 repeat relationships — 157 still active in FY2023, 104 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

261

184

Total granted

$26M

$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+37%

Still filing today

89%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCivil RightsEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

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OPENHOUSE
6× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +138%
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UHAI EASHRI USA INC CO MARC SOKOL
4× · 2020–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +1275%
OA
OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL
6× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +461%

Funded once

V
VARIOUS
one grant, 2022 · $816k
AM
ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $340k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS
one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -10%

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.

Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment

Sacramento Lgbt Community Center

The Center works to create a region where all LGBTQ+ people thrive; we support health and wellness,advocate for equity and justice, and work to uplift our diverse and culturally rich LGBTQ+ community.

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Forward Together

Forward Together unites communities to win rights, recognition and resources for allfamilies.We transform culture and policy to work for all of us nationwide. Since ourfounding in 1989, we have continually fought to dismantle the ways our…

Health

Lavender Rights Project

Lavender Rights Project (LRP) protects Black life by elevating the power, autonomy, and leadership of the Black trans and gender diverse community through intersectional legal and social services. We are fighting for the right to exist…

Crime & Legal

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.

Education

Equality California

To create a world that is healthy, just and fully equal for all lgbtq+ people.

Civil Rights

San Francisco Film Society

San Francisco Film Society (SFFILM) is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and…

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Asian Americans Advancing Justice -

The mission of AAAJ-ALC is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist in the United…

Crime & Legal

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Inspire diverse audiences through exhibitions, education, publications & collections.

Arts & Culture

Center for Domestic Peace

Center for Domestic Peace mobilizes individuals and communities to transform our world so domestic violence no longer exists, creating greater safety, justice, and equality.

Human Services

The Bar Association of San Francisco

Basf is a nonprofit voluntary membership organization of attorneys, law students, and legal professionals in the san francisco bay area which works to promote equal justice for all and oppose discrimination in all forms, including (but not…

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Aclu Foundation of Southern California

See schedule o for detailsthe organization defends the civil liberties enshrined in the us constitution and the bill of rights through litigation, policy advocacy, media advocacy, and organizing. it fights to secure and protect the civil…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom for All Americans Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Mingei International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%6/494

the rest of the field

12%

22,286/186,484

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.

05the grantee network

443 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

156

Early backer (in before they grew)

429/443

Grantees still filing

343/443

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$15,950,770Arts & Culture$3,282,480Health$2,756,283Education$2,502,135Human Services$2,394,638Civil Rights$2,119,882Housing & Shelter$1,904,359

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.

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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA78.6× affinity115 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · East Bay Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Arcus Foundation · Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation

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 organisation HORIZONS FOUNDATION 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LAVENDER SENIORS OF THE EAST BAY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 943337173 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LAVENDER SENIORS OF THE EAST BAY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 86% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Horizons Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Horizons Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HORIZONS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

443 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Horizons Foundation?

More from the funding graph

HORIZONS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

443 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Horizons Foundation?

More from the funding graph