How much did Horizons Unlimited Foundation grant in FY2020?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of Horizons Unlimited Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2019

hope

2020

youthintervention

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

03FY2020 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

Under $10k16 grants · $90k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$6,250

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

Asheville Music School$10,000
Hope Haven$9,600
Adventure Works$8,700
Suicide Prevention Services$7,800
Archi-Treasures$7,800
Youth Engaged in Philanthropy (at DeKalb County Community Foundation$6,900
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project$6,750
DeKalb County Community Gardens$6,600
DeKalb County Youth Service Bureau$6,250
DeKalb County Community Foundation$5,000
Friends of DeKalb Regional Office of Education$5,000
Canine Therapy Corps$4,550
Oaken Acres Wildlife Center$4,500
Shelter Care Ministries$3,300
Literacy Volunteers Fox Valley$3,150

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 (FY18–20, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$166k · 13 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$166k

$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+82%

Still filing today

77%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEmploymentHousing & ShelterOther

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

CL
Children's Learning Center
2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +7%
SP
Suicide Prevention Services
2× · 2019–2020 · $16k · revenue +61%
FA
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project
2× · 2019–2020 · $14k · revenue +913%

Funded once

SP
Safe Passagegraduated
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +82%
DC
DeKalb County History Centergraduated
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +341%
TF
TriCity Family Servicesgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +74%

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.

Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services

Elder Care Services

Elder care services of dekalb county, inc. was established to promote and further the welfare of senior citizens and their families who live in dekalb county, through the provision of services which improve their well being.

Crime & Legal

Childrens Advocacy Center of

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal

Care Partners of Cook County

Care Partners of Cook County provides support and companionship on the journey of aging and serious illness

Human Services

Illinois Community for Displaced

Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.

Human Services

Casa Dekalb County Inc

Provide advocacy services to abused and neglected children

Civil Rights

Family Counseling Services of No Il

To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive

Human Services

DuPage Homeownership Center Inc

Promote responsible sustainable homeownership, with an emphasis on serving first time homebuyers,low and moderate income households and homeowners in crisis.

Housing & Shelter

Child Care Resource & Referral

Child Care Resource and Referral promotes and facilitates affordable quality child care through assistance, education and advocacy in Will, Grundy, Kendall, and Kankakee counties.

Human Services

Family Service Agency of Dekalb

Family service agency exists to strengthen people and communities through hope, healing and engagement.

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Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses.

Health

Literacy DuPage

To Provide Accessible and Customized Tutoring in Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Understanding English to Help Adults Achieve Independence.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dekalb County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dekalb County History Center. 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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/22

the rest of the field

13%

4,568/33,941

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

21 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)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

19/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$130,700Human Services$52,650Health$24,350Arts & Culture$15,100Employment$13,750Community Improvement$11,600Housing & Shelter$7,300Philanthropy$5,000

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.

Dekalb County Community FoundationIL22.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dekalb County Community Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Northern Illinois Food Bank · The Chicago Community Trust · George E& Betty Bdutton Foundation · Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts · Ideal Industries Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox · Alliant Credit Union Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc

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 Unlimited 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: Still Point Theatre Collective.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 271358607 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 Still Point Theatre Collective, 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.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
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 Unlimited Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Horizons Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Horizons Unlimited Foundation?

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Horizons Unlimited 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

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Horizons Unlimited Foundation?

More from the funding graph