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Horning Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Civil Rights$990kYouth Development$360kCrime & Legal$300kPhilanthropy$207kPublic Benefit$100kArts & Culture$50kHousing & Shelter$40k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $350k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING INSTITUTE OF ALEXANDRIA INCORPORATED$50,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$50,000
OAR OF ARLINGTON ALEXANDRIA AND FALLS CHURCH$50,000
MISSION EDGE$50,000
TEACH REACH INSPIRE BUILD EMPOWER INC$50,000
COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR SAFE SPACES$50,000
ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION$50,000
BROOKLAND MANOR & BRENTWOOD VILLAGE TENANTS ASSOCIATION$45,000
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEER SUPPORT$40,000
THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC$40,000
WHO SPEAKS FOR ME$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEER SUPPORT: $40k → 15%OPEN COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC: $40k → 14%OAR OF ARLINGTON ALEXANDRIA AND FALLS CHURCH: $50k → 7%PARENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING INSTITUTE OF ALEXANDRIA INCORPORATED: $50k → 9%NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEER SUPPORT: $40k → 8%OPEN COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR SAFE SPACES: $50k → 14%OAR OF ARLINGTON ALEXANDRIA AND FALLS CHURCH: $50k → 7%PARENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING INSTITUTE OF ALEXANDRIA INCORPORATED: $50k → 9%NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEER SUPPORT: $40k → 8%ONE DC: $20k → 14%OAR OF ARLINGTON ALEXANDRIA AND FALLS CHURCH: $50k → 7%PARENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING INSTITUTE OF ALEXANDRIA INCORPORATED: $50k → 9%NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEER SUPPORT: $40k → 8%ONE DC: $20k → 14%OAR OF ARLINGTON ALEXANDRIA AND FALLS CHURCH: $50k → 7%PARENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING INSTITUTE OF ALEXANDRIA INCORPORATED: $50k → 9%MISSION EDGE: $50k → 8%BROOKLAND MANOR & BRENTWOOD VILLAGE TENANTS ASSOCIATION: $45k → 14%MISSION EDGE: $50k → 8%BROOKLAND MANOR & BRENTWOOD VILLAGE TENANTS ASSOCIATION: $45k → 14%BROOKLAND MANOR & BRENTWOOD VILLAGE TENANTS ASSOCIATION: $45k → 14%BROOKLAND MANOR & BRENTWOOD VILLAGE TENANTS ASSOCIATION: $45k → 14%TEACH REACH INSPIRE BUILD EMPOWER INC: $50k → 14%TEACH REACH INSPIRE BUILD EMPOWER INC: $50k → 14%TEACH REACH INSPIRE BUILD EMPOWER INC: $50k → 14%TEACH REACH INSPIRE BUILD EMPOWER INC: $50k → 14%EUGENE AND AGNES E MEYER FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%GRASSROOTS DC: $50k → 14%COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR SAFE SPACES: $50k → 14%GRASSROOTS DC: $50k → 14%COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR SAFE SPACES: $50k → 14%GRASSROOTS DC: $50k → 14%COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR SAFE SPACES: $50k → 14%WHO SPEAKS FOR ME: $25k → 14%THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC: $40k → 14%WHO SPEAKS FOR ME: $25k → 14%THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC: $40k → 14%WHO SPEAKS FOR ME: $25k → 14%THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC: $40k → 14%WHO SPEAKS FOR ME: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 12 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$1.8M
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-45%
+991%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthPublic BenefitPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OA
    Offender Aid & Restoration Arlington Co OAR Arlington Alexandria Falls Church
    4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +15%
  • THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $160k · revenue +6%
  • WS
    Who Speaks for Me Project
    4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • EA
    EUGENE & AGNES E MEYER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +991%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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The Conversationalist
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2
Open Dc
Community Improvement
3
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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4
The Equity Network
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5
Beyond These Walls

Beyond These Walls supports LGBTQ people impacted by incarceration in Oregon by providing direct service housing and advocacy.

Civil Rights
6
Gender Equality Network Usa Inc

Global Network Building for Gender Equality and Women's Rights Activists: Fostering exchange, collaboration, and mutual support for joint efforts in capacity building and technical assistance, while deepening the understanding of gender…

Civil Rights
7
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
8
First Look Institute Inc

First Look Institute supports fearless investigative journalism, innovative and cinematic nonfiction filmmaking, and press freedom initiatives to protect the right to a free and open society and press.

Arts & Culture
9
Pro-Equity Anti-Racism Institute
Philanthropy
10
Finding Our Voices
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11
Foundation for a Just Society
Philanthropy
12
Massachusetts Women of Color Network Inc

The Massachusetts Women of Color Network supports the leadership and sustainment of women of color working in the sexual and domestic violence movement in Massachusetts

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tides Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING INSTITUTE OF ALEXANDRIA INCORPORATED: $200,000 · OtherPARENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING INSTITUT…BROOKLAND MANOR & BRENTWOOD VILLAGE TENANTS ASSOCIATION: $180,000 · OtherBROOKLAND MANOR & BRENTWOOD VILLAGE…GRASSROOTS DC: $150,000 · OtherGRASSROOTS DCMISSION EDGE: $100,000 · OtherMISSION EDGE+1 more: $7,000 · OtherTEACH REACH INSPIRE BUILD EMPOWER: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEACH REACH INSPIRE…THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BLACK SWAN ACAD…TIDES FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLECTIVE F…Offender Aid & Restoration Arlington Co OAR Arlington Alexandria Falls Church: $200,000 · Crime & LegalOffender Aid & R…Who Speaks for Me Project: $100,000 · Crime & LegalWho Speaks for M…COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR SAFE SPACES: $200,000 · HealthCOLLECTIVE …NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEER SUPPORT: $160,000 · Public BenefitALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Civil RightsORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOOD EQUITY: $40,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$637,000Youth Development$360,000Philanthropy$300,000Crime & Legal$300,000Health$200,000Public Benefit$160,000Civil Rights$50,000Housing & Shelter$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEACH REACH INSPIRE BUILD EMPOWER: $200,000 over 4y, 85% of budgetCOLLECTIVE ACTION FOR SAFE SPACES: $200,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetOffender Aid & Restoration Arlington Co OAR Arlington Alexandria Falls Church: $200,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTHE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC: $160,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEER SUPPORT: $160,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWho Speaks for Me Project: $100,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOOD EQUITY: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetEUGENE & AGNES E MEYER FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Greater Washington Co…If FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Eugene & Agnes E Meyer FoundationDC17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · If Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Horning Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Horning Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Horning Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Horning Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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