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Hornthal 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.

$251k
Granted FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$626kPhilanthropy$204kCivil Rights$93kHuman Services$74kFood & Nutrition$53kPublic Benefit$44kArts & Culture$33kCommunity Improvement$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k67 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$1,023
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAIR TO STAY$50,627
TED FOUNDATION$26,521
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT$25,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$25,000
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA FOUNDATION$10,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO$7,500
SF-MARIN FOOD BANK$7,500
CONGREGATION RODEF SHOLOM$5,485
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN$5,000
SF JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL$5,000
QUANTUM LEAP FARM INC$5,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SF$5,000
JDC$5,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$4,500
FEEDING AMERICA$3,579
02The need
03

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 (FY18–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $41k → 10%SURVIVING IN NUMBERS: $1k → 8%MARINLINK INC: $7k → 8%MARINLINK: $29 → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $15k → 10%COMMUNITY VENTURE PARTNERS INC: $2k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $8k → 10%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $1k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $349 → 10%CASA DE ANGELES FOUNDATION: $300 → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $518 → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $511 → 10%BRIGID ALLIANCE OF NY (BRIGIDALLIIANCEORG): $2k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500 → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $200 → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $104 → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $900 → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $829 → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $800 → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $156 → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $156 → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $150 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL

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 — 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 71 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

71 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
43

Total granted

$1.1M
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+30%

Still filing today

76%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • H
    HAIRTOSTAY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $486k · revenue +64%
  • TS
    THE SAPLING FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · $111k · revenue +911%
  • RF
    REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +194%

Funded once

  • GL
    GIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -77%
  • SG
    Stern Grove Festival Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +60%
  • A(
    AID (AMERICAN-ISRAEL DEMOCRACY) COALITION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

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.

1
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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2
Aids Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area

Our mission is to advance and protect the rights, dignity, and health of people living with hiv/aids in the bay area. continued on schedule owe accomplish this through direct legal representation by one of our staff attorneys, by careful…

Health
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
Pangea Legal Services

Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
5
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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6
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
7
Alliance for Safety and Justice

Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization,…

Crime & Legal
8
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
The Justice and Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco

The justice & diversity center (jdc) advances fairness and equality by providing pro bono legal services to low-income people and educational opportunities that foster diversity in the legal profession.

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Casa de Angeles Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyJewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Pregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity Food PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Local History MuseumsChristian Missionary Organi…Youth Sports ProgramsUnited Way AffiliatesAnimal Rescue and ShelterYouth Development ServicesYouth Development CentersCancer Support Services
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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%58%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr11%11%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/99
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,879

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.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 142 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/96
Grantees still filing
69/96
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAIRTOSTAY — $486,265 · HealthHAIRTOSTAYFAMILY HOUSE INC — $18,600 · Health+9 more — $32,603 · Health+9 moreIndividual grant recipient — $47,723 · OtherIndividual grant recipientREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $45,000 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOU…SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $25,743 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKUCSF — $25,650 · OtherUCSFPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $17,173 · Other+88 more — $216,705 · Other+88 moreTHE SAPLING FOUNDATION — $111,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAPLING FOU…GIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC — $35,350 · PhilanthropyGIVE LIVELY FOU…JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $29,600 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNIT…+6 more — $10,160 · Philanthropy+6 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $63,349 · Human ServicesMARIN LINK INC — $7,029 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $6,772 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth Services — $3,858 · Human Services+7 more — $9,537 · Human ServicesPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $43,718 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $8,475 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $4,510 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $3,858 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $3,543 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $3,036 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC — $2,944 · Civil Rights+3 more — $4,463 · Civil RightsUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC — $2,250 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,250 · Education+4 more — $2,190 · EducationTED FOUNDATION INC — $26,521 · Community Improvement
Health$537,468Other$377,994Philanthropy$186,110Human Services$90,545Civil Rights$74,547Education$30,690Community Improvement$26,521

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAIRTOSTAY — $486,265 over 7y, 10% of budgetTHE SAPLING FOUNDATION — $111,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $63,349 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $43,718 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC — $35,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $29,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTED FOUNDATION INC — $26,521 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $25,743 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC — $18,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Film Institute — $11,875 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $10,172 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHRIGHT 360 — $9,249 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $8,475 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $8,409 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $7,975 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $7,917 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION — $7,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStern Grove Festival Association — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARIN LINK INC — $7,029 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $6,811 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $6,772 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS — $5,722 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetQUANTUM LEAP FARM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Open Hand — $4,772 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENLIGHT CLINIC — $4,559 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $4,510 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $3,858 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $3,858 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $3,543 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON FAMILIES — $3,397 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,355 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM — $3,049 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $3,036 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $2,944 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,833 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $2,796 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANS OF SAN QUENTIN — $2,792 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOakland Elizabeth House — $2,779 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLava Mae — $2,644 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetCRISSY FIELD DOG GROUP INC — $2,592 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $2,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $2,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Ralph & Marsha Guggen…Silicon Valley Commun…Lisa & Douglas Goldma…Horizons FoundationMcNabb FoundationLisa Stone Pritzker F…John Pritzker Family …The Yelp FoundationKoret Foundation
Marin Community FoundationCA32.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Horizons Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Fund · John Pritzker Family Fund · The Yelp Foundation · Koret 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 organization Hornthal Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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: 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 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 142 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines