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Horst Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $230k
- $250k+1 grant · $322k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE | $322,000 |
| ALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES | $68,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIANS & JEWS | $54,000 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION | $54,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $54,000 |
| TEN MILLION FOR CHRIST | $36,000 |
| FAMILY TALK | $36,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $24,000 |
| CARE-NET | $24,000 |
| HOLY LAND MISSIONS | $24,000 |
| SUSEK EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION | $18,000 |
| FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE | $12,000 |
| JEWS FOR JESUS | $12,000 |
| ALLEN JACKSON MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| TURNING POINT MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PFPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $891k · revenue +148%
- DJDr James Dobson Family Institute9× · 2017–2025 · $374k · revenue +62%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- STSKY TREE BOOK FAIRSone grant, 2024 · $5k
- SBSusan B Anthony List Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +60%
- P1Psalm 119 Association Incone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…
Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.
To strengthen marriages and families, to encourage Christian fellowship as we evangelize the lost around us and minister to the needy with the resources God has blessed us.
To deliver the message of Jesus
Biblical counseling
Support local churches, leaders, and christians from around the world through online content that strengthens and affirms their life in christ. committed to using every means possible to reach every age and life stage with the gospel…
Religious studies
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rbc Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Ten Million for Christ. 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 51 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Dr James Dobson Family Institute ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds ALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE JOSHUA FUND ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Care Net ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JESUSONLINE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds TEN MILLION FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC LANCASTER EPA CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds WINGFIELD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY LAND MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ASCEND CLINICAL SERVICES DBA NAAMAN CLINICAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RBC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HIS CREATION ↗
- Who funds FATHERS IN THE FIELD ↗
- Who funds Susan B Anthony List Inc ↗
- Who funds Psalm 119 Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Renew World Outreach Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Eden Bridge Foundation · Anabaptist Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 organization Horst 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.
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.
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