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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.

$863k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$322k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.7MHuman Services$1.2MCivil Rights$380kInternational$251kArts & Culture$91kYouth Development$70kHealth$54kEducation$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $270k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $230k
  • $250k+1 grant · $322k
$12,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE$322,000
ALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES$68,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$54,000
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION$54,000
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIANS & JEWS$54,000
FAMILY TALK$36,000
TEN MILLION FOR CHRIST$36,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$24,000
CARE-NET$24,000
HOLY LAND MISSIONS$24,000
SUSEK EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION$18,000
ALLEN JACKSON MINISTRIES$12,000
ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE$12,000
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS USA$12,000
TURNING POINT MINISTRIES$12,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $322k → 12%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $12k → 14%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $304k → 12%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $12k → 14%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $130k → 12%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $12k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $12k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $12k → 14%TEEN CHALLENGE TRAINING CENTER: $12k → 11%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $12k → 14%TEEN CHALLENGE TRAINING CENTER: $6k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $30k → 12%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $10k → 14%TEEN CHALLENGE TRAINING CENTER: $6k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $29k → 12%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $6k → 14%TEEN CHALLENGE TRAINING CENTER: $6k → 11%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $6k → 14%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $24k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $22k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $18k → 12%HOUSE OF HIS CREATION: $6k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $12k → 12%HOUSE OF HIS CREATION: $4k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 36 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
15

Total granted

$3.9M
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+28%

Still filing today

58%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • PF
    PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $891k · revenue +148%
  • DJ
    Dr James Dobson Family Institute
    9× · 2017–2025 · $374k · revenue +62%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • ST
    SKY TREE BOOK FAIRS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • RW
    Renew World Outreach Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD INDIA
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.

1
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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2
Probe Ministries International

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…

Religion
3
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
4
Bible Thinker Inc

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…

Religion
5
Jesus Ministries International

Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.

Religion
6
Redeemed Christian Church of God

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.

Religion
7
Puzzle Piece Ministries

To deliver the message of Jesus

Religion
8
Explore God Network
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9
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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10
For the Gospel Ministries

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…

Religion
11
Restation Fellowship in Messiah

Religious studies

Religion
12
North America Bible Institute

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rbc Ministries; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 51 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $222,000 · OtherBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATIONALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES: $193,500 · OtherALIGN LIFE MINISTRIESPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY COUNCIL: $191,500 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY COUNCILINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIANS & JEWS: $171,500 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIANS & JE…SUSEK EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION: $168,000 · OtherSUSEK EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATIONFRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES: $68,500 · OtherTHE NAVIGATORS: $62,000 · OtherADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE: $60,000 · OtherCPYU: $56,000 · Other+16 more: $205,400 · Other+16 moreDr James Dobson Family Institute: $373,500 · ReligionDr James Dobson Family Instit…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $250,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSETHE JOSHUA FUND: $116,000 · ReligionTHE JOSHUA FUNDJESUSONLINE MINISTRIES: $62,000 · ReligionJESUSONLINE MINISTRIESTURNING POINT COUNSELING INC: $62,000 · ReligionTURNING POINT COUNSELING INCTEN MILLION FOR CHRIST: $54,000 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $54,000 · ReligionWINGFIELD MINISTRIES INC: $42,500 · Religion+4 more: $20,950 · ReligionPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $890,500 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTEFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $94,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL+2 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $216,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE D…Care Net: $84,000 · Civil RightsCare NetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $72,000 · Civil RightsFIRST LIBE…+2 more: $2,500 · Civil RightsANCHOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $30,100 · EducationSusan B Anthony List Inc: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationHOLY LAND MISSIONS: $36,000 · InternationalFATHERS IN THE FIELD: $9,500 · Youth Development
Other$1,398,400Religion$1,034,950Human Services$1,024,500Civil Rights$374,500Education$36,100International$36,000Youth Development$9,500

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 budgetPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $890,500 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetDr James Dobson Family Institute: $373,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $250,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $216,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES: $193,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY COUNCIL: $191,500 over 8y, 27% of budgetTHE JOSHUA FUND: $116,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $94,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCare Net: $84,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $72,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJESUSONLINE MINISTRIES: $62,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTURNING POINT COUNSELING INC: $62,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetTEN MILLION FOR CHRIST: $54,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $54,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC LANCASTER EPA CHAPTER: $44,400 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetWINGFIELD MINISTRIES INC: $42,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetHOLY LAND MISSIONS: $36,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetANCHOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $30,100 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetASCEND CLINICAL SERVICES DBA NAAMAN CLINICAL SERVICES: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRBC MINISTRIES: $10,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF HIS CREATION: $10,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFATHERS IN THE FIELD: $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSusan B Anthony List Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPsalm 119 Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmericans United for Life Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIBLE VISUALS INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoral Ridge Ministries Media Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 Renew World Outreach Inc ↗
  • Who funds Susan B Anthony List Inc ↗
  • Who funds Psalm 119 Association Inc ↗

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.

Christian Community F…Lancaster County Comm…Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Eden Bridge FoundationAnabaptist FoundationRaymond James Charita…Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…
Christian Community Foundation IncCO21× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Horst Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Horst Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Horst Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Horst 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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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