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Horton 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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$663kEducation$563kReligion$220kHuman Services$52kHealth$9kArts & Culture$1kCommunity Improvement$1kHousing & Shelter$500
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHEDRAL OF FAITH$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ADVENT GROUP MINISTRIES: $25k → 8%ADVENT GROUP MINISTRIES: $25k → 8%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 9 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$1.5M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+6%

Still filing today

67%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • WJ
    WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $547k · revenue +49%
  • AI
    Agape International Missions
    7× · 2017–2023 · $335k · revenue +119%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $326k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • HL
    HAL LYNDSEY MEDIA MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • SI
    STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +6%
  • LO
    LIVE OAK DAY CARE CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
Redeemed Christian Church of God Jesus House Silicon Valley

Religious purpose

Religion
2
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
3
Sagos Institute of Preaching and Bible Exposition

The mission of our school can be divided into 4 areas:1.To cultivate students exegesis & preaching of the Scriptures rightly based on truth found in Bible. 2.To edify Bible study talents to teach Bible and lead Bible study as the focus of…

Education
4
Pacific Theological Seminary

To deliver biblically-based education and ministry mentoring through graduate-level degree programs.

Education
5
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
6
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
7
Sole Ministries

None

Religion
8
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
9
Youth With a Mission Ventura - Global Strategic Initiatives

The specific purpose of this Corporation is, but not limited to, evangelism; which is to share the love of God expressed in Christ Jesus. To promote evangelism in its many forms, including training and education that promotes the biblical…

Education
10
His University

His university provides graduate and undergraduate degree and diploma education and training for his family ministry specialists who desire to pursue careers in counseling and ministry.

Education
11
Adventist Mountain Missions
Religion
12
Free to Worship Ministries

This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agape International Missions; the most unlike its peers is William Jessup University. 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 22 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY: $546,990 · OtherWILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITYAgape International Missions: $335,000 · OtherAgape International MissionsFRIENDLY BIBLE CHURCH: $199,550 · OtherFRIENDLY BIBLE CHURCH+13 more: $46,250 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $326,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEADVENT GROUP MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSTUDENTS INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 · InternationalDYF: $1,250 · Recreation & SportsLEADERSHIP SUNNYVALE: $1,000 · Community ImprovementPACIFIC HEARING CONNECTION: $1,000 · Health
Other$1,127,790Religion$326,000Human Services$50,000International$2,000Recreation & Sports$1,250Community Improvement$1,000Health$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY: $546,990 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAgape International Missions: $335,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $326,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetADVENT GROUP MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSTUDENTS INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARISI HOUSE ON THE HILL INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDYF: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Agape International Missions ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds ADVENT GROUP MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Guate-Mex Vision Inc ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds PARISI HOUSE ON THE HILL INC ↗
  • Who funds DYF ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP SUNNYVALE ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC HEARING CONNECTION ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA15× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Horton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Horton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    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.

    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 22 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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