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Horton Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$87k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$256kReligion$176kArts & Culture$9kHealth$4kHuman Services$3kPhilanthropy$2kInternational$2kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $74k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC$40,000
ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$34,155
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIION INC$5,000
EAST CAROLINA MUSICAL ARTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$2,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL RELIEF$2,000
THE ROTARY CLUB OF GREENVILLE$2,000
ACADEMY31$1,000
GREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ACADEMY31: $1k → 8%ROTARY DISTRICT D7720 CHARITABLE TRUST: $700 → 13%SAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL RELIEF: $2k → 19%GREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 20%BERTIE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY-DIVISION OF ROANOKE CHOWAN HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1k → 24%MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%NEW LIFE CAMP: $2k → 8%GREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 20%BERTIE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY-DIVISION OF ROANOKE CHOWAN HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $500 → 24%MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%NEW LIFE CAMP: $1k → 8%GREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 20%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $70k → 8%GREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 20%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $55k → 8%GREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 20%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 8%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN: $1k → 20%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $40k → 8%UNIVERSITY CITY KIWANIS CLUB -KIWANIS SANTA PROJECT: $250 → 20%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $35k → 8%UNIVERSITY CITY KIWANIS CLUB -KIWANIS SANTA PROJECT: $200 → 20%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIION INC: $5k → 8%ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $86k → 20%ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $34k → 20%ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $21k → 20%ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $15k → 20%ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $15k → 20%THE ROTARY CLUB OF GREENVILLE: $2k → 20%ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $2k → 20%THE ROTARY CLUB OF GREENVILLE: $1k → 20%THE ROTARY CLUB OF GREENVILLE: $1k → 20%THE ROTARY CLUB OF GREENVILLE: $200 → 20%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$411k · 10 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$411k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+30%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $215k · revenue +450%
  • EC
    East Carolina Musical Arts Education Foundation
    4× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +51%
  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BIBLE MINISTRIES OF NC INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAINgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +30%
  • RD
    ROTARY DISTRICT D7720 CHARITABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2019 · $700
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
North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education
2
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
3
Nc State Natural Resources Foundation Inc

To promote education and research in the college of natural resources of north carolina state university as well as aid and promote, by financial assistance and otherwise, all types of education, research and extension in the college of…

Education
4
Nc State Engineering Foundation Inc

To aid and promote, by financial assistance and otherwise, educational, research, and extension in the college of engineering at north carolina state university

Education
5
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
6
Tri-State Christian Academy Inc

Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…

Education
7
North Carolina Music Educators Association

To advance music education by promoting the understanding and making of music by all.

Arts & Culture
8
The North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc

To aid and promote by financial assitance and otherwise all types of education, research, and other extension within the college of agriculture and life sciences at nc state university.

Health
9
North Carolina State University College of Sciences Foundation Inc

Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.

Philanthropy
10
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
11
The National Arts Club

To stimulate, foster and promote public interest in the arts and to further the education of the public in the fine arts, by welcoming the participation of all artists as well as a diverse group of art patrons.

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12
North Raleigh Christian Academy Inc

Nrca is a community christian school assisting families in providing excellence in academics, fine arts, and athletics while instilling biblical principles in students' lives that they might impact their society for christ.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina State University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

9 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. 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $172,655 · OtherST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC+7 more: $14,050 · Other+7 moreNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $215,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $1,000 · EducationGREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureEast Carolina Musical Arts Education Foundation: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropySAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,000 · Religion
Other$226,705Education$216,000Arts & Culture$9,000Philanthropy$2,000Religion$2,000

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 budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $215,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEast Carolina Musical Arts Education Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S BIBLE MINISTRIES OF NC INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAcademy31 Inc: $1,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Horton Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Horton Family Foundation Inc. 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 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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