How much did JOHN AND ROBYN HORN FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of JOHN AND ROBYN HORN FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

residencefurniturearts

2019

expansionarts

2020

workshopstudiocraft

2021

printing museumyoungfutureartistslandwoodcraft

2022

littleprogrammingtheaterresidencyequipmentcraftstudio

2023

visitingwooddesignequipmentcraftpenland

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k10 grants · $260k
$50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFT$150,000
CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN$115,000
ARROWMONT SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS$100,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$100,000
ARKANSAS PBS FOUNDATION$100,000
POCOSIN ARTS INC$100,000
STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER$100,000
ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$75,000
CRAFTING THE FUTURE$50,000
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
ARTHUR MORGAN SCHOOL$50,000
ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$50,000
GOGGLEWORKS$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS$50,000
BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER$50,000

02The need

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 (FY17–23, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.9M · 40 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.9M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+16%

Still filing today

60%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

PS
PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFTS
5× · 2018–2023 · $580k · revenue +14%
PA
POCOSIN ARTS INC
5× · 2017–2023 · $225k · revenue +149%
NY
NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP
4× · 2017–2023 · $200k · revenue +56%

Funded once

HW
HAMILTON WOOD TYPE & PRINTING MUSEUMgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +155%
IP
INERNATIONAL PRINTING MUSEUM FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $100k
CC
CONSERVING CAROLINAgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +51%

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.

Arkansas Craft School

To educate aspiring and practicing craft artisans for success in the creative economy

Arts & Culture

Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education

Craft Contemporary

Craft contemporary reveals the potential of craft to educate, captivate, provoke, and empower. with a focus on contemporary art made from craft media and processes, craft contemporary presents dynamic exhibitions by established and…

Arts & Culture

Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.

Arts & Culture

New York School of the Arts Inc

New york school of the arts, inc. is a school offering courses and specialized workshops in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking,art theory and other subjects.

Education

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

The utah museum of contemporary art believes in the power of the art of our time. through programming, advocacy, and collaboration, we work with artists and communities to build a better world.

Arts & Culture

Kentucky College of Art Design

The kentucky college of art and design promotes a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.

Education

The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture

South Carolina Artisans Center

The center displays the work of over 230 sc artists on a consignment basis. educational and cultural demonstrations are scheduled on a regular basis to the public.

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Museum of Contemporary Art

Mocad is where adventurous minds encounter the best in contemporary visual, literary, music, and performing arts. a responsive center for diverse audiences, mocad presents art that contextualizes, interprets and expands culture, pushing us…

Arts & Culture

Center for Furniture Craftsmanship

To provide the best possible education for people who want to design and build functional, beautiful, expressive work out of wood to the highest standard of craftsmanship.

Education

Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Penland School of Craft and the most unlike its peers is The Clay Studio. 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.

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 34 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/55

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,510

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.

05the grantee network

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/55

Grantees still filing

37/55

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,070,869Arts & Culture$2,275,038Education$527,523Environment$300,000Human Services$219,000Food & Nutrition$60,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Philanthropy$20,000

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.

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.

Windgate Charitable Foundation IncAR52.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Arvest Foundation · The Maxwellhanrahan Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · John R & Judy W Fletcher Family · Lpr Foundation · Munro Foundation · The Hussman Foundation · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · The Methodist Foundation for Arkansas

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 organisation JOHN AND ROBYN HORN FOUNDATION INC 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: OPERA IN THE ROCK INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 3.1× since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 455524555 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on OPERA IN THE ROCK INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 46% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to John and Robyn Horn Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to John and Robyn Horn Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JOHN AND ROBYN HORN FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John and Robyn Horn Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

JOHN AND ROBYN HORN FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John and Robyn Horn Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph