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John and Robyn Horn Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2023
27
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Arts & Culture$4.5MEnvironment$1.1MEducation$671kYouth Development$325kHuman Services$225kCommunity Improvement$200kHousing & Shelter$155kFood & Nutrition$85kOther$0
02FY2023 · 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
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFT$150,000
CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN$115,000
ARROWMONT SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS$100,000
STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER$100,000
POCOSIN ARTS INC$100,000
ARKANSAS PBS FOUNDATION$100,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$100,000
ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$75,000
ARTHUR MORGAN SCHOOL$50,000
CRAFTING THE FUTURE$50,000
WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST$50,000
GOGGLEWORKS$50,000
ARGENTA COMMUNITY THEATRE$50,000
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
02The need
03

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%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER: $25k → 19%BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER: $24k → 19%BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER: $20k → 19%BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER: $50k → 19%THEA FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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WA
MT
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
KY
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AR
TN
NC
SC
OK
LA
MS
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 15% of John and Robyn Horn Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

John and Robyn Horn Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 38 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 +58% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
40

Total granted

$4.9M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
-2%

Still filing today

74%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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 Craft
    5× · 2018–2023 · $580k · revenue +40%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $390k · revenue +53%
  • AE
    ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $250k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM OF PRINTING INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -19% · 33% of their budget
  • HW
    HAMILTON WOOD TYPE & PRINTING MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +61%
  • CC
    Conserving Carolinagraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +37%

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.

1
Atlanta Contempory Art Center Inc

Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.

Arts & Culture
2
Craft Contemporary

Craft contemporary challenges established ideas about craft and folk art and engages people through diverse exhibitions and programs.

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
4
New York Academy of Art

The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…

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5
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
6
Redux Contemporary Art Center

Redux contemporary art center is committed to fostering creativity and the cultivation of contemporary art through diverse exhibitions, affordable studio space for visual artists, meaningful education and outreach programs, and a…

Arts & Culture
7
McColl Center for Art Innovation

We envision a community where contemporary artists and an engaged public enhance their creative capacity through relevant, diverse, and accessible experiences.

Arts & Culture
8
The Center for Contemporary Art

To provide a vibrant, contemporary cultural center through arts education, exhibitions and community outreach that will inspire creativity and enhance people's lives

Arts & Culture
9
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Arnot Art Museum

The arnot art museum is an exhibiting and collecting fine arts museum, accredited by the american association of museums. the museum exhibits its permanent collection of 17th-19th century european paintings and sculpture; 19th century…

Arts & Culture
12
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

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

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 Saluda Pop-Up Pantry. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsAffordable Housing Construc…Dance Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts CentersLocal History MuseumsCommunity College Foundatio…Affordable Housing Developm…
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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%26%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/64
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,501

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

63 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. 63 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/63
Grantees still filing
40/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $995,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCRAFTING THE FUTURE — $292,100 · OtherCRAFTING THE FUTUREVINEYARD THEATRE — $200,000 · OtherVINEYARD THEATREARROWMONT SCHOOL OF ARTS & CRAFTS — $175,000 · OtherSTEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC — $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $125,000 · Other+33 more — $1,474,469 · Other+33 morePenland School Of Craft — $580,000 · Arts & CulturePenland School Of CraftTHE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC — $389,968 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN I…ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION — $250,000 · Arts & CultureARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NE…POCOSIN ARTS INC — $225,000 · Arts & CulturePOCOSIN ARTS INCNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INCGOGGLE WORKS — $124,300 · Arts & CultureHAMILTON WOOD TYPE & PRINTING MUSEUM INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureArgenta Community Theatre — $100,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL PRINTING MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+19 more — $755,070 · Arts & Culture+19 moreACCESS GROUP INC — $125,000 · EducationCENTER FOR METAL ARTS INC — $115,000 · EducationARTHUR MORGAN SCHOOL INC — $100,000 · EducationHENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $62,500 · EducationNorth Bennet Street School — $50,000 · EducationMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $25,023 · EducationMillsaps College — $25,000 · EducationARCHIE BRAY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE — $150,000 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER — $119,000 · Human ServicesIMMERSE ARKANSAS — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHEA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICAN GOLDSMITHS — $25,000 · Human ServicesSTARWORKS — $200,000 · EnvironmentConserving Carolina — $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE SALUDA POP-UP PANTRY — $60,000 · Food & NutritionHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC — $50,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,386,569Arts & Culture$2,824,338Education$532,523Human Services$369,000Environment$300,000Food & Nutrition$60,000Housing & Shelter$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $995,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPenland School Of Craft — $580,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC — $389,968 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetPOCOSIN ARTS INC — $225,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetSTARWORKS — $200,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC — $200,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetARROWMONT SCHOOL OF ARTS & CRAFTS — $175,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE — $150,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetACCESS GROUP INC — $125,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSTEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC — $125,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetGOGGLE WORKS — $124,300 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER — $119,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetCENTER FOR METAL ARTS INC — $115,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC — $105,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM OF PRINTING INC — $100,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetHAMILTON WOOD TYPE & PRINTING MUSEUM INC — $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetARTHUR MORGAN SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetArgenta Community Theatre — $100,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetConserving Carolina — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOPERA IN THE ROCK INC — $100,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PRINTING MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE — $75,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMuseum of Craft and Design — $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $62,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SALUDA POP-UP PANTRY — $60,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCRAFTING THE FUTURE — $50,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIMMERSE ARKANSAS — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE FURNITURE SOCIETY — $50,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT — $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CLAY STUDIO — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $25,023 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMillsaps College — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetARCHIE BRAY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF ELIOT SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSPRUCE PINE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBALLET ARKANSAS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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 F…Arkansas Community Fo…Roy and Christine Stu…Arvest FoundationThe Maxwellhanrahan F…John R & Judy W Fletc…Lpr FoundationHeart of Arkansas Uni…The Brown Foundation …Trinity FoundationStella Smith Charitab…Marlin Miller Jr Fami…
Windgate Charitable Foundation IncAR73.5× affinity33 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 · John R & Judy W Fletcher Family Foundation · Lpr Foundation · Heart of Arkansas United Way · The Brown Foundation Inc · Trinity Foundation · Stella Smith Charitable Trust · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation

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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Eliot School — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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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 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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