· Private foundation
Michael E Horn Family Foundation Inc Ima
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $635,635 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $678,635 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $314k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Owensboro Catholic High School | $100,000 |
| Pleasant Valley Community Church | $72,500 |
| Grace Christian Academy | $52,000 |
| Whitesville Lions Club | $50,000 |
| Trinity High School | $40,000 |
| St Mary of the Woods Catholic School | $35,000 |
| Bluegrass Music Museum | $30,000 |
| Family Y of Owensboro | $25,000 |
| Carenet | $25,000 |
| Cliff Hagan Boys & Girls Club | $25,000 |
| St. Benedict Joseph Homeless Shelter | $25,000 |
| St. Bernard Prep School | $20,000 |
| Borrowed Hearts | $20,000 |
| Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts | $20,000 |
| Maximilian Montessori Academy | $15,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OMOWENSBORO MUSEUM OF FINE ART INC2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +21%
INTERNATIONAL BLUEGRASS MUSIC MUSEUM2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +14%- PCPREGNANCY CENTER OF OWENSBORO INC2× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- DPDANIEL PITINO SHELTER INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -40%
KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +12%- FFFAITHFUL FRIENDS KY INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -1% · 36% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Museum is an institution that collects, conserves and exhibits information and artifacts with an emphasis on the Western Kentucky area.
To reach and help women who struggle with alcohol and chemical dependency; to offer assistance and resources to women while going through the rehabilitation process; to provide a safe environment and shelter to homeless women; to provide…
Preservation kentucky's mission is to build support for and protect kentucky's historic structures and resources.
Owensboro museum of fine art foundation, inc. is organized exclusively for the purpose of perpetuating growth and development of the owensboro museum of fine art, inc., the preservation and enhancement of the museum's permanent collections…
Provide cultural events for the community.
To provide a safe environment for children.
To foster, promote and advance the interests and the true spirit of the game of golf throughout the commonwealth of kentucky, and in conjunction therewith to lend its cooperation and assistance to the united states golf association, and to…
The mission of the Oldham County History Center is to collect, record and share the rich history of Oldham County and its communities, and to create a sense of place and connect its residents and visitors
The organization engages in evangelistic and discipleship ministries in rural churches in eastern kentucky.
None
To conduct, promote and preserve the history of the winchester, ky area and to educate the public about the heritage of our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Owensboro Area Shelter Information and Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Benedictine College. 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.
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 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 18% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds OWENSBORO MUSEUM OF FINE ART INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BLUEGRASS MUSIC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Whitesville Lions Club ↗
- Who funds GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF OWENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds CLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER OF OWENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds Family Y of Owensboro-Daviess Co ↗
- Who funds MAXIMILIAN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL PITINO SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OWENSBORO AREA SHELTER INFORMATION AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAITHFUL FRIENDS KY INC ↗
- Who funds American Legion Baseball Post 9 ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO LIFE OF OWENSBORO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OWENSBORO DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH START FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds OWENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN KENTUCKY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH POLICY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MENTOR KIDS KENTUCKY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Owensboro Health Inc · Marilyn & William Young Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Sara Hemingway Ex Di · Baird Foundation Inc · Lester E Yeager Charitable Trust B · United Way of the Ohio Valley Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Impact 100 - Owensboro Inc · B J Killian Foundation · Public Life Foundation of Owensboro · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc
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.