Virginia · Private foundation
Open Horizon
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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $24,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 32
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Open Horizon funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 44 | $1.4M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $817k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $708k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $409k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Council for Court Excellence | $255,000 | 4 | 7% |
| National Education Opportunity Network Inc | $153,790 | 4 | 2% |
| Critical Exposure Inc | $125,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Georgia Resilience and Opportunity Fund Dba the Gro Fund | $120,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Community Lodgings Inc | $108,482 | 4 | 2% |
| Swarthmore College | $95,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Casa Chirilagua | $81,778 | 4 | 4% |
| Together We Bake | $75,546 | 4 | 3% |
| Possibility Labs | $70,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives Inc | $60,400 | 4 | 7% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Open Horizon supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Bruhn-Morris Family Foundation Inc · Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc · England Family Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Kiwanis Foundation of Alexandria VA Inc · Ivakota Assoc Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to Open Horizon?
Find your warmest path to Open Horizon 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.
About Open Horizon
- How much does Open Horizon give?
- Open Horizon reported 48 grants totaling $1,511,017 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 32 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Open Horizon fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (11%), Education (9%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Open Horizon's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Council for Court Excellence ($255k), National Education Opportunity Network Inc ($154k), Critical Exposure Inc ($125k).
- Does Open Horizon fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Open Horizon accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Open Horizon?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation.
- Where is Open Horizon based?
- Open Horizon is based in VA.
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