· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $698k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $795k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| NATIONAL HEALTH LAW | $130,400 |
| GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND | $120,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR COURT EXCELLENCE | $120,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $109,682 |
| Individual grant recipient | $61,197 |
| NATIONAL EDUCATION EQUITY LAB | $53,790 |
| CRITICAL EXPOSURE | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY LODGINGS | $47,764 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $45,000 |
| SWARTHMORE COLLEGE | $40,500 |
| NEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN SHELTER | $30,705 |
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE ARCHIVES | $30,400 |
| YELLOWHAMMER FUND | $30,300 |
| AFS-USA | $28,045 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $216k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 17 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k 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
- CFCOUNCIL FOR COURT EXCELLENCE4× · 2021–2024 · $255k · revenue +75%
- NENational Education Opportunity Network Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $154k · revenue +170%
- CLCommunity Lodgings Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $108k · revenue +2%
Funded once
POSSIBILITY LABSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue +116%- MAMILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT DBA FUTURE CAUCUSone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +10%
- GCGLOBAL COMMUNITIESone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -9%
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.
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
Ultraviolet education fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Area Women's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International. 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 29 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 73 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 COUNCIL FOR COURT EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds National Education Opportunity Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Critical Exposure Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND ↗
- Who funds Community Lodgings Inc ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CASA CHIRILAGUA ↗
- Who funds Together We Bake ↗
- Who funds POSSIBILITY LABS ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL VISTAS INC ↗
- Who funds TZEDEK DC INC ↗
- Who funds KIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER International ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds AFS-USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Sisters Circle ↗
- Who funds Yellowhammer Fund ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROSA VERA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DC JUSTICE LAB ↗
- Who funds THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA ↗
- Who funds iFly Youth Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER 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: 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
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 Open Horizon 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.
- Global Communities — 44% of income from government
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.
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