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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 FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$374kEducation$309kHuman Services$250kYouth Development$221kHealth$193kCivil Rights$192kPhilanthropy$186kHousing & Shelter$174kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $698k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $795k
$24,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$150,000
NATIONAL HEALTH LAW$130,400
COUNCIL FOR COURT EXCELLENCE$120,000
GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $26k → 9%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $20k → 9%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $20k → 9%POSSIBILITY LABS: $70k → 10%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $10k → 9%SAFE SISTERS CIRCLE: $20k → 14%SAFE SISTERS CIRCLE: $10k → 14%SAFE SISTERS CIRCLE: $10k → 14%SAFE SISTERS CIRCLE: $5k → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%DC AFFORDABLE LAW FIRM: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 33 repeat orgs$505k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
19

Total granted

$2.8M
$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+26%

Still filing today

64%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CF
    COUNCIL FOR COURT EXCELLENCE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $255k · revenue +75%
  • NE
    National Education Opportunity Network Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $154k · revenue +170%
  • CL
    Community Lodgings Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $108k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • POSSIBILITY LABSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue +116%
  • MA
    MILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT DBA FUTURE CAUCUS
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +10%
  • GF
    Groundswell Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -25%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

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.

International
2
Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
3
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

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…

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4
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
5
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
6
International Women's Forum Inc

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…

Education
7
Womens Funding Network

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.

Education
8
Fund for Justice

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…

Crime & Legal
9
Girls for Gender Equity Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
10
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
11
The Alliance for Collective Action

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…

Environment
12
UltraViolet Education Fund

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…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Area Women's Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
32/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $425,496 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $295,149 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOUNCIL FOR COURT EXCELLENCE: $255,000 · OtherCOUNCIL FOR COURT EXCELLENCENATIONAL HEALTH LAW: $165,400 · OtherNATIONAL HEALTH LAWIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $94,290 · OtherCASA CHIRILAGUA: $81,778 · Other+41 more: $737,121 · Other+41 moreGEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND: $120,000 · Human ServicesGEORGIA RES…Together We Bake: $75,546 · Human ServicesTogether We…POSSIBILITY LABS: $70,000 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY…Safe Sisters Circle: $45,400 · Human ServicesSafe Sister…WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human Services+2 more: $20,000 · Human Services+2 moreNational Education Opportunity Network Inc: $153,790 · EducationNational E…SWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $95,500 · EducationSWARTHMORE…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $50,000 · EducationAMERICAN I…+2 more: $10,070 · EducationCritical Exposure Inc: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER International: $55,352 · Youth DevelopmentiFly Youth Incorporated: $25,425 · Youth DevelopmentCommunity Lodgings Inc: $108,482 · Housing & ShelterNEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC: $45,971 · Housing & ShelterCULTURAL VISTAS INC: $60,000 · InternationalAFS-USA INC: $45,995 · InternationalROSA VERA FUND INC: $35,000 · InternationalGLOBAL COMMUNITIES: $10,000 · InternationalHOPEWELL FUND: $70,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyGroundswell Fund: $10,000 · PhilanthropyACTBLUE CHARITIES INC: $5,050 · Philanthropy
Other$2,204,234Human Services$345,946Education$309,360Youth Development$205,777Housing & Shelter$154,453International$150,995Philanthropy$125,050

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOUNCIL FOR COURT EXCELLENCE: $255,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetNational Education Opportunity Network Inc: $153,790 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCritical Exposure Inc: $125,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetGEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND: $120,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCommunity Lodgings Inc: $108,482 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $95,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASA CHIRILAGUA: $81,778 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTogether We Bake: $75,546 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS: $70,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE ARCHIVES INC: $60,400 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetCULTURAL VISTAS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTZEDEK DC INC: $58,244 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER International: $55,352 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAFS-USA INC: $45,995 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC: $45,971 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSafe Sisters Circle: $45,400 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetYellowhammer Fund: $40,300 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSA VERA FUND INC: $35,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetDC JUSTICE LAB: $30,700 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $30,490 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetACT FOR ALEXANDRIA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetiFly Youth Incorporated: $25,425 over 1y, 18% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTeens of Color Abroad Inc: $17,115 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT DBA FUTURE CAUCUS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERSONG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDC Affordable Law Firm: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBlack Mamas Matter Alliance Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBAL COMMUNITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC: $5,210 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $5,163 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTBLUE CHARITIES INC: $5,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNative Americans in Philanthropy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOneJustice: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES INC: $3,556 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC: $70 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds POSSIBILITY LABS ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Bruhn-Morris Family F…Diane & Norman Bernst…England Family Founda…Philip L Graham Fund …Mightycause Charitabl…The Sidley Austin Fou…The Community Foundat…Kiwanis Foundation of…Ivakota Assoc Inc
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC24.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Open Horizon funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Open Horizon. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 44%
  • Global Communities: 44% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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