· Private foundation
The Hb and Lucille Horn Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $186k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SANTA FE OPERA | $40,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY | $30,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA | $27,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | $22,000 |
| CHINATOWN YMCA | $20,288 |
| MANDY'S SPECIAL FARM | $20,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF CAMBODIA CHILD FIRST | $16,480 |
| OPERA SOUTHWEST | $10,000 |
| LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE SAN FRANCISCO | $5,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO HOST COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| PRINCE ALBERT II OF MONACO FOUNDATION USA | $1,000 |
| NOB HILL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH CLUB WORLD AFFAIRS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- MSMANDY'S SPECIAL FARM8× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +91%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +37%
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE FRENCH LEGION OF HONOR INCone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +0%
- AArtCareone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.
Take world-class symphonic music off the pedestal and into the heart of our community. San Francisco Philharmonic is an orchestral group dedicated to cultural enrichment, music education and creating a performance platform for women and…
Menlowe ballet performs works that impact audiences through clean, fresh, and innovative choreography ranging from cultural to contemporary works. it offers a professional performing opportunity to elite students from the award winning,…
The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony and the most unlike its peers is American Society of the French Legion of Honor Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 54 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 MANDY'S SPECIAL FARM ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO HOST COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Opera Southwest ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORKING CLASSROOM INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE FRENCH LEGION OF HONOR INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Dance Film SF Inc ↗
- Who funds FRENCH AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds University of the Pacific ↗
- Who funds Opera Parallle ↗
- Who funds Old First Concerts ↗
- Who funds THE CHINATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Merola Opera Program ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO-PARIS SISTER CITY COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds DANCERS GROUP ↗
- Who funds NOB HILL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Bob a Ross Foundation Inc · Horizons Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Koret Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 The Hb and Lucille Horn Foundation 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.
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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