· Public charity
The Horizon Foundation of Howard County Inc
The horizon foundation works side-by-side with community to build power, advocate for policy change, and dismantle structural racism to achieve better health for everyone in howard county and greater maryland.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of THE HORIZON FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $1,216,622 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,252,617 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,995 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 $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $277k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $928k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA | $206,000 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK OF MARYLAND | $206,000 |
| HOWARD COUNTY SPONSORING COMMITTEEPEOPLE ACTING TOGETHER IN HOWARD (PATH) | $206,000 |
| BRIDGES TO HOUSING STABILITY | $160,000 |
| MARYLAND CONSUMER RIGHTS COALITION DBA ECONOMIC ACTION MARYLAND | $150,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND INC | $40,000 |
| ELEPHANT CIRCLE (FS FOR DOULA ALLIANCE) | $40,000 |
| BLACK EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS NETWORK | $30,000 |
| FUSION PARTNERSHIP - FISCAL SPONSOR FOR BLOOM COLLECTIVE | $20,000 |
| JUSTLIVING ADVOCACY INC | $20,000 |
| STATES NEWSROOM | $20,000 |
| FLIGHT-PATH | $16,622 |
| LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| BUILDING FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN INC | $10,000 |
| COLUMBIA HOUSING CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 20% 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.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 29 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k 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
- MAMEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL FACULTY OF MARYLAND7× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +73%
- HCHOWARD COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL INC3× · 2017–2020 · $671k · revenue +35%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF HOWARD COUNTY MARYLAND INC6× · 2018–2024 · $416k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- SPSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $450k · revenue +55%
- FAFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF CENTRAone grant, 2021 · $225k · revenue +7%
- WSWAY STATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $146k · revenue +50%
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.
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.
Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.
Johns hopkins community physicians, inc (jhcp), a valued member of johns hopkins medicine, is a network of medical practices strategically positioned throughout communities in maryland and dc. we strive to meet the needs of each community…
The mission of The Coordinating Center is to partner with people of all ages and abilities and those who support them in the community to achieve their aspirations for independence, health, and a meaningful community life.
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
To develop and implement strategies to improve the safety of patient care in maryland. mpsc unites stakeholders to champion patient safety, eliminate preventable harm, and accelerate improvements in safety quality across healthcare.
The organization served approximately 5,000 people - more than 100 people take part in services offered at penn-north each day. clinical services are provided to over 800 clients per year.
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
To promote affordable healthcare.
To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations and the most unlike its peers is Maryland Matters Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 100 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 MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL FACULTY OF MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY SPONSORING COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF HOWARD COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA ORCHESTRA OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY SERVICES OF HOWARD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Howard County Chinese School Inc ↗
- Who funds Equity4HC Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA HOUSING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO HOUSING STABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF CENTRA ↗
- Who funds BUILDING FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ELEPHANT CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds BEHAVORIAL HEALTH SYSTEMS BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAY STATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE NETWORK OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANIM INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN-AMERICAN SENIOR ASSOCIATION HOWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics ↗
- Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds CHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PEIYING CHINESE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Maryland Matters 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 Howard County Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Inc · Wr Grace Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Greater Washington 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 Horizon Foundation of Howard County Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Autism Society of Maryland Inc — 67% of income from government
- Community Action Council of Howard County Maryland Inc — 44% of income from government
- My Covenant Place — 33% of income from government
- Accessible Resources for Independence Inc — 33% of income from government
- Hopeworks of Howard County Inc — 29% of income from government
- Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations — 27% of income from government
- Medstar Health Inc — 23% of income from government
- Columbia Festival Inc — 22% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- On Our Own of Maryland Inc — 10% of income from government
- Family and Children's Services of Centra — 10% of income from government
- Howard County Arts Council — 9% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Howard County Conservancy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Chase Brexton Health Services Inc — 4% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Behavorial Health Systems Baltimore — 1% of income from government
- Way Station Inc — 1% of income from government
- Humanim Inc — 1% of income from government
- Maryland Hospital Association — 0% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement — 0% of income from government
- Howard County General Hospital Inc — 0% 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.