· Private foundation
The Horne Family 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 $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $777k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE STORY OF STUFF | $25,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY | $25,000 |
| ISLAND PRESS | $25,000 |
| NEWHOUSE WILDLIFE CENTER | $24,781 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS | $21,500 |
| KOPE LION | $20,200 |
| ELEVATED THOUGHT FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR CANINE BEHAVIOR STUDIES | $20,000 |
| ELEPHANT SANCTUARY | $20,000 |
| SEACOAST YOUTH SERVICES | $20,000 |
| GALLATIN RIVER TASK FORCE | $20,000 |
| HAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES | $20,000 |
| EARTH LAW CENTER | $20,000 |
| GAINING GROUND | $20,000 |
| SIERRA FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
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, $368k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% 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 +64% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
95 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 30 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $537k 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
- RCREDFORD CENTER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +176%
- COCOUNCIL OF CONTRIBUTORS INC4× · 2019–2023 · $103k · revenue +229%
- GGGAINING GROUND INC4× · 2020–2024 · $57k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- SCSONOMA COUNTY RESILIENCE FUNDone grant, 2017 · $25k
- GGLOBIOone grant, 2023 · $25k
- FZFRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
To protect endangered species.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Salmon Center and the most unlike its peers is BACK2EARTH 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 28 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
248 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. 248 of the 333 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 REDFORD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF CONTRIBUTORS INC ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CONSERVATION FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds ENDANGERED SPECIES COALITION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYHEW ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Eco Defense Group ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC ↗
- Who funds EARTH LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BLUE OCEAN SOCIETY FOR MARINE CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AINE ↗
- Who funds Sierra Foothill Conservancy ↗
- Who funds IN OUR HANDS ACTION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #227 ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds 350 NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ENDANGERED RHINO CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CARE SANCTUARY ↗
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 Saab Family Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Rogers Family Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Trust Uw Oleonda Jameson
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 Horne Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Saheli Inc — 61% of income from government
- Community Action Inc — 52% of income from government
- Lowell Association for the Blind Inc — 49% of income from government
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
- Act Lawrence Inc — 44% of income from government
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Transition House Inc — 39% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- Walama Restoration Project — 14% of income from government
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- Community Day Care Center of Lawrence Inc — 11% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beyond Soccer Inc — 7% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc — 4% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Whale and Dolphin Conservationinc — 3% of income from government
- Tufts Medicine Care at Home Inc — 3% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue 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.