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The Horne Family Foundation at a glance

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The Horne Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$789k
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.7MAnimals$1.7MHuman Services$530kHealth$374kHousing & Shelter$270kYouth Development$255kEducation$198kFood & Nutrition$195kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $777k
$15,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY$25,000
THE STORY OF STUFF$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
GRAY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION$20,000
ELEPHANT SANCTUARY$20,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$20,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUHEGAN VALLEY$20,000
CENTER FOR CANINE BEHAVIOR STUDIES$20,000
LAWRENCE COMMUNITY WORKS$20,000
GAINING GROUND$20,000
HAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES$20,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS OF GREATER DERRY: $10k → 5%HUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $10k → 9%THE CITY SCHOOL: $20k → 16%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 8%THE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $5k → 9%ST GIANNA'S PLACE INC: $5k → 5%A HUNDRED NIGHTS: $10k → 9%NH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 7%SPARK COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 10%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $20k → 17%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL EXETER: $5k → 5%HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $15k → 8%BUDGET BUDDIES: $10k → 16%THE MOORE CENTER: $10k → 7%HAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $20k → 5%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK INC: $15k → 8%ON BELAY: $10k → 5%ON BELAY: $8k → 5%ON BELAY INC: $5k → 5%HOUSING FAMILIES INC: $15k → 8%ON BELAY INC: $5k → 5%STEPPING STONES: $15k → 7%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $10k → 7%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 10%BUDGET BUDDIES: $10k → 8%BUDGET BUDDIES: $10k → 8%MERRIMACK VALLEY HOSPICE: $15k → 10%CATIE'S CLOSET INC: $10k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET INC: $5k → 8%PETTENGILL HOUSE: $20k → 10%SAHELI INC: $20k → 8%COMMUNITY GIVING TREE: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY GIVING TREE: $5k → 10%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 95 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

95
207

Total granted

$2.8M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+41%

Still filing today

81%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $537k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationHousing & 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

  • RC
    REDFORD CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +176%
  • CO
    COUNCIL OF CONTRIBUTORS INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $103k · revenue +229%
  • GG
    GAINING GROUND INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $57k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • G
    GLOBIO
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • SC
    SONOMA COUNTY RESILIENCE FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Wildcoast

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.…

Environment
2
Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment
3
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
4
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
5
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
6
Wildlife Protection Solutions

To protect endangered species.

Animals
7
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
8
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
9
Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment
10
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
11
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

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.

Environment
12
Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Salmon Center; 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.
04the grantee network

248 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
84
Early backer (in before they grew)
238/248
Grantees still filing
189/248
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+95 more: $2,079,283 · Other+95 moreCOUNCIL OF CONTRIBUTORS INC: $103,000 · AnimalsCOUNCIL OF CONTRIBUTORS INCBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $55,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $55,000 · AnimalsGLOBAL CONSERVATION FORCE INC: $50,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · AnimalsENDANGERED SPECIES COALITION: $45,000 · AnimalsLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $40,000 · AnimalsEco Defense Group: $40,000 · AnimalsBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $40,000 · Animals+31 more: $655,200 · Animals+31 moreREDFORD CENTER INC: $140,000 · EnvironmentREDFORD CENTER INCECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $51,000 · EnvironmentECOLOGY PROJECT INTE…350 NEW HAMPSHIRE: $30,000 · EnvironmentSierra Foothill Conservancy: $30,000 · EnvironmentMERRIMACK RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentCHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 · Environment+28 more: $534,600 · Environment+28 moreWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesON BELAY INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesURBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Human ServicesThe Pettengill House Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesThe City School Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesHUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAHELI INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT: $17,500 · Human ServicesCommunity Teamwork Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FAMILIES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCatie's Closet Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesTUFTS MEDICINE CARE AT HOME INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONES: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY GIVING TREE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF AINE: $30,000 · HealthVETERINARIANS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · HealthCONNORS CLIMB FOUNDATION: $17,500 · HealthHOSPICE HELP FOUNDATION: $17,500 · HealthLOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $15,000 · HealthFarmsteads of New England Inc: $15,000 · HealthAddiction Recovery Coalition of New Hampshire: $15,000 · HealthWIKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationELEVATED THOUGHT INC: $20,000 · EducationBLUESKIES WELLNESS INC: $15,000 · EducationACERA SCHOOL INC: $12,500 · EducationTWIN RIVERS FOOD PANTRY: $27,500 · Food & NutritionMILL CITY GROWS INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD LINK INC: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,079,283Animals$1,128,200Environment$845,600Human Services$315,000Health$130,000Education$67,500Food & Nutrition$62,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREDFORD CENTER INC: $140,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCOUNCIL OF CONTRIBUTORS INC: $103,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetGAINING GROUND INC: $57,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $51,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL CONSERVATION FORCE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetENDANGERED SPECIES COALITION: $45,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMAYHEW: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEco Defense Group: $40,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEARTH LAW CENTER: $35,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTS IN REACH - ENCOURAGING GROWTH THROUGH THE ARTS: $30,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetENDANGERED RHINO CONSERVATION: $30,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetBLUE OCEAN SOCIETY FOR MARINE CONSERVATION: $30,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budget350 NEW HAMPSHIRE: $30,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetSPIRIT OF ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #227: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL CARE SANCTUARY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSierra Foothill Conservancy: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF AINE: $30,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetIN OUR HANDS ACTION FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetON BELAY INC: $27,500 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetTWIN RIVERS FOOD PANTRY: $27,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHE WISH PROJECT: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTOXICS ACTION CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONSERVATION NEBRASKA: $25,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetClean River Project Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPROJECT KOMPASS INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetThe Association of State Wetland Managers Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKITTERY LAND TRUST INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.9% 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.

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.

The Saab Family Found…New Hampshire Charita…Eastern Bank Foundati…Agnes M Lindsay TrustCummings Foundation G…Cogswell Benevolent T…Madelaine G Vonweber …Essex County Communit…PatagoniaorgRogers Family Foundat…We Share A Common Thr…Trust Uw Oleonda Jame…
The Saab Family FoundationMA59.6× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Horne Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Horne Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 280%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
28get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.

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 333 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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