Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Horner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $300k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,860
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $72,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations The Horner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $292k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $321k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $294k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $387k | 70% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $346k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $556k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $507k | 76% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $628k | 34% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project | $185,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Oakland Lacrosse Club | $122,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Urban Tilth | $80,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Philadelphia Robotics Coalition Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 8% |
| The Franklin Institute | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bay Area Girls Rock Camp | $75,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Youth Mentoring Partnership | $70,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Gaia Passages | $70,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Urban Adamah | $69,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Philadelphia Young Playwrights | $65,000 | 3 | 6% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Horner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Lenfest Foundation Inc · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Allen Hilles Fund · Independence Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Children Can Shape the Future Inc · The Cigna Group Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Horner Foundation
- How much does The Horner Foundation give?
- The Horner Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $299,927 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Horner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (27%), Youth Development (19%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are The Horner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project ($185k), Oakland Lacrosse Club ($123k), Urban Tilth ($81k).
- Does The Horner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Horner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Horner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main.
- Where is The Horner Foundation based?
- The Horner Foundation is based in PA.
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