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The Van Horn 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCDANIEL COLLEGE | $11,560 |
| ST VINCENT ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| POINT PLEASANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,400 |
| FIRST UNION AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| DEEP WELL PROJECT | $2,000 |
| WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| VICTIMS INTERVENTION PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| HONESDALE COMMUNITIES THAT CARE INC | $1,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT | $1,000 |
| THE WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATI | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF EAST BROADTOP RR | $1,000 |
| HONESDALE EMERGENCY PANTRY | $1,000 |
| ST GREGORY'S PANTRY | $1,000 |
| COMMON GROUND ON THE HILL | $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 (FY18–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 71% of The Van Horn Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 29% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 6% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CGCOMMON GROUND ON THE HILL LTD8× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +8%
- MCMCDANIEL COLLEGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +64%
- WCWAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- FUFIRST UNION AFRIAN BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $3k
- FOFRIENDS OF EAST BROADTOP RAILROADone grant, 2017 · $2k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAYNE COUNTY PA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +35%
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 Center brings together diverse interests from the agricultural, forestry, and environmental communities for the purpose of retaining Maryland's working landscapes and the industries they support while protecting and improving the…
Each of the enumerated activities is substantially related and significantly contributes to the social interaction and camaraderie of the entire membership of the organization.
The Hancock County Planning Commission advocates for and provides assistance to county and local governments by: - Protecting our heritage and resources,- Planning for the future- Promoting a sound economy for the people of Hancock County
The humane society is working to make a difference in the lives of animals and the people who love and care for them, and is dedicated to relieving the pain and suffering of animals through education and direct intervention.
The organization was formed to manage a 441 acre nature preserve. management includes controlling invasive species of plants, having archaeological surveys conducted and restoring historical sites.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
The Door County Housing Partnership is creating a stable supply of permanently affordable housing for year-round residents to maintain the character, vibrancy, and diversity of the Door County community. Door County has an affordable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Monmouth University 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 37 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 51 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 COMMON GROUND ON THE HILL LTD ↗
- Who funds MCDANIEL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds VICTIMS INTERVENTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Daufuskie Community Farm ↗
- Who funds ST GREGORY'S PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds DORFLINGER SUYDAM WILDLIFE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Wayne County Family Center ↗
- Who funds Honesdale Communities That Care Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAYNE COUNTY PA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLAIRE VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Billys New Hope Barn Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT 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 Honesdale National Bank Foundation · The Grimm Foundation · The John & Helen Villaume Foundation · Hickory Hill Foundation · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · William E Chatlos Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good
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 Van 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Common Ground On the Hill Ltd — 18% of income from government
- Allaire Village Inc — 6% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College 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.
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