· Private foundation
Thomas & Martina Horn Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k13 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $278k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
- $250k+7 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL | $500,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE MISSION | $400,000 |
| BELLINGHAM FOOD BANK | $400,000 |
| WHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO | $350,000 |
| WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUDN | $350,000 |
| BELLINGHAN TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $350,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $250,000 |
| WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| MERIDIAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| BLAINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| NOOKSACK VALLEY SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| BELLINGHAM DOLLARS FOR SCHOLLARS | $21,000 |
| WHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING | $20,000 |
| BELLINGHAM TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $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 (FY18–18, $552k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
Provide and promote constructive and collaborative approaches to conflict resolution through mediation, training, facilitation, supervised visits and community education.
Housing Counseling Services
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
We provide a voice for an effective and accessible behavioral health system of care for Oregonians.
The mission of the Northwest Fair Housing Alliance is to eliminate housing discrimination and to ensure equal housing opportunity for the people of Washington State through education, counseling and advocacy.
Through a fiscally responsible and multi-faceted approach, north west housing partnership nwhp promotes public and private partnerships that create and preserve cost-effective quality diverse housing for low to moderate-income residents…
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.
Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Help homeless Utahns improve their health and quality of life by providing high-quality health care and support services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whatcom Council On Aging and the most unlike its peers is Love in the Name of Christ of Mason County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 32 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 OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLAINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds UNITY CARE NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LYDIA PLACE ↗
- Who funds Love in the Name of Christ of Mason County ↗
- Who funds MAX HIGBEE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEAN HUMPHREY HOUSE ↗
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: Chuckanut Health Foundation · Mount Baker Foundation · Whatcom Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · First Fed Foundation · United Way of Whatcom County · The Dudley Foundation · Jerry H Walton Foundation · Mary H Storer Foundation · PeaceHealth · North Sound Accountable Community of Health
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 Thomas & Martina 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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