New York · Nonprofit
HORTUS FOUNDATION INC
HORTUS FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,714,100 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,043,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Hortus Foundation Inc does
Mission
The Foundation seeks to promote the orthodox, Magisterial Catholic faith and tradition through formation activities, tools, and materials that edify; to evangelize through film, art, architecture, and archaeology; to deepen appreciation of Catholic history through religious pilgrimages to, and restoration and preservation of, churches, shrines, and other religious sites worldwide that have spiritual, historical, architectural, and/or artistic significance; to engage in projects that manifest principles of solidarity, charity to the poor, and Catholic Social Teaching; to support related activities of Catholic dioceses, religious orders, ministries, apostolates, and other religious entities with similar visions and goals; and to promote devotion to Saint Angelo DAcri.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Hortus Foundation is a registered 501(c)3 US nonprofit that champions and stewards life-transforming Catholic initiatives through Faith, Truth, and Beauty according to the incomparably rich tradition of the Catholic Church. Hortus is Latin meaning garden and is often specifically associated with a garden that bears fruit. It is the root of English words today like horticulture, cohort, and court. Our logo is a tree in a garden deeply rooted to bear much fruit and to herald the Catholic Faith in the world today. We herald the Catholic Faith by projects and initiatives that will:a) Promote the Orthodox Magisterial tradition through formation activities, tools, and materials that edify.b) Invest in Catholic cultural projects that range from film, art, architecture, archeology, and history.c) Engage in projects of Catholic principles of Solidarity, Charity to the poor, and the Social Teachings of the Catholic Church.d)Select projects following the above criteria that command a wide-reaching impact and will bear much fruit in the world.e) Partner with other great organizations that share our organizational values and mission.
$887,727 spent$1,778,915 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $887,727.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $771k to $1.5M (+92%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of HORTUS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Salvatore Femia
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HORTUS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HORTUS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HORTUS FOUNDATION INC.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
97% of HORTUS FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $75k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HORTUS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HORTUS FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HORTUS FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HORTUS FOUNDATION INC?
- HORTUS FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,714,100 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,043,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HORTUS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,714,100 in grants to HORTUS FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HORTUS FOUNDATION INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,043,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HORTUS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing