The Horizon Foundation of Howard County
Columbia, MD · EIN 52-2119011. Reported 103 grants totalling $5,500,657 to 65 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Horizon Foundation of Howard County, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for health care (NTEE E12).
- How spread out its giving is. 65 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 23% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $450,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland | Baltimore, MD | $705,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc | Baltimore, MD | $450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Columbia Chamber Orchestra of Howard County | Ellicott City, MD | $325,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Action Council of Howard County MD Inc | Columbia, MD | $285,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Columbia Housing Center Inc | Simpsonville, MD | $245,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bridges to Housing Stability Inc | Columbia, MD | $235,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| PTA Delaware Congress | Ellicott City, MD | $230,000 | 4 | 2 | 2023 |
| Family & Childrens Services of Central Maryland Inc | Baltimore, MD | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The United Way of Central Maryland Inc | Baltimore, MD | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Building Families for Children | Columbia, MD | $221,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Elephant Circle | Palisade, CO | $206,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Community Foundation of Howard County Inc | Columbia, MD | $206,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| CASA Inc | Hyattsville, MD | $186,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lindaben Foundation Inc | Columbia, MD | $170,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Howard County Sponsoring Committee | Columbia, MD | $156,700 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Howard County Public School System | Ellicott City, MD | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mental Health Association of Maryland Inc | Lutherville, MD | $100,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc | Baltimore, MD | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hospice and Palliative Care Network of Maryland Inc | Sparks, MD | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Peiying Chinese School Inc | Ellicott City, MD | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Behavioral Health System Baltimore Inc | Baltimore, MD | $67,805 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Community Foundation of Howard County | Columbia, MD | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Howard County Chinese School Inc | Columbia, MD | $49,440 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Howard County Chinese School | Ellicott City, MD | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| States Newsroom | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community Action Council of Howard County | Baltimore, MD | $40,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hc Drugfree Inc | Columbia, MD | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| PTA Delaware Congress | Ellicott City, MD | $40,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Development Network of Maryland Inc | Columbia, MD | $36,622 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Family Resiliency Center Inc | Columbia, MD | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Community Ecology Institute | Columbia, MD | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Life Change African Methodist Episcopal Church | Columbia, MD | $25,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Columbia Festival Inc | Columbia, MD | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Everyday Canvassing | Silver Spring, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Humanim Inc | Columbia, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Justliving Advocacy Inc | Columbia, MD | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Maryland Matters Inc | Takoma Park, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stonier Scholarship Inc | Towson, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center Inc | Columbia, MD | $17,465 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Association of Community Services of Howard County | Columbia, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Celebration Church at Columbia | Columbia, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Korean-American Senior Association Howard County Inc | Columbia, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Locust United Methodist Church | Columbia, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| My Covenant Place Inc | Upper Marlboro, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Temple Isaiah | Fulton, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| African American Community Roundtable of Howard County | Columbia, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Autism Society of Maryland Inc | Columbia, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Executive Directors Network | Randallstown, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Every Kid Can Cook | Columbia, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hopeworks of Howard County Inc | Columbia, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Howard County Arts Council | Ellicott City, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Links Inc | Columbia, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Luminus Network Inc | Columbia, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition Inc | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maryland Inclusive Housing Corporation | Silver Spring, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sobar | Ellicott City, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Healthy Church | Columbia, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Work Play Obsession All in Foundation (fiscal Sponsor) | Columbia, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Upcycled Inc | Columbia, MD | $9,625 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Neighbor Ride Inc | Columbia, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Arc of Howard County Inc | Ellicott City, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| TOUCH4LIFE Inc | Clarksville, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Luminus Network Inc | Columbia, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
20 of 65 (31%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Sheppard Pratt
PSYCHIATRIC URGENT CARE: MEETING POST-PANDEMIC NEED OF MARYLANDERS IN CRISIS - Howard County Public School System
HCPSS SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES EXPANSION - Bridges to Housing Stability
RACIAL EQUITY COLLABORATIVE/POLICY CAMPAIGN - Howard County Sponsoring Committeepeople Acting Together in Howard (path)
CO-CREATE POLICY AND PROGRAMMATIC SOLUTIONS FOCUSED ON HOUSING JUSTICE - Medchi the Maryland State Medical Society
DIABETES PREVENTION THROUGH SUGARY DRINK POLICIES [HKF22SD] - CASA
LIBERTY ACT REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 45 of 65 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 35 | $2,399,065 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 33 | $1,312,470 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 12 | $572,500 | $27,500 |
| 2024 | 23 | $1,216,622 | $16,622 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
95% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maryland.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Horizon Foundation of Howard County's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 23 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 10221 Wincopin Circle 200, Columbia, MD, 21044.
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