Recent Grants

We are so excited to announce our first set of grantees under our new strategic plan. This past year, we undertook an extensive review of our grantmaking and evolved our processes to practice trust-centered philanthropy – a holistic approach to grantmaking that is rooted in shared values and true partnership with grantees, where grantees not only provide input but co-create programs and policy solutions that achieve our joint vision of social change. Our goal is to upend traditional power dynamics in grantmaking and build more collaborative relationships with our grantees. 

Our process this year involved extensive community input, including 1:1 meetings with over 100 community members about their interest in working together on health equity issues, that informed our RFP that was released in the fall. We also launched a pilot program of “hello grants,” a set of small grants focused on relationship-building and engagement with potential new partners to explore opportunities to collaborate in the future. We are thrilled that several of these hello grantees (listed below) turned into full grant awards for next year through our RFP process. 

As we launch our new grantee experience in 2025, the Horizon Foundation is committed to building trust, co-creating solutions to systemic problems and practicing transparency and storytelling to share our grantees’ journeys with our community. 

Elephant Circle, on behalf of the Doula Alliance of Maryland: $40,000 to support the development of the doula and birth worker workforce in Howard County and greater Maryland. 

Flight-Path: $16,622 total to support the Maryland Birth Equity Funders Coalition and seize upon emerging opportunities to improve maternal health for all in Maryland. 

Fusion Partnership, on behalf of Bloom Collective: $20,000 to address systemic disparities in perinatal health outcomes for Black and Brown families in Maryland. 

Mental Health Association of Maryland: $15,000 to offer QPR and Mental Health First Aid trainings to the community free of charge; and $25,000 to lead legislative efforts to enact reforms that will address widespread unmet mental health and substance use needs (total of $40,000). 

Planned Parenthood of Maryland; Stillborn and Infant Loss Support; Howard County Health Department; Luminus Network, Inc.; and Morgan State University Foundation: $3,000 each (total of $15,000) to convene a Maternal Health Workgroup with the Horizon Foundation. Participants in this workgroup will connect, build relationships and identify potential maternal health policy opportunities.  

Bridges to Housing Stability: $150,000; CASA: $200,000; Community Development Network of Maryland: $200,000; Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition dba Economic Action Maryland: $150,000; and People Acting Together in Howard (PATH): $200,000: Funding for the next two years to support participating organizations to co-create policy and programmatic solutions focused on housing justice. 

Bridges to Housing Stability; Building Families for Children Inc.; Columbia Housing Center; Community Action Council of Howard County; Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center, Inc.; Luminus Network, Inc.; MakingChange, Inc.; and Maryland Inclusive Housing: $10,000 each (total of $80,000) to participate in a workgroup throughout 2025 that will identify prevention strategies to address housing insecurity particularly for Black and Brown communities, explore ways to strengthen service coordination and make policy recommendations to support systems change. 

People Acting Together in Howard (PATH); CASA; Stillborn and Infant Loss Support; Community Development Network of Maryland; and Everyday Canvassing: $6,000 each (total of $30,000) to build and enhance relationships with the Horizon Foundation and the Howard County community, and explore alignment for future opportunities. 

BLK ED Network: $30,000 to support the engagement and capacity building of Black women leaders in Howard County.  

Howard County General Hospital: $200,000 to support the hospital’s patient care pavilion and physical plant renovation. 

JustLiving Advocacy, Inc.: $20,000 to provide organizational capacity support. 

Lindaben Foundation Inc.: $10,000 to provide organizational capacity support and expand healthy food options in Howard County. 

States Newsroom: $20,000 for Maryland Matters to continue expanding news coverage of public health issues (especially those related to Foundation priorities) at both the state and local levels. 

Women’s Giving Circle of Howard County: $10,000 to support the development of a report focusing on the experiences of Black women nonprofit leaders in Howard County and to offer additional community trainings and support.