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HORIZON FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC

EIN 52-2119011 COLUMBIA, MD

Revenue 2024
$6,650,191
Expenses 2024
$5,071,556

Program services were 71.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E12
Classification
1000
Street
10221 WINCOPIN CIR STE 200

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 200). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE HORIZON FOUNDATION WORKS SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH COMMUNITY TO BUILD POWER, ADVOCATE FOR POLICY CHANGE, AND DISMANTLE STRUCTURAL RACISM TO ACHIEVE BETTER HEALTH FOR EVERYONE IN HOWARD COUNTY AND GREATER MARYLAND.

  • COMMUNITY BUILDING-HORIZON FOUNDATION CARES PASSIONATELY ABOUT OUR HOWARD COUNTY COMMUNITY AND WE CANNOT DO OUR WORK ALONE. WE RECOGNIZE TRUE SYSTEMIC CHANGE TAKES TIME, AND WE WORK WITH PARTNERS TO BUILD THE BASE, CREATE POLICY WINS AND CATALYZE SUSTAINED MOVEMENTS. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, WE COLLABORATE WITH AND SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND GRANTEES IN DOING THIS WORK THROUGH TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE THAT THEY DEEM IMPORTANT. WE STRIVE TO BRING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FROM AROUND THE REGION, COUNTRY AND WORLD TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND WELLNESS LOCALLY. FROM STRENGTHENING EFFECTIVE POLICIES TO EXPANDING CRITICAL SERVICES AND EDUCATING THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THE ANNUAL MEETING, HORIZON FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO WORK SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH COMMUNITY TO ACHIEVE BETTER HEALTH FOR EVERYONE IN HOWARD COUNTY.

    Expenses $2,090,848

  • GRANT MAKING-SINCE 1998, HORIZON FOUNDATION HAS INVESTED $81 MILLION IN PUBLIC HEALTH, FUNDING OVER 415 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND WORKING WITH PARTNERS ON ISSUES SUCH AS MENTAL HEALTH, CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION, HEALTH CARE ACCESS, HEALTHY AGING AND MORE. AS OF 2024, THE FOUNDATION IS PROVIDING GRANTS IN ALIGNMENT WITH ITS THREE NEW STRATEGIC PRIORITY AREAS: DEMAND AN EQUITABLE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, INCREASE AFFORDABILITY AND BUILD WEALTH AND DISMANTLE STRUCTURAL RACISM THROUGH COMMUNITY BUILDING. THOUGH OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITY AREAS AND TACTICS HAVE EVOLVED OVER THE YEARS, OUR FOCUS HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO IMPROVE PUBLIC HEALTH IN OUR HOWARD COUNTY COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE WHO FACE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BARRIERS TO ACHIEVING GOOD HEALTH. THE HORIZON FOUNDATION IS COMMITTED TO IMPROVING HEALTH THROUGH INNOVATIVE INITIATIVES, COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS, STRATEGIC GRANTMAKING AND THOUGHTFUL ADVOCACY. THE FOUNDATION IS ALSO COMMITTED TO PRACTICING 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. WE FUND COMMUNITY NONPROFITS WHO CAN IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES AND WORK TOWARDS HEALTH EQUITY. IN ADDITION, WE STRENGTHEN THE CAPACITY OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO DISMANTLE LONGSTANDING BARRIERS TO GOOD HEALTH FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND IMPROVE THEIR ABILITY TO ADVANCE MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE.

    Expenses $1,541,112 · Grants $1,252,617 · Revenue $83,928

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Brian Hepburn

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.31 + 0.08 related
  • Catherine Hamel

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.17 + 0.06 related
  • Celian Valero-Colon

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.22 + 0.02 related
  • Christopher Fortune

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.41 + 0.05 related
  • David Wolf

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.44 + 0.07 related
  • Yvette Rooks

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.09 + 0.02 related
  • Gopi Suri

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.26 + 0.05 related
  • Jonathan Ahn

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 0.08 related
  • Juliet N Gilliam

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.29 + 0.05 related
  • Lanlan Xu

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23 + 0.05 related
  • Lisa Pearson

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.34 + 0.09 related
  • Mark Cissell

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.42 + 0.07 related
  • Nicolette Highsmith Vernick

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $548,536
    From this org
    $440,716
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $107,820
    Hours/week
    39.84 + 0.16 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $419,778
    Bonus
    $20,390
    Other
    $548
    Deferred
    $70,574
    Nontaxable benefits
    $38,753
    Filer's total
    $550,043
  • Sekou Murphy

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.22 + 0.02 related
  • Sharon Hoover

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.13 + 0.11 related
  • Yvonne Commodore-Mensah

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 0.11 related
  • Anne Brinker

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $222,952
    From this org
    $166,723
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $56,229
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $158,705
    Bonus
    $4,356
    Other
    $3,662
    Deferred
    $18,983
    Nontaxable benefits
    $38,753
    Filer's total
    $224,459
  • Glenn Schneider

    CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $246,087
    From this org
    $188,573
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $57,514
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $175,283
    Bonus
    $2,000
    Other
    $11,290
    Deferred
    $20,268
    Nontaxable benefits
    $38,753
    Filer's total
    $247,594
  • Cat Harmon

    DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

    Total calculated
    $142,891
    From this org
    $128,736
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,155
    Hours/week
    40
  • Kenitra Fokwa Kengne

    PROGRAM DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $119,424
    From this org
    $107,292
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,132
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,650,191
    Expenses
    $5,071,556
    Contributions
    $20,120
    Grants paid
    $1,252,617
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,160,566
    Expenses
    $4,851,156
    Contributions
    $4,000
    Grants paid
    $642,769
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,341,900
    Expenses
    $5,410,956
    Contributions
    $500
    Grants paid
    $1,368,677

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,300,918
    Expenses
    $6,804,757
    Assets (EOY)
    $103,137,379
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,906,262
    Expenses
    $6,535,227
    Assets (EOY)
    $95,051,877
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,871,234
    Expenses
    $5,467,974
    Assets (EOY)
    $91,697,108
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,088,044
    Expenses
    $5,311,699
    Assets (EOY)
    $84,141,316
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,022,692
    Expenses
    $4,555,884
    Assets (EOY)
    $93,978,790

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility SO.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.