Open Horizon

Founded in December 2019, Open Horizon is a family foundation based in Alexandria, VA. Open Horizon collaborates with nonprofit partners to uplift leaders and to co-create opportunities advancing racial and social justice. The organization seeks to build authentic and caring relationships with its partners by centering their well-being, dignity, and needs so that we can intentionally support them in ways that they have identified.

The Open Horizon founders are both influenced by their European Jewish heritage. Their forebears immigrated to the United States to escape the horrors of persecution and war. This has influenced their commitment to support education, to create a stronger civil society, and to promote economic equity. Current foundation priorities include projects in the DMV (DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia region), the US South, and expanding intentionally to indigenous communities. Open Horizon organizes partnerships around education justice, economic justice, health justice (healing justice), and transformational justice.

The foundation is at an inflection point, not only as Open Horizon matures in its sixth year of operation and expands to add new leadership for its initiatives, but also in the context of a society that is fighting to uphold democracy while many try to defend the dignity and worth of targeted individuals, identities, and communities. The foundation recognizes histories of intentional harm against Black and Brown people, LGBTQI+ identities, and the ways that legacies of brutality and separation cause continued systemic inequities.