Horizon 2045

What Horizon 2045 does

Horizon 2045 is a 501c3 non-profit organization founded in 2020 that designs governance frameworks, legal strategies, and foresight tools for interconnected global security threats, including climate disruption, nuclear instability, democratic erosion, synthetic biology, and pandemics. The organization positions itself as a design and facilitation partner for senior leaders—former heads of state, legal experts, emerging nuclear leaders, and philanthropic funders—rather than a commercial product vendor. Its core analytical asset is the Foresight Radar, an interactive horizon scanning tool tracking 500+ signals across seven security domains and refreshed semi-annually, which feeds the Nuclear Systems Map, scenario planning exercises, and the AI-enhanced Anticipatory Philanthropy pilot with Global Philanthropy Forum.

The product portfolio is program-centric: the Women Transforming Global Security (WTGS) initiative co-launched with The Elders and Ploughshares, the Lex Mundi Nova international law initiative, the cohort-based Nuclear Futures Fellowship, the Watershed publication, the Far Futures Lab scenario platform, and the 'Security & the Future: 2030 Scenarios' foresight framework. Distribution is non-commercial and runs through open-access digital platforms, partnership networks, and convening events (symposiums, intensives, webinars). The organization is funded by philanthropic grants and donations from MacArthur Foundation, Ploughshares Fund, and Skoll Foundation, with a 5-person leadership team supported by an inaugural Board of Directors formed in October 2025. Revenue is not publicly disclosed; given the scale of named major funders, the program portfolio, and headcount, annual operating support is estimated in the $1M–$5M band.

Name

Horizon 2045

Legal name

Horizon 2045

Website

https://horizon2045.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Horizon 2045 is a 501c3 non-profit that builds governance frameworks and foresight tools for interconnected global security threats, serving former heads of state, legal experts, nuclear leaders, and philanthropic funders through programs like the Foresight Radar, WTGS, and Nuclear Futures Fellowship.

Ownership category

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Product category

Global Security Governance Services

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (54162)

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Climate Policy, Governance & NDC Support (BPADALAA)

Keywords

• Global security governance
• Strategic foresight
• Nuclear risk reduction
• Horizon scanning tools
• Philanthropic advisory

Headquarters

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Philanthropic Grants and Donations: Horizon 2045 operates as a 501c3 organization funded primarily through grants and donations from foundations and individual philanthropists. Major funders include MacArthur Foundation, Ploughshares Fund, and Skoll Foundation. The organization solicits donations through its website and offers various partnership levels including anchor investments for general operating support and program-specific investments.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Horizon 2045 is a 501c3 non-profit that redesigns governance frameworks, coalitions, and legal architecture to address interconnected global security threats including climate disruption, democratic erosion, synthetic biology, nuclear instability, and pandemics. It delivers foresight infrastructure (the Foresight Radar, Nuclear Systems Map, scenario planning), cohort fellowships for emerging nuclear leaders, international legal strategy programs, and convenings of senior women leaders and philanthropic funders. The organization operates through programs rather than commercial products.

Product overview

Horizon 2045 operates as a program-centric organization rather than a technology product company. Its portfolio consists of interconnected governance and foresight programs: the Foresight Radar serves as the core analytical tool (an interactive horizon scanning platform tracking 500+ signals across seven security domains), which underpins multiple programs including Women Transforming Global Security (WTGS), Lex Mundi Nova, Nuclear Futures Fellowship, and Anticipatory Philanthropy. Supporting publications include Watershed (strategic foresight zine) and Security & the Future: 2030 Scenarios. The organization functions as a design and facilitation partner that turns ideas into governance frameworks, legal strategies, deliberative tools, and foresight infrastructure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Watershed: A zine/publication created by Horizon 2045 for thinking out loud about global security, international law, emerging technologies, and interconnected challenges. The inaugural issue focuses on foresight and the nuclear field.
• Foresight Radar
• Far Futures Lab
• Women Transforming Global Security (WTGS)
• Lex Mundi Nova

Products and services

• Foresight Radar Interactive horizon scanning tool tracking over 500 signals of change across seven security domains (environment, finance and economics, governance and politics, health and wellbeing, infrastructure, society and culture, and technology), updated semi-annually to help leaders anticipate crises and stress-test strategies.
• Women Transforming Global Security (WTGS) Partnership initiative with The Elders and Ploughshares convening senior women leaders including former heads of state to develop governance tools addressing the intersections of nuclear weapons, climate change, emerging technologies, public health, and human rights.
• Lex Mundi Nova Initiative to strengthen international law as a bulwark against nuclear dangers by engaging legal experts to apply advances in environmental, human rights, and intergenerational justice law to delegitimize nuclear weapons and constrain nuclear states' behavior.
• Nuclear Futures Fellowship Cohort-based fellowship for emerging and established nuclear leaders designed to build long-term thinking, systems knowledge, and cross-issue awareness through strategic foresight methodology, horizon scanning, and the Nuclear Systems Map.
• Anticipatory Philanthropy Pilot program developed with Global Philanthropy Forum combining scenario planning with AI-enhanced decision-support tools to help philanthropic leaders build adaptive capacity and deploy capital toward intervention points that compound across multiple interconnected threats.
• Watershed Strategic foresight zine/publication platform for working out ideas in public on topics including security, governance, and the interconnected challenges shaping the future, with an inaugural issue focused on foresight and the nuclear field.
• Security & the Future: 2030 Scenarios Three alternative future scenarios (Border Crossing, Race for Resilience, The Longsight Paradigm) designed to help leaders imagine opportunities and risks grounded in signals of change for long-term security planning.
• Far Futures Lab Storytelling platform exploring what becomes possible when nuclear weapons are removed from the human story, featuring scenarios for 2095 based on an imagined 2045 disarmament date.

Quantifiable outcome

• 9.5/10 likelihood that 2025 Nuclear Futures Fellows would recommend the fellowship to their colleagues
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered collaborator, core and foundational.

• Lex Mundi Nova Webinar Partners (AfSIL, Geneva Institute, IPPNW, LCNP, University of Johannesburg, IALANA, ICAN)collaboratorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 April 2026Partners for the six-part Lex Mundi Nova webinar series on the 30th anniversary of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Nuclear Weapons. Includes the African Society of International Law, Geneva Graduate Institute, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, University of Johannesburg, International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, and International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
• Ploughshares FundcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerA recognized leader in nuclear risk reduction and key strategic partner for several Horizon 2045 initiatives. The partnership includes the Nuclear Futures Fellowship (co-developing the fellowship program for emerging nuclear leaders), Women Transforming Global Security (WTGS) initiative, co-hosting the 'Security & the Future' symposium, and the Watershed publication (inaugural issue produced in collaboration with Ploughshares). Ploughshares also provides grant funding to Nuclear Futures Fellows for capstone projects on nuclear risk reduction.
• The ElderscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAn independent group of global leaders working for peace and human rights, co-founded by Nelson Mandela. The Elders co-host the Women Transforming Global Security (WTGS) initiative with Horizon 2045 and Ploughshares, dedicated to reducing security threats at the intersection of nuclear weapons, climate change, emerging technologies, public health, and human rights. Key members include Mary Robinson (former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) and Helen Clark (two-time Prime Minister of New Zealand).
• Global Philanthropy ForumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerA collaboration for the Anticipatory Philanthropy pilot program combining Horizon 2045's expertise in strategic foresight and systems change with Global Philanthropy Forum's deep network of reflective philanthropic leaders. The program includes AI-enhanced tools, in-person convenings, and digital platforms to help funders build adaptive capacity for uncertainty.
• N SquarefoundationalStrategic or Co-development PartnerHorizon 2045 emerged as an organization from a project N Square launched in 2020 with the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Rhode Island School of Design's Center for Complexity. N Square convened the fellows whose work on 'An Operating System for the 22nd Century' informed Horizon 2045's current approach.
• Arizona State University (ASU) Science and ImaginationcollaboratorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a collaborator on Horizon 2045's About page. ASU's Science and Imagination initiative works on futures thinking and scientific communication.
• Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)collaboratorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a collaborator on Horizon 2045's About page. NTI is a prominent organization working to reduce nuclear and biological threats, co-founded the original project that led to Horizon 2045.
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)collaboratorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a collaborator on Horizon 2045's About page. IFRC is the world's largest humanitarian network, relevant to Horizon 2045's work on intersecting security threats.
• Impact TrustcollaboratorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a collaborator on Horizon 2045's About page. Impact Trust works on strategic philanthropy and systems change.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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