An institutional philanthropic platform founded by investor Patrick B. Horsman and seeded with a $2 million personal gift. Launched in 2015 as the Four Peaks Foundation, it invests its capital alongside the alternative-asset portfolio of Horsman Holdings, and channels the returns into scholarships, education access, and the next wave of American founders.
The Foundation exists at the intersection of two convictions: that a serious education is the foundation of a great career, and that the most durable institutions are the ones that compound capital alongside their mission. The Patrick Horsman Foundation does both. It funds undergraduate scholarships for students pursuing entrepreneurship, and it deploys its corpus into the same alternative investment strategies that built Patrick Horsman's career, generating the returns that fund the next generation of awards.
Launched in 2015 as the Four Peaks Foundation and later merged into the Patrick Horsman Foundation, the platform was seeded with a $2 million personal gift from Patrick B. Horsman. It operates from San Juan, Puerto Rico, with trustees overseeing both the philanthropic and the investment sides of the platform. It is intentionally lean. We make a small number of meaningful awards each year, we invest the balance sheet thoughtfully, and we measure success in the careers our scholars go on to build.
The Patrick Horsman Entrepreneurship Scholarship provides $2,500 awards twice a year to talented undergraduates studying business, entrepreneurship, finance, or accounting at accredited US institutions.
The Foundation's corpus is invested in alongside Horsman Holdings's alternative portfolio: hedge funds, private equity, real estate, litigation finance, agriculture, and digital assets.
Every dollar earned by the Foundation's investments is redeployed into scholarships, leadership programs, and partnerships that build entrepreneurial capacity for decades.
The Foundation is governed by two trustees who together bring more than fifty years of combined alternative investment experience. The same discipline that shaped Horsman Holdings' portfolio governs how the Foundation's capital is invested and awarded.
Patrick founded the Foundation and seeded it with a $2 million personal gift to channel his investment success back into education. A serial entrepreneur and investor across hedge funds, private equity, and digital assets, he is the Founder and Managing Partner of Octopus Investments and the Managing Partner of Horsman Holdings, his single-family office.
Russ serves as Trustee of the Foundation and CIO of Horsman Holdings, where he has overseen the family office's investment activities since 2008. He works with Patrick on portfolio construction across the same alternative strategies the Foundation participates in: hedge funds, private equity, real estate, litigation finance, agriculture, insurance, and digital assets.
The Foundation's endowment is invested in the same alternative strategies as Horsman Holdings, the Horsman family office. Patrick and Russ have spent two decades sourcing and underwriting these strategies, and the Foundation benefits directly from their access, due diligence, and pricing.
Litigation finance, market-neutral, and other uncorrelated strategies sourced through Patrick's two-decade institutional network across the alternatives ecosystem.
Late-stage private companies approaching public-market liquidity, often co-invested alongside Esoteric Strategies and other Horsman platforms.
Institutional real estate development across the Western US, anchored by the team behind Crimson Canyon's approximately 2-million-square-foot pipeline.
Public-company digital asset treasury participation and native yield strategies in the Binance ecosystem, alongside BNB Plus Corp. (Nasdaq: BNBX).
Approximately 17,000 acres developed across Arizona and California by Integrated Ag, a platform Patrick co-founded with a specialty in sub-surface drip irrigation.
Litigation finance exposure built on the playbook of Merion Investment Management, the litigation finance fund Patrick co-founded in 2009 that reached approximately $1.2 billion in AUM.
Charitable capital seeded by the founder, intended to compound long-term.
Sources, underwrites, and operates the same alternative portfolio for both.
Investment returns are redeployed into scholarships and education partnerships.
The Foundation's scholarship program funds undergraduates studying business, finance, accounting, entrepreneurship, or a related field at accredited US colleges and universities. Grades are a strong consideration. What matters most is the essay, which is reviewed personally by Patrick.
The prompt is direct: why do you want to become an entrepreneur, and why do you believe you will be successful? Applicants are encouraged to share their stories, backgrounds, and the personal characteristics that set them apart. The deadlines are June 1 and December 1 each year, with winners notified in July and January.
Beyond the scholarship, Patrick is a co-founder of Paradiso College Preparatory, a tuition-free, college-preparatory charter school network serving students across Puerto Rico. He serves on the board of the Charter Management Organization and personally contributed more than $2 million toward the school's $17 million in launch capital.
Paradiso delivers a rigorous, multilingual, STEAM-based education built around a Dual Language Two-Way Bilingual program and Personalized Learning Plans for every student. The school's community values, Courage, Empathy, and Teamwork, are woven through its college-preparatory model, which is designed to prepare every graduate for success in high school, college, and beyond.
The network began with the middle grades and adds a new upper-school grade each year as its founding cohort advances, building deliberately toward a complete college-preparatory pathway. For Patrick, Paradiso reflects the same conviction behind the Foundation: that access to a serious education is the most durable investment anyone can make in the next generation.