Florida · Nonprofit
CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC
CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,023,849 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($861,539). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $508k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $221k
What Cafa-Third Horizon Inc does
Mission
Third horizon is dedicated to developing, producing, exhibiting and distributing film and other art forms that give voice to stories of the caribbean, its diaspora and other marginalized and underrepresented spaces in the global south.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
1) production: third horizon continued the second cycle of its production project support initiative in which there were three miami-based caribbean filmmakers. In 2024, each fellow was awarded an $11,000 grant to support the development of original short films. In 2025, the final $9,000 of the grant was disbursed to each filmmaker, with an additional $5,500 being paid out to support post-production costs. Third horizon was also able to offer some film festival support to four (4) fellows of the previous cohort. 2)distribution:third horizon continued the works on its online-distribution platform - anansi tv - to expand its reach and functionality. The organization was able to add approximately 30 films to the revamped platform and during the year, generated about $1,700 in third-party licensing fees for the filmmakers. 3)exhibition:from may 29 - jun 1, 2025, third horizon hosted its four-day annual film festival in miami. The festival featured 32 films by 36 filmmakers across two venues and welcomed approximately 2,883 in-person attendees. The virtual component ran for seven days and recorded more than 195 views. In addition to the annual festival, third horizon organized multiple…
$414,806 spent$507,955 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $414,806.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $490k to $346k (−30%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 11% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Justen Blaize
Executive director interim
Board chair
Romola Lucas
Board chair and devdist director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $100k → $376k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 84% · 2022 35% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
14% of CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $543k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC?
- CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,023,849 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($861,539). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,023,849 in grants to CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC?
- JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $861,539 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing