Kansas · Nonprofit
HORIZON ACADEMY
HORIZON ACADEMY (Kansas) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $755,408 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($258,710). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $755k
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Horizon Academy does
Mission
Horizon Academy empowers students diagnosed with dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities to become effective learners and confident self-advocates. (vision and values on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Horizon Academy serves approximately 120 students in 10 counties within a 75-mile radius. We provide scholarships to approximately 40% of our students through financial assistance raised through our development efforts. Horizon Academy holds accreditation through isacs and advanced and is an approved private agency through missouri dese. Our school day program is recognized by the orton-gillingham academy as a school following orton-gillingham principles approved in providing appropriate educational services to students with dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities. (continued on schedule o)the o-g approach permeates our academic program and includes multisensory math (msm), the writing revolution, and written expression. All teachers are trained in these approaches. In addition, we offer services to the kansas city community through our learning center which offers tutoring and testing services. We act as a resource to the community by offering free events that promote awareness of learning disabilities as well as training for teachers. Over 600 students have transitioned from our school. Many have achieved being on the honor roll, have graduated college and have…
$3,720,916 spentof which $366,140 as grants$4,099,766 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,720,916.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $4.2M to $6.6M (+55%).
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: 2020 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of HORIZON ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $54k → $23k.
9 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 HORIZON ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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
HORIZON ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
54% 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 HORIZON ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 54% · 2019 47% · 2020 23% · 2021 50% · 2022 30% · 2023 66% — broadly stable.
“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
22% of HORIZON ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
50% of HORIZON ACADEMY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $376k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $380k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HORIZON ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HORIZON ACADEMY
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HORIZON ACADEMY: 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 HORIZON ACADEMY?
- HORIZON ACADEMY (Kansas) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $755,408 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($258,710). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HORIZON ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $755,408 in grants to HORIZON ACADEMY, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HORIZON ACADEMY?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $258,710 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HORIZON ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 36 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing