Florida · Nonprofit
HORIZON FOUNDATION INC
HORIZON FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being LEE COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC ($37,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $600k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $715k
What Horizon Foundation Inc does
Mission
The foundation is organized exclusively for the support of the economic development office of the lee county government, and its public-private advisory committee, the horizon council.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Programs
With the mission of marketing lee county, business development line items include expenses such as the quarterly business survey enterprise florida sponsorship (efi). Business expenses include prospect visits, fundraising, promotional items and website management tools. Efi is a public-private partnership between florida business and government leaders and its principal goal to expand the region's economy through job creation and by promoting lee county as a destination business location.
$288,098 spent51% of program spendingThe foundation supports and participates in the activities of the horizon council and the lee county economic development office to retain and promote southwest florida as a business destination through sophisticated marketing efforts to strategically attract and retain companies that do or will do business in and with lee county.
$165,582 spentof which $165,582 as grants29% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$108,406 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $562,086.
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 2019 to 2020, from $530k to $717k (+35%).
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: 2021 15% · 2022 18% · 2023 13% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of HORIZON FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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 held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $3k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 FOUNDATION 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
HORIZON FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of HORIZON FOUNDATION 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. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HORIZON FOUNDATION 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 HORIZON FOUNDATION 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 HORIZON FOUNDATION INC?
- HORIZON FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being LEE COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC ($37,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HORIZON FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $50,000 in grants to HORIZON FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HORIZON FOUNDATION INC?
- LEE COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $37,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HORIZON FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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