Iowa · Nonprofit
HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE
HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE (Iowa) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,236,875 to it, the largest being HERITAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING ($9,071,772). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Horizons a Family Service Alliance does
Mission
Our mission at horizons is to "instill hope, change lives and brighten futures by providing life changing services to underserved populations." we do this by providing a broad continuum of services to our clients who deal with mental and behavioral health, financial, food and nutrition challenges. Horizons provides mental health counseling and family support services, food and nutrition services, and consumer credit counseling services to children, adolescents and adults.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Horizons provides housing counseling, financial literacy, budgeting, & bill payment services to individuals in the community. Services are provided in both individual & group settings in person and online.
$299,157 spent$130,239 earned by the program8% of program spendingMeals on wheels: horizons provided meals and nutrition services to older adults and persons with disabilities. Services were provided both at congregate dining sites for those able to attend, and as a home-delivered service for those who are homebound.
$2,094,779 spent$409,248 earned by the program56% of program spendingNeighborhood transportation service: operated a curb to curb van service providing affordable night and weekend transportation to work, school, or life skill classes during times when the fixed route city buses do not operate in winter months.
$1,328,867 spent$558,962 earned by the program36% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,722,803.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.5M to $6.2M (+14%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 22% · 2020 56% · 2021 47% · 2022 17% · 2023 19% · 2024 17% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Katie Oatsvall
CEO
Board chair
Adam Conzemius
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $5k → $1.1M.
10 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.7M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of East Central Iowa). These are real filings, and they are not money HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 99% · 2020 93% · 2021 95% · 2022 95% · 2023 80% — 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
29% of HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
96% of HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $204k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $522k on record — $522k federal, $23 state.
- Department of Transportation$358k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$164k
- OTHER SPEC PAYMENTS-MEDICIAL SERVICES$23
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE?
- HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE (Iowa) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,236,875 to it, the largest being HERITAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING ($9,071,772). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $10,236,875 in grants to HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE?
- HERITAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING is the largest funder on record, with $9,071,772 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 33 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