Connecticut · Nonprofit
HORIZONS INC
HORIZONS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,034,563 to it, the largest being THE JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($450,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HORIZONS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin Incshared funders
- The Ability Experienceportfolio match
- The Jordan Fundportfolio match
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.
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 24% · 2019 24% · 2020 6% · 2021 12% · 2022 11% · 2023 1% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of HORIZONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $183k → $357k.
14 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 HORIZONS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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 INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
36% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 30% · 2019 22% · 2020 22% · 2021 20% · 2022 43% · 2023 17% — 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
60% of HORIZONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
61% of HORIZONS INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 66 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin Incshared fundersCT · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- The Ability Experienceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jordan Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Enterline Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J Walton Bissell Foundation Incshared fundersCT · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
- Community Fund Management Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Louis Office for Developmental Disability Resourcesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Innovating Worthy Projects Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dralla Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wayne D Kuni and Joan E Kuni Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticutshared fundersCT · backs 98 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding HORIZONS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.8M on record — $380k federal, $6.4M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$380k
- Client Subsidies$4.2M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$2.0M
- Board & Care Of Clients$98k
- State Aid Grants$20k
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 INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Horizons Programs Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HORIZONS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HORIZONS INC?
- HORIZONS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,034,563 to it, the largest being THE JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($450,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HORIZONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $3,034,563 in grants to HORIZONS INC, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HORIZONS INC?
- THE JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HORIZONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 66funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing