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HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC
HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,885,511 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($4,205,480). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Horizons National Student Enrichment Program Inc does
Mission
The horizons national student enrichment program, inc. (hn) mission: we advance educational equity by building long-term partnerships with students, families, communities, and schools to create experiences outside of school that inspire the joy of learning.our vision is a future in which every child thrives. Horizons national student enrichment program, inc (hn) is the central organization for an award winning network of academic enrichment programs. Hn serves low-income, public school, k-12 students, in summer learning programs supported by school-year components. Hn provides affiliates centralized support services such as training, evaluation, communication, marketing, pr, and consulting services; planning and funding for affiliate program initiatives; other discretionary grants and expansion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hn ensures that all existing, scaling, and launching horizons affiliates can sustain and thrive. Hn leverages its expertise to build, train, and support site and regional boards as well as coach site and executive directors in areas of fundraising, financial management, and program health. Hn also assures quality, by providing continuous program support and evaluation services across the network. Hn coaches affiliate staff and elevates effective practices through network-wide webinars, resource library, and an annual national conference. In addition to governance and fundraising support, hn staff members support recruitment, teacher training, and program implementation and assessment.
$1,835,956 spentof which $484,209 as grants79% of program spendingThe goal of horizons national's expansion efforts is to increase the number of students that can benefit from the horizons experience. Hn provides strategic planning and transitional support to existing affiliates when pursuing growth, which can include adding additional sites or transitioning to a regional model. The expansion team also identifies and develops new sites who are new to the network.
$213,287 spent9% of program spendingOur programmatic support to horizons affiliates includes student assessment software and training, a comprehensive database and data analysis, as well as curriculum development and programmatic support. This initiative has been critical to consistent program quality and model fidelity across affiliates, and to consistent academic gains of 2-3 months improvement each year in reading and math skills for horizons students over the last ten years.
$261,115 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,310,358.
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 $6.1M to $4.3M (−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: 2020 8% · 2021 12% · 2022 16% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Lorna Smith
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $988k → $2.2M.
19 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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 NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
70% 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 NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 49% · 2019 48% · 2020 16% · 2021 14% · 2022 29% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
64% of HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC'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 $6.4M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $460k on record — $235k federal, $225k state.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$235k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$225k
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 NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM 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 HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC?
- HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,885,511 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($4,205,480). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $17,885,511 in grants to HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $4,205,480 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 60 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