California · Nonprofit
Sustainable Horizons Institute
Sustainable Horizons Institute (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,463 to it, the largest being THE KRELL INSTITUTE ($30,188). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Sustainable Horizons Institute does
Mission
Our mission is to build sustainable connections between students, faculty, and professionals in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Our approach is unique in two ways: 1 we devised and apply a model which addresses the development of the whole scientists through academic and mentoring support combined with career, professional, and leadership development and 2 we use proven methods and our extensive experience in developing many of our nation's finest scientist and engineers in the mainstream scientific environments. A unique outcome is that we cultivate a science and technology workforce prepared to be leaders and add new dimensions to innovation. We believe a brighter scientific future is on the horizon.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Through our programs we facilitated delivery of online webinars exploring technical, career, professional and leadership development topics to a variety of academic institutions of higher education across the U.S. We also matched faculty, students, and laboratory researchers so they could collaborate in summer research projects, funded participant attendance at a scientific conference where they presented their research results and engaged in the professional society, administered a fellowship program promoting better scientific software, and assisted with the recruitment, outreach, and workforce development activities for a major U.S. national cyber security center.
$638,011 spent$1,046,663 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $638,011.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $879k to $2.2M (+151%).
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: 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of Sustainable Horizons Institute’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 7 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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $37.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Sustainable Horizons Institute’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
Sustainable Horizons Institute 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
100% 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 Sustainable Horizons Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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
Sustainable Horizons Institute draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Sustainable Horizons Institute holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Sustainable Horizons Institute receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- National Science Foundation$2.9M
- Department of Defense$111k
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 Sustainable Horizons Institute
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Sustainable Horizons Institute: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Sustainable Horizons Institute?
- Sustainable Horizons Institute (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,463 to it, the largest being THE KRELL INSTITUTE ($30,188). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sustainable Horizons Institute have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $40,463 in grants to Sustainable Horizons Institute, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sustainable Horizons Institute?
- THE KRELL INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $30,188 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sustainable Horizons Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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