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HORIZON FOUNDATION INC

EIN 65-0872214 FORT MYERS, FL

Largest nonprofits in Florida

Revenue 2024
$600,423
Expenses 2024
$668,833

Program services were 84.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T30
Classification
1000
Street
2031 JACKSON ST STE 120

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SEE SCHEDULE O.

  • 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.

    Expenses $288,098

  • THE 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.

    Expenses $165,582 · Grants $165,582

  • Expenses $108,406

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • William Johnson

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $94,375
    From this org
    $94,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Mark Stevens

    PRES/DIRECTO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Ryan Carter

    VP/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Sandy Stilwell Youngquist

    TREASURER/DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Fred Edman

    SECRETARY/DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Holly Smith

    PAST PRES/DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Diana Giraldo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Matt Price

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • John Talmage

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Doug Gyure

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Dr Guido Minaya

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $600,423
    Expenses
    $668,833
    Contributions
    $565,686
    Grants paid
    $165,582
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $598,513
    Expenses
    $698,710
    Contributions
    $578,928
    Grants paid
    $134,218
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $543,275
    Expenses
    $457,002
    Contributions
    $543,228
    Grants paid
    $74,542

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $501,104
    Expenses
    $405,396
    Assets (EOY)
    $812,756
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $418,516
    Expenses
    $252,851
    Assets (EOY)
    $716,951
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $292,733
    Expenses
    $127,109
    Assets (EOY)
    $529,510
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $324,532
    Expenses
    $462,851
    Assets (EOY)
    $378,663
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $171,803
    Expenses
    $252,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $553,362
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $361,862
    Expenses
    $417,139
    Assets (EOY)
    $605,776
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $390,289
    Expenses
    $573,030
    Assets (EOY)
    $648,976
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $700,929
    Expenses
    $297,307
    Assets (EOY)
    $846,067
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $280,786
    Expenses
    $261,586
    Assets (EOY)
    $424,908
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $201,093
    Assets (EOY)
    $405,558

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

    $165,582

    2024 MARKETING

  • Economic Development Office

    $134,218

    2023 Contribution towards marketing efforts

  • Economic Development Office

    $74,542

    2022 Contribution towards marketing efforts

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

  • 2022 The Horizon Foundation, a charitable 501(c)(3) organization, was established to provide a funding vehicle for businesses to invest in the longterm economic development and vitality of Lee County. The Foundation raises private sector money to support the efforts of the Lee County Economic Development Office and the Horizon Council in order to improve the area's business climate. LCEC participates regularly on committees and regional initiatives. Funding is partly in support of the Industry Appreciation of area leaders and companies

  • 2024

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.