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Black Heart Foundation (Us)

The objects of black heart foundation us are for the public benefit, the advancement of education, the relief of sickness and the preservation of health, and other such charitable purposes which are exclusively charitable as the trustees may determine.

$846k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$2.8MHealth$323kEnvironment$6kYouth Development$5k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $64,041, the rows itemized in this filing. The $846,269 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $782,228 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$64,041
Median grant
1
States reached
$496k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK (LERN)$64,041
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%HAVERHILL YMCA: $5k → 10%KELLY WRITERS HOUSE: $33k → 22%LYMPHATIC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH NETWORK: $116k → 17%URBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $6k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $25k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND: $1.6M → 10%LEAP FOR EDUCATION: $90k → 10%KELLY WRITERS HOUSE: $33k → 22%LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK (LERN): $75k → 17%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND: $350k → 10%LEAP FOR EDUCATION: $25k → 10%LYMPHATIC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH NETWORK: $68k → 17%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND: $350k → 10%LEAP FOR EDUCATION: $10k → 10%LYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK (LERN): $64k → 17%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND: $246k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $778k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, $370k to organizations and $408k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$778k · 100% · 9 grants · 174 people

Stated purpose: DONATION TO HORAN AND ROSE FUNDRAISING EVENT TO SUPPORT CANCER RESEARCH 2024. · DONATION TO THE SPRINGBOARD FOUNDATION IN 2024. · DONATION TO THE OLD VIC THEATRE IN 2024.

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 8 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trustees of Dartmouth College: $2,596,191 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeLEAP for Education Inc: $125,107 · Education+3 more: $115,581 · EducationLYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN): $322,835 · HealthLYMPHATIC E…THE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $6,288 · EnvironmentHAVERHILL YMCA: $5,000 · Other
Education$2,836,879Health$322,835Environment$6,288Other$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $2,596,191 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLYMPHATIC EDUCATION & RESEARCH NETWORK INC (LE&RN): $322,835 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc: $125,107 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $65,581 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $6,288 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Black Heart Foundation (Us) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Black Heart Foundation (Us). Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Leap for Education Inc: 5% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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