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Grateful Hearts Foundation at a glance

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Grateful Hearts Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$356kHuman Services$53kYouth Development$36kEnvironment$35kHealth$18kFood & Nutrition$7kRecreation & Sports$5kEducation$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$1,030
Median grant
7
States reached
$827k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP ID-RA-HA-JE$15,449
SROM$10,000
JONI AND FRIENDS$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,072
CLIMBING FOR CHRIST$5,000
SHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE$1,240
LIFE'S OPTIONS PREGNANCY CENTER$1,040
SHERIDAN SENIOR CENTER$1,030
LEGACY PREGNANCY CENTER$1,025
MEALS ON WHEELS$1,023
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$531
COMPASS CENTER$531
TURNING POINT USA$511
Individual grant recipient$511
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$500
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE: $1k → 10%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 12%SHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE: $515 → 10%SHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE: $515 → 10%SHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE: $515 → 10%SHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE: $515 → 10%SHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
WY
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$498k · 25 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
5

Total granted

$498k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+100%

Still filing today

36%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentReligionHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CI
    CAMP ID-RA-HA-JE ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $141k · revenue +45%
  • JA
    JONI AND FRIENDS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +73%
  • CF
    CLIMBING FOR CHRIST INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • K
    K-LIFE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • KO
    K-LIFE OF SHERIDAN
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • AB
    ANTELOPE BUTTE SKI PATROL
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Colorado Christian Service Camp

Through this unique mountain environment to encourage and challenge campers to become fully devoted followers of christ by making decisions to follow christ rededicating their lives to christ and being called into full time ministry.

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2
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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3
Financial Planning Ministry

Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.

Health
4
Faith Mountain Ministries

Church

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5
Turning Point Counseling Inc

To serve the body of christ by restoring the saints, growing the church and supporting leadership. our desire is to bring emotional, relational and spiritual health to those inside and outside the body of christ.

Religion
6
Christian Life Ministries

Counsel beleivers who are in need of spiritual and mental healing. bring non believers the good news of the gospel of grace. educate others on how to counsel through the word of god. provide seminars and conferences to enhance christian…

Human Services
7
Timberline Baptist Camp & Conference Center Inc

Christian retreat center

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8
Young Life

Young life is a ministry to help adolescents around the world become exposed to the person of jesus christ. this is accomplished in a variety of ways desgined to provide personal, religious experiences. (continued on schedule o)included…

Youth Development
9
Turning Point for God

To broadcast the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the available means including television, radio, internet, recorded, and written formats.

Religion
10
Gull Lake Ministries

Gull lake ministries provides bible based, christian retreats year-round for families, churches and organizations where we exalt jesus and share his truth.

Religion
11
Shepherd's Refuge-Selah Ministries Inc

We provide opportunities for spiritual renewal to pastors, church leaders and missionaries involved in the ministry of the gospel of jesus christ being renewed, refreshed and returning to their communities strengthened and more effective…

Religion
12
Wilderness Trek Christian Camp Inc

To transform lives and pierce hearts through god's presence and power as experienced in the grandeur of his creation.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 32 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SROM: $91,500 · OtherSROMJONI AND FRIENDS: $60,500 · OtherJONI AND FRIENDSIndividual grant recipient: $34,772 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJONI FRIENDS MINISTRY: $30,000 · OtherJONI FRIENDS MINISTRYCRU MINISTRY: $25,700 · OtherCRU MINISTRY+18 more: $73,180 · Other+18 moreCAMP ID-RA-HA-JE ASSOCIATION: $141,017 · Recreation & SportsCAMP ID-RA-HA-JE ASSOCIATIONSHERIDAN KIDS LIFE: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTIKKUN OLAM MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHERN COLORADO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $1,200 · Youth DevelopmentCLIMBING FOR CHRIST INC: $10,250 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,000 · ReligionLIFES OPTIONS PREGNANCY CENTER: $9,140 · HealthSHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE: $3,800 · Human ServicesDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$315,652Recreation & Sports$141,017Youth Development$31,200Religion$12,250Health$9,140Human Services$6,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMP ID-RA-HA-JE ASSOCIATION: $141,017 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $60,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHERIDAN KIDS LIFE: $20,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCLIMBING FOR CHRIST INC: $10,250 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTIKKUN OLAM MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetLIFES OPTIONS PREGNANCY CENTER: $9,140 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE: $3,800 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES: $531 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $511 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.

  • Who funds CAMP ID-RA-HA-JE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds SHERIDAN KIDS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds CLIMBING FOR CHRIST INC ↗
  • Who funds TIKKUN OLAM MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFES OPTIONS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE ↗
  • Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Grateful Hearts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grateful Hearts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s 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
    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 32 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-PF 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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