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Heart of a Lion

The Heart of a Lion was founded in July of 2020 to leave a legacy make a major impact on the world of philanthropy. Our passion is for Americas children, first responders our nations Veterans. As contributors to organizations we strongly believe in, we are increasing support awareness in meeting the mission requirements of these…

$183k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$145k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$7,700
Largest grant, FY2024
$125,000
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$40k
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Youth Development$270kHuman Services$29kRecreation & Sports$18kHealth$14kAnimals$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys & Girls Club of the Arkansas River Valley Inc$270,000210%
Warriors for Freedom$29,00015%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$7,70010%
Bull Nettle Ranch Inc$6,2901n/a
Cancer Cartel$6,20812%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Heart of a Lion

How much does Heart of a Lion give?
Heart of a Lion reported 4 itemized grants totaling $145,198, out of $182,977 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Heart of a Lion fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (80%), Human Services (9%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
Who are Heart of a Lion's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Club of the Arkansas River Valley Inc ($270k), Warriors for Freedom ($29k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($8k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Heart of a Lion?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Heart of a Lion based?
Heart of a Lion is based in PA.

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 6 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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