Texas · Public charity
Heartgift Foundation
Provides lifesaving heart surgery to children from around the world where specialized medical treatment is either scarce or nonexistent.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $222,388
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,080,476
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Heartgift Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $2.6M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $1.2M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $709k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $465k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $13k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gift of Life International Inc | $2,078,676 | 4 | 27% |
| Take Heart Association Project Inc | $728,396 | 4 | 66% |
| Fairhaven South Inc | $586,635 | 1 | 59% |
| Friends of Kardias Foundation Attn Sergio Lagunes | $507,528 | 2 | 98% |
| Hospitals for Humanity Foundation | $375,480 | 4 | 68% |
| The Voom Foundation | $316,360 | 4 | 15% |
| International Cardiac Alliance Inc | $312,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Panzi Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Champions Off the Field | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Heartgift Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Heartgift Foundation
- How much does Heartgift Foundation give?
- Heartgift Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $2,596,523, out of $2,666,071 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Heartgift Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (53%), Health (46%), Youth Development (1%).
- Who are Heartgift Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gift of Life International Inc ($2.1M), Take Heart Association Project Inc ($728k), Fairhaven South Inc ($587k).
- Does Heartgift Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Heartgift Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Heartgift Foundation based?
- Heartgift Foundation is based in TX.
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