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Heartgift Foundation

Provides lifesaving heart surgery to children from around the world where specialized medical treatment is either scarce or nonexistent.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.1M
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 2024.

International$1.3MHealth$1.1MYouth Development$13k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $2,596,523, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,666,071 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $69,548 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $591k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$222,388
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL$1,080,476
WORLD GOSPEL MISSION$586,635
FRIENDS OF KARDIAS$318,264
CARE FOR A CHILD'S HEART$222,388
VOOM FOUNDATION$167,360
HOSPITALS FOR HUMANITY$121,400
HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE$80,000
PANZI FOUNDATION$20,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VOOM FOUNDATION: $167k → 15%GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL: $1.1M → 13%FRIENDS OF KARDIAS: $318k → 17%CARE FOR A CHILD'S HEART: $222k → 10%HOSPITALS FOR HUMANITY: $155k → 14%WORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $587k → 19%HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE: $80k → 10%PANZI FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%VOOM FOUNDATION: $63k → 15%GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL: $473k → 13%FRIENDS OF KARDIAS: $189k → 17%CARE FOR A CHILD'S HEART: $207k → 10%HOSPITALS FOR HUMANITY: $121k → 14%HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE: $80k → 10%VOOM FOUNDATION: $51k → 15%GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL: $327k → 13%CARE FOR A CHILD'S HEART: $182k → 10%HOSPITALS FOR HUMANITY: $57k → 14%HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE: $80k → 10%VOOM FOUNDATION: $35k → 15%GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL: $198k → 13%CARE FOR A CHILD'S HEART: $117k → 10%HOSPITALS FOR HUMANITY: $43k → 14%HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE: $72k → 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: $5.4M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Central America and the Caribbean$2.9M · 54% · 8 people

Stated purpose: MEDICAL SERVICES & FACILITIES

East Asia and the Pacific$1.6M · 30% · 10 people

Stated purpose: MEDICAL SERVICES & FACILITIES

South America$535k · 10% · 3 people

Stated purpose: MEDICAL SERVICES & FACILITIES

Sub-Saharan Africa$323k · 6% · 1 person

Stated purpose: MEDICAL SERVICES & FACILITIES

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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 6 repeat orgs$619k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$4.3M
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+211%
+540%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $607k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GO
    GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +62% · 27% of their budget
  • TH
    TAKE HEART ASSOCIATION PROJECT INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $728k · revenue +294% · 66% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF KARDIAS FOUNDATION ATTN SERGIO LAGUNES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $508k · revenue +211% · 98% of their budget

Funded once

  • CO
    Champions Off the Fieldgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +540%
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
Global Heartcare Foundation
Health
2
Foundation for Cardiovascular Care in Africa

The foundation for cardiovascular care in africa's mission is to save lives by developing comprehensive cardiac care systems in africa, especially for children and young adults living in poverty

Health
3
Heart Healers International

Improve outcomes for African children with heart disease

Health
4
Heart Attack Ethiopia Inc

Heart Attack Ethiopia Inc. ("HAE") is a nonprofit organization founded by two Ethiopian-American physicians that are dedicated to combating the alarming increase in the premature death rates resulting from heart attacks and strokes in…

Health
5
Humanity for Children

Providing healthcare assistance to countries in africa

Philanthropy
6
Mali Medical Relief Fund

We serve needy families in Mali who find themselves in medical crisis. Since our founding in 2008, we have helped hundreds of patients access life saving medical care, by paying for medicines, medical tests, and surgeries. We treat complex…

Food & Nutrition
7
For Children Worldwide Inc

Our mission is to make available life saving surgery for impoverished children with congenital and acquired heart diseasefrom underserved areas throughout the world. We provide training, education and resources to care for these children…

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8
The Gift of Life Inc

To further the cause of world peace and understanding by facilitating free medical services to children suffering from heart disease and other similar or allied diseases, regardless of race, creed or national origin and who otherwise would…

International
9
Haiti Healthcare Partners

To provide charitable assistance to the people in need in haiti, including, but not limited to, providing support to build, maintain and operate a healthcare facility.

International
10
Vital Health Africa

Providing low cost high impact intervention in maternal newborn and child health in sub saharan africa.

—
11
Cure a Little Heart Foundation

Provide medical care for indegent children

Health
12
One Heart Health

Develop cost-effective medical technologies to enable early diagnosis of heart disease in children who live in low resource areas of the world, thereby improving health outcomes.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gift of Life International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Champions Off the Field. 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

9 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.

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

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,078,676 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INCTAKE HEART ASSOCIATION PROJECT INC: $728,396 · HealthTAKE HEART ASSOCIATION PROJECT INCFRIENDS OF KARDIAS FOUNDATION ATTN SERGIO LAGUNES: $507,528 · HealthFRIENDS OF KARDIAS FOUNDATION ATTN SERGIO LAGUNESTHE VOOM FOUNDATION: $316,360 · HealthTHE VOOM FOUNDATIONINTERNATIONAL CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC: $312,000 · HealthINTERNATIONAL CARDIAC ALLIANCE INCFairhaven South Inc: $586,635 · OtherFairhaven Sou…HOSPITALS FOR HUMANITY FOUNDATION: $375,480 · InternationalHOSPITALS…PANZI FOUNDATION: $20,000 · InternationalChampions Off the Field: $12,500 · Youth Development
Health$3,942,960Other$586,635International$395,480Youth Development$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,078,676 over 4y, 27% of budgetTAKE HEART ASSOCIATION PROJECT INC: $728,396 over 4y, 66% of budgetFairhaven South Inc: $586,635 over 1y, 59% of budgetFRIENDS OF KARDIAS FOUNDATION ATTN SERGIO LAGUNES: $507,528 over 2y, 98% of budgetHOSPITALS FOR HUMANITY FOUNDATION: $375,480 over 4y, 68% of budgetTHE VOOM FOUNDATION: $316,360 over 4y, 15% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC: $312,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetChampions Off the Field: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 9 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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