Colorado · Nonprofit
3HOPEFUL HEARTS
3HOPEFUL HEARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,332,514 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ($452,826). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $387k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What 3hopeful Hearts does
Mission
To provide grief companion support to bereaved parents and families through opportunities to honor, find hope, and seek healing through grief companionship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Direct services: family outreach, camps, and retreats- support from the family support team: the family support team members are specifically trained staff and volunteers who reach out to families soon after the loss of a child and any time during the grief journey. This support team provides outreach in the form of calls, hand-written cards, texts, emails, and in-person meetings (all based on each grievers preference).- listening sessions: provided by trained volunteers, follow a four-session outline to meet, listen to, and integrate our new families to our services. As we welcome and become more familiar with the unique needs of each family or individual, we can better assist them with resources from within and outside our organization.- bear2hope: when a baby loss occurs, a volunteer creates a bear to match the exact weight of the baby. The bear is then delivered to the family at the hospital before the family is discharged in hopes of bridging the gap between delivery and going home. The family is able to hold the bear while grieving and honoring their precious baby. - support groups: with help and support, the grief journey can lead to growth, healing, strength, and…
$214,085 spent$2,545 earned by the program85% of program spendingIndirect services: community outreach and education- parent panels: focused, organized presentations given by bereaved parents to community members, usually in an educational setting. As parents share their stories of loss, community members learn how to better support bereaved families, obtain resources and tools, and take action by implementing loss-and-support-based practices within personal and organizational settings.- perinatal/pediatric bereavement training/ bereavement doula training: similar to parent panels, this more in- depth training is designed for the healthcare community. Training is provided in either a one- or three-day format and is attended by medical professionals, local bereavement doulas, social workers, and chaplains who provide in-patient care. - space/unit blessings : staff of hospitals and/or schools gather with a 3hopeful Hearts staff member to re-align the space where the death of a baby or child occurred, from a space of trauma and heartbreak to a space of remembrance. Impacted staff are guided to reflect on their impact with the bereaved families and also focus on finding self-compassion during their own grief processing.
$25,186 spent10% of program spendingDirect services: community remembrances- walk to remember: provides bereaved families the opportunity to memorialize their loss and transform the often lonely and isolating feelings of grief into a walk of growth, healing, and strength.- annual candlelight tribute: a sacred evening of love and loss, with special music, readings, lighting of individual candles, and a poignant presentation. Bereaved parents and families find comfort as they honor their lost children during the often-challenging holiday season.- vigils: provided and facilitated by 3hh staff and volunteers based on specific requests. Often these are youth-guided and support teens who have lost a peer. Teens are encouraged to gather songs, readings, and stories to honor their grief. Vigils also focus on recognitions days such as pregnancy and infant loss awareness day, suicideremembrance, and substance loss.
$12,593 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $251,864.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $389k to $720k (+85%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of 3HOPEFUL HEARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Sarah Saltee
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $27k → $179k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 3HOPEFUL HEARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
3HOPEFUL HEARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 3HOPEFUL HEARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 64% · 2019 43% · 2020 54% · 2021 36% · 2022 34% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
62% of 3HOPEFUL HEARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
60% of 3HOPEFUL HEARTS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $528k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $805k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
3HOPEFUL HEARTS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like 3HOPEFUL HEARTS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 3HOPEFUL HEARTS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds 3HOPEFUL HEARTS?
- 3HOPEFUL HEARTS (Colorado) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,332,514 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ($452,826). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does 3HOPEFUL HEARTS have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,332,514 in grants to 3HOPEFUL HEARTS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 3HOPEFUL HEARTS?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $452,826 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 3HOPEFUL HEARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds 3hopeful Hearts →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing