Oregon · Nonprofit
DEEP HEART
DEEP HEART (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,302 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($8,158). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $371k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $382k
What Deep Heart does
Mission
Deep Heart uses the performance and visual arts, alongside outreach services, to prevent suicide and violent incidents, reduce recidivism, educate, rehabilitate, and spark personal transformation among the incarcerated community and at-risk populations. Programs include producing transformative entertainment-such as live inspirational events, films, and a magazine-delivered directly into correctional facilities, shelters, detention centers, and crisis-affected communities. These core programs are supported by meal, aid, and correspondence services that offer physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual support to incarcerated individuals and their families, as well as to the homeless, recently released individuals, families living in poverty, and unhoused veterans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
During the tax year, the organization launched a new program focused on supporting children and families experiencing crisis through the creation and distribution of specialized children's books. These books are thoughtfully written and developed by a Deep Heart volunteer to address the emotional challenges faced by children with an incarcerated parent, as well as those navigating foster care placement, family separation, or other destabilizing life events, helping to foster understanding, resilience, and connection. The organization distributes these books to correctional facilities and to partner organizations that serve families affected by incarceration and other crises. Books are either donated or provided at cost to maximize accessibility and program reach. This initiative expands the organization's mission by directly addressing the needs of vulnerable and often underserved populations.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Deep Heart Events are inspirational, multicultural live experiences that combine music, dance, comedy, magic, motivational speaking, and interactive therapeutic theater. These shows are designed to use entertainment to uplift, motivate, and transform marginalized and vulnerable individuals-including those who are incarcerated, homeless, in recovery, or suffering from trauma. These events are the heart of Deep Heart's mission to prevent suicide, reduce recidivism, support rehabilitation, and offer hope through the power of live performance. They are staged directly inside correctional facilities, detention centers, shelters, and underserved communities, providing a rare and often life-changing experience to those who need it most. Each show is made possible through approximately $120,000 annually in donated professional services, including public relations, production, artistic talent, audio/video and stage setup, transportation, and event planning provided by board members and volunteers. In 2025, Deep Heart put on 82 events in 63 distinct locations in 3 countries and 14 U.S. States, for an approx. 572 show hours. The program reached more than 17,000 audience members directly,…
$73,980 spent37% of program spendingDeep Heart UNBOUND is a full-color, glossy magazine created to provide mental, emotional, and spiritual support to incarcerated individuals, their families, and others facing isolation or traumatic circumstances. Designed to combat mental atrophy, encourage personal development, and support rehabilitation, UNBOUND combines graphic and photographic art with original articles, quotes, letters, and stories intended to educate, inspire, and stimulate creative and critical thinking. The publication is made possible by an estimated $75,000 annually in donated professional services including graphic design, digital interface design, content creation, public relations, and project management. It is also supported by advertisers whose services directly benefit the incarcerated population, and by donated shipping and packing materials from UPS, Walmart and Home Depot. In 2025 Deep Heart released, printed and distributed 40,000 copies of the 3rd Edition of Unbound, 'Finding You', in correctional facilities nationwide. 'Finding You' was also uploaded directly onto inmate tablets in many states, and available digitally on several in-prison platforms, including Cipherworks. Deep Heart also…
$65,199 spent$8,550 earned by the program32% of program spendingDeep Heart's films are virtual adaptations of Deep Heart events and combine filmed acts from the show with cinematic nature videography, stories of Deep Heart's travels as they tour, a variety of impactful music videos, dynamic graphics, didactic motivational speaking, educational presentations of thought-replacement and personal growth counseling, and all-original content specifically created for use in correctional facilities as a rehabilitative tool and round-the-clock educational programming. The films are part of Deep Heart's mission to provide the incarcerated community with entertainment that drives transformation and supply prison administrators with a free, productive, positive resource in corrections. In 2025 Deep Heart released its newest feature-length film, 'Junkyard Boulevard: Where Everything Begins', as well as a featurette, "Wild Horses: A Journey Into the West'. 'Wild Horses' was released late March and subsequently uploaded to Cipherworks and on digital platforms nationally, as well as given to every correctional facility on the 2025 fall tour. 'Junkyard Boulevard' was released in December and sent in DVD or USB chip format to over 110 correctional facilities as…
$30,823 spent15% of program spendingDeep Heart's films are virtual adaptations of Deep Heart events and combine filmed acts from the show with cinematic nature videography, stories of Deep Heart's travels as they tour, a variety of impactful music videos, dynamic graphics, didactic motivational speaking, educational presentations of thought-replacement and personal growth counseling, and all-original content specifically created for use in correctional facilities as a rehabilitative tool and round-the-clock educational programming. The films are part of Deep Heart's mission to provide the incarcerated community with entertainment that drives transformation and supply prison administrators with a free, productive, positive resource in corrections. In 2025 Deep Heart released its newest feature-length film, 'Junkyard Boulevard: Where Everything Begins', as well as a featurette, "Wild Horses: A Journey Into the West'. 'Wild Horses' was released late March and subsequently uploaded to Cipherworks and on digital platforms nationally, as well as given to every correctional facility on the 2025 fall tour. 'Junkyard Boulevard' was released in December and sent in DVD or USB chip format to over 110 correctional facilities as…
$27,460 spentof which $7,709 as grants14% of program spendingIn 2025, Deep Heart expanded a facet of its outreach into a new children's book program designed to support children and families impacted by incarceration. Books, Extra Love and How Much Do I Matter?, are created by a Deep Heart volunteer and feature original illustrations and rhyming, read-aloud text written from the perspective of a child with an incarcerated parent and/or in the foster system. The stories are designed to help children process separation, maintain connection, navigate correctional facility visiting processes, see their parents as people in need of love too, discover personal identity and worth, and develop emotional resilience through themes of love, reunification, and family healing. Books are distributed free of charge to correctional facility visiting rooms and provided to nonprofit partners working with affected families. In addition, books are offered at cost to organizations and programs that support literacy and family connection, including initiatives where incarcerated parents record themselves reading the book aloud so that the child can receive both the book and the recording. Program activities expand access to literacy resources, strengthen family…
$3,368 spentof which $450 as grants$4,115 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $200,830.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $227k to $384k (+69%).
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.
94% of DEEP HEART’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. 1 of the last 6 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
Abraham P Woroniecki
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6 → $39.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 DEEP HEART’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
DEEP HEART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 DEEP HEART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 58% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of DEEP HEART'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
DEEP HEART runs a healthier operating margin 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 DEEP HEART
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEEP HEART: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEEP HEART?
- DEEP HEART (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,302 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($8,158). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DEEP HEART have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $14,302 in grants to DEEP HEART, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEEP HEART?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $8,158 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEEP HEART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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