New Jersey · Nonprofit
GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC
GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,962 to it, the largest being Max and Lilian Rappaport Foundation FT Treatment & Study of Social Trauma ($175,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $224k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $202k
- Net assets
- $411k
What Gift of Life of District 7490 Inc does
Mission
To arrange for open heart surgery for children in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided heart surgeries in us for children in need from all over the world. Surgical teams donated their services; participating hospitals charge a 6,000 fee for disposables per operation.
$18,971 spent5% of program spendingSurgical team and equipment sent to foreign countries where life saving heart surgeries are performed and local medical professionals are trained.
$214,401 spent61% of program spendingProvided medical equipment and heart surgeries for children in need in ukraine in conjunction with ukrainian gift of life.
$117,683 spent34% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $351,055.
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 2021 to 2022, from $283k to $428k (+51%).
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.
99% of GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Giacomo Destefano
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $120k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC’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
GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC: 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 GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC?
- GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,962 to it, the largest being Max and Lilian Rappaport Foundation FT Treatment & Study of Social Trauma ($175,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $201,962 in grants to GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC?
- Max and Lilian Rappaport Foundation FT Treatment & Study of Social Trauma is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIFT OF LIFE OF DISTRICT 7490 INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2017–2025), 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