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GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL

GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,560 to it, the largest being IMC CHICAGO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$17M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$134k
Net assets
$2.9M
2/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Greenheart International does

Mission

Greenheart International connects people and planet to create global leaders through personal development, volunteer service, environmentalism, fair trade, and cultural exchange. We envision a world in which communities come together as agents of change to create a more peaceful and sustainable future for all.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Homestays, educational, volunteering, teaching and environmental programs for u.s. Participants abroad. Homestays and education for international students in the united states. Internships, trainee, and work programs for international participants in the united states.

    $15,753,535 spent$14,753,382 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,753,535.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($23M) Expenses 100 ($23M) Net assets 100 ($7.2M)2018 Revenue 93 ($22M) Expenses 96 ($22M) Net assets 96 ($6.9M)2019 Revenue 95 ($22M) Expenses 96 ($22M) Net assets 96 ($6.9M)2020 Revenue 19 ($4.3M) Expenses 35 ($8.1M) Net assets 43 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 43 ($9.9M) Expenses 37 ($8.5M) Net assets 62 ($4.5M)2022 Revenue 71 ($17M) Expenses 55 ($13M) Net assets 101 ($7.3M)2023 Revenue 54 ($13M) Expenses 66 ($15M) Net assets 82 ($5.9M)2024 Revenue 48 ($11M) Expenses 52 ($12M) Net assets 76 ($5.5M)2025 Revenue 74 ($17M) Expenses 87 ($20M) Net assets 40 ($2.9M)
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Revenue (74)Expenses (87)Net assets (40)Peer revenue range

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 $9.9M to $7.4M (−25%).

$10M
$9.9M
$9.9M
$7.4M
$8.8M
$9.7M
$8.3M
$7.4M
$6.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 7% · 2020 16% · 2021 23% · 2022 22% · 2023 12% · 2024 17% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

12% of GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 388 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$253k
’17
−$294k
’18
−$14k
’19
−$3.8M
’20
$1.4M
’21
$4.0M
’22
−$2.6M
’23
−$622k
’24
−$2.6M
’25
0.5
months of
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

Matt Smith

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed13131512131515816
Joined·+1+3+2+1+4+4+0+10
No longer listed·11502472
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $25k → $13k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL’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

GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

37%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2020 75% — growing more concentrated.

“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

25% of GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 FY2020, 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

GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.

IL
WI
MI
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL's revenue fell 26% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.8M on record.

Federal$14.8M
grants $14.8Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of State$14.8M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL

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In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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 2 states

IL
CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL?
GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,560 to it, the largest being IMC CHICAGO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $133,560 in grants to GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL?
IMC CHICAGO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 8 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