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HEALGRIEF

HEALGRIEF (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,570 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($130,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$25k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$235k
Net assets
$27k
6/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Healgrief does

Mission

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to offer an online community to express grief, promote healing, and provide education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Supporting the foundation's online programming & social media to educate and stress the need for community and support, empowering one's journey with grief

    $10,772 spent
    40% of program spending
  2. A website and phone application maintaining valuable resources supporting the bereaved and communities through grief's journey and promoting a healthy grief recovery

    $12,288 spent
    45% of program spending
  3. Actively moving forward: a college grief support network which connects and empowers grieving college students.

    $3,972 spent
    15% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,032.

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 ($112k) Expenses 100 ($102k) Net assets 100 ($45k)2018 Revenue 116 ($130k) Expenses 119 ($121k) Net assets 121 ($54k)2019 Revenue 102 ($114k) Expenses 122 ($124k) Net assets 98 ($44k)2020 Revenue 125 ($141k) Expenses 95 ($97k) Net assets 195 ($88k)2021 Revenue 31 ($35k) Expenses 68 ($69k) Net assets 119 ($54k)2022 Revenue 13 ($15k) Expenses 56 ($57k) Net assets 26 ($12k)2023 Revenue 87 ($97k) Expenses 68 ($69k) Net assets 89 ($40k)2024 Revenue 84 ($94k) Expenses 99 ($101k) Net assets 74 ($34k)2025 Revenue 22 ($25k) Expenses 31 ($31k) Net assets 60 ($27k)
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Revenue (22)Expenses (31)Net assets (60)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 $44k to $88k (+100%).

$45k
$54k
$44k
$88k
$54k
$12k
$40k
$34k
$27k
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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

100% of HEALGRIEF’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$9k
’18
−$10k
’19
$44k
’20
−$34k
’21
−$42k
’22
$29k
’23
−$7k
’24
−$6k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Nicola Fasano-King

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $25k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 HEALGRIEF’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

HEALGRIEF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 HEALGRIEF.

55%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 63% · 2019 71% · 2020 46% · 2021 77% · 2022 82% · 2023 100% — 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

33% of HEALGRIEF's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

66% of HEALGRIEF'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 $79k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.

MN
WI
NY
CA

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $156k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HEALGRIEF's revenue fell 78% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−25% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

68%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEALGRIEF: 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 HEALGRIEF?
HEALGRIEF (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,570 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($130,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HEALGRIEF have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $234,570 in grants to HEALGRIEF, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HEALGRIEF?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HEALGRIEF find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 12 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