South Dakota · Nonprofit
HEALING THE CULTURE
HEALING THE CULTURE (South Dakota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,403,641 to it, the largest being KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SEATTLE COUNCIL NO 676 ($600,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Healing the Culture does
Mission
Healing the Culture is dedicated to inspiring a deep, authentic, and lasting commitment to pro-life values. We engage audiences nationwide and internationally. Through innovative media -- including social platforms, videos, and animations -- we present thoughtful, philosophical education that empowers individuals to embrace and advocate for pro-life principles.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
See the description of Education Events for Line 4d.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Jessica's Jam (JJ) is a 9-episode television show for pre-teens that merges the world of live actors with animated characters to resolve moral dilemmas and build pro-life virtues. In 2025, we started post-production and completed animation for episodes 1, 2, and 3, and scripted and filmed episodes 4, 5, and 6.
$253,259 spent43% of program spendingPhilo and Sophie (P&S) is a 9-episode television show for young children that teaches life-affirming values and virtues. We redesigned the website to streamline the public's free access to program videos and resources and remastered the entire series. In 2025, we acquired 8,457 new toolkit subscribers, for a total of 19,457. Most subscribers are teachers or catechists. In addition, P&S videos had 7,989 views on YouTube and 18,852 views on Formed.org in 2025, with 169,905 total lifetime views.
$161,562 spent27% of program spendingRespect Life University (RLU), also called "Healing the Culture Productions," is our YouTube channel that teaches pro-life ethics and features over 150 videos for all age groups. In 2025, we filmed, animated, and produced 12 episodes of "Truth in 90 Seconds" achieving 1,440,539 views of combined RLU videos on YouTube, nearly doubling the lifetime view count to 2,685,490. We launched a new podcast series on current issues, engaged with thousands of YouTube comments, and increased our Facebook engagement by 3000%.
$74,694 spent13% of program spendingLife Principles Academy (LPA) is an intensive training event for college students that equips them with logic and reason to evangelize their pro-choice peers. In 2025, we trained a new faculty member, conducted four 4.5-hour training courses on college and university campuses across the US, graduated 44 students (bringing our program alumni headcount to 942 since inception), and launched a digital LPA course on YouTube. We trained 12 high school teachers and 10 campus ministers through our LPA Express program, bringing the total teachers trained to 757 since 2020. We conducted three other live presentations in 2025 reaching 270 people.
$54,508 spent9% of program spendingPrinciples and Choices (P&C) is a text-based high school curriculum that teaches logic, ethics, justice, and human dignity in classrooms, homeschools, and parishes. In 2025, we launched 12 supplemental videos and educated 5,913 high school students, adding new schools in California, Kentucky, South Dakota, and Virginia. An estimated 330,278 students have learned P&C content since program inception in 2012.
$40,704 spent$15,007 earned by the program7% of program spendingEducation Events: In October 2025, Healing the Culture (HTC) hosted two educational events -- a book signing and speaking event featuring its Chairman, Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ., attended by 225 people, and a movie-theater showing of the Philo and Sophie series for children and their families.
$5,470 spent1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $590,197.
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 $1.4M to $1.8M (+33%).
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.
98% of HEALING THE CULTURE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Robert Spitzer SJ
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $43k → $161k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 HEALING THE CULTURE’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
HEALING THE CULTURE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 HEALING THE CULTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 33% · 2019 54% · 2020 66% · 2021 80% · 2022 39% · 2023 31% — 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
60% of HEALING THE CULTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
HEALING THE CULTURE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $491k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
HEALING THE CULTURE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HEALING THE CULTURE
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEALING THE CULTURE: 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 HEALING THE CULTURE?
- HEALING THE CULTURE (South Dakota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,403,641 to it, the largest being KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SEATTLE COUNCIL NO 676 ($600,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEALING THE CULTURE have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,403,641 in grants to HEALING THE CULTURE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEALING THE CULTURE?
- KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SEATTLE COUNCIL NO 676 is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEALING THE CULTURE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 17 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