Maryland · Nonprofit
Heart Failure Society of America Inc
Heart Failure Society of America Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,696 to it, the largest being AMYLOIDOSIS RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC ($75,640). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $114k
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Heart Failure Society of America Inc does
Mission
Provide a platform to improve and expand heart failure care through collaboration, education, innovation, research and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Annual Scientific Meeting:Professionals gather annually to present and discuss cutting edge research, gain advanced education, and discuss new treatments. The 2024 Annual Scientific meeting was cancelled due to Hurricane Helene. Prior to cancellation, the meeting was planned to feature three plenary sessions, 49 sessions, five kick off sessions, four how-to sessions, one pre-meeting workshop, four Professionals in Training talks, six Research Hub talks, six roundtable sessions, four JCF sessions, 11 satellite programs, six forums, eight industry expert theaters, and over 500 abstracts and 2,371 attendees registered.
$2,229,751 spent45% of program spendingEducation and Programs: Programs aimed at education for the entire heart failure team, including cardiologists, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, etc., Initiatives include the Heart Failure Seminars, AHFTC Board Certification Review Course, CardioBites, and Heart Failure Certification (HF-Cert) Bootcamp.Seminars In 2024, the HFSA Heart Failure Seminar series highlighted a wide spectrum of heart failure topics, addressing educational gaps within the heart failure provider community and aligning with HFSAs 2024 scientific statements. Topics included iron deficiency, GDMT, advanced heart failure, myocarditis, cognitive impairment, and HFSA HF Stats. These seminars drew a multidisciplinary audience of physicians (MD/DO), nurse practitioners and registered nurses (APRN/NP/RN), pharmacists (PharmD/RPh), physician assistants (PA-C), and other healthcare professionals, with an average registration of approximately 160 participants per session. Overall, attendees consistently praised the expert speakers, engaging presentations, and the sessions practical applicability to patient care, noting that the content was valuable, relevant, and well organized. AHFTC Board Certification…
$1,046,869 spent21% of program spendingHeart Failure Research Network (HFRN):In 2024, the Heart Failure Research Network (HFRN) expanded participation to over 150 institutions nationwide, engaging academic centers, health systems, and community practices in active heart failure clinical research. HFRN facilitated collaborations between HFSA member researchers and multiple public and private sector sponsors, resulting in increased enrollment in ongoing heart failure clinical trials and broader geographic representation of study participants.In 2024, HFSA published four scientific statements to advance evidence-based care in heart failure:Integration of Palliative Care into Heart Failure Care: Consensus-Based Recommendations from the Heart Failure Society of America (November 2024)Cardio-Oncology and Heart Failure: A Scientific Statement from the Heart Failure Society of America (October 2024) accompanied by two supplemental articles:Cardio-Oncology and Heart Failure: AL Amyloidosis for the Heart Failure ClinicianHeart Failure in Patients with Cancer A Patients PerspectiveHFSA Scientific Statement: Update on Device-Based Therapies in Heart Failure (September 2024)Cognitive Impairment in Heart Failure: A Heart Failure…
$1,027,659 spent$1,936,513 earned by the program21% of program spendingThe Journal of Cardiac Failure (JCF):The Journal of Cardiac Failure (JCF) Family of Journals is the preeminent source for high-quality, innovative science in the field of heart failure and its intersections with diverse disciplines and specialties within the cardiovascular community. As the official journals of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA), both JCF and JCF-Intersections are dedicated to advancing knowledge, promoting collaboration, and fostering inclusivity.In addition to publishing the highest quality of scientific papers, JCF also conducts a year-long peer reviewer mentorship program and,in partnership with the Association of Black Cardiologists, a writing fellowship program. It's JCF Engage weekly newsletter reaches almost 10,000 recipients globally, while its active social media presence often gains impressions in the hundreds of thousands.In 2024, HFSA and JCF added a new journal to the family-JCF-Intersections. This new journal further builds upon the reach of heart failure science that is occurring at the intersections of cardiovascular care. The new journal chose its first Editor-in-Chief at the end of 2024, with the journal starting to accept submissions…
$673,755 spent$526,684 earned by the program14% of program spendingPractice and Patient Programs:Heart Failure Patient & Caregiver Webinar SeriesHFSA Heart Failure Patient and Caregiver Day was converted into a webinar series, HFSA Patient & Caregiver Webinar Series, enabling a broader reach to more patients and caregivers across the country. In 2024, the series consisted of three webinars, each drawing between 150200 registrants.The goal of the Patient & Caregiver Webinar Series is to provide easy-to-understand, engaging education on all aspects of heart failure, empower patients and caregivers to actively engage in conversations about treatment and management with their healthcare providers, and encourage the use of available resources. The following webinars were held in 2024 as part of the HFSA Heart Failure Patient and Caregiver Series and collectively garnered a total of 451 registrations:Cardiac Amyloidosis: The Heart of the Matter HCM: A Change of Heart Lifestyle and Medication Management: Successfully Navigating the Holidays with Heart Failure The HFSA Heart Failure Patient & Caregiver Webinar Series educational sessions are archived on the HFSA website and YouTube, where patients, caregivers, and family members can access them on demand…
HFSA Heart Failure Awareness 365 Initiative:In 2024, the Heart Failure Research Network (HFRN) expanded participation to over 150 institutions nationwide, engaging academic centers, health systems, and community practices in active heart failure clinical research. HFRN facilitated collaborations between HFSA member researchers and multiple public and private sector sponsors, resulting in increased enrollment in ongoing heart failure clinical trials and broader geographic representation of study participants.In 2024, HFSA published four scientific statements to advance evidence-based care in heart failure:Integration of Palliative Care into Heart Failure Care: Consensus-Based Recommendations from the Heart Failure Society of America (November 2024)Cardio-Oncology and Heart Failure: A Scientific Statement from the Heart Failure Society of America (October 2024) accompanied by two supplemental articles:oCardio-Oncology and Heart Failure: AL Amyloidosis for the Heart Failure ClinicianoHeart Failure in Patients with Cancer A Patients PerspectiveHFSA Scientific Statement: Update on Device-Based Therapies in Heart Failure (September 2024)Cognitive Impairment in Heart Failure: A Heart…
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,978,034.
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 2023 to 2024, from $9.5M to $11M (+13%).
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.
32% of Heart Failure Society of America Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
John Barnes
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $1k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Heart Failure Society of America 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
Heart Failure Society of America Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 Heart Failure Society of America Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% — 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
Heart Failure Society of America Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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
Heart Failure Society of America Inc is better cushioned than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Heart Failure Society of America 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Heart Failure Society of America 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 Heart Failure Society of America Inc?
- Heart Failure Society of America Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,696 to it, the largest being AMYLOIDOSIS RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC ($75,640). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Heart Failure Society of America Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $113,696 in grants to Heart Failure Society of America Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Heart Failure Society of America Inc?
- AMYLOIDOSIS RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,640 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Heart Failure Society of America Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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