Colorado · Nonprofit
Heart-J Center for Experiential Lear
Heart-J Center for Experiential Lear (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $758,630 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($440,277). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $802k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $759k
- Net assets
- $345k
What Heart-J Center for Experiential Lear does
Mission
Heart-J Center provides education programs for people of all ages with topics including science and nature history and archeology agriculture and conservation creative arts wellness and outdoor skills. HJC partners with schools from six school districts to provide outdoor education for kids in grades K-12; serves veterans healthcare workers teachers and others who serve our community; provides a Nature School enrichment program for homeschoool students in grades 3 to 8; and works with colleges across Colorado to provide hands-on experiences for college students.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2023 HJC served 475 veterans healthcare workers first responders teachers and other community members who work in service to others with programs that combine debriefing and processing workplace experiences recreations and take home tools Heart-J programs are fun rejuvenating and healing.
$166,996 spent42% of program spendingIn 2023 Heart-J Center offered 54 education programs serving 1,207 adults mostly form Northern Colorado. Programs included painting writing birding geology astronomy archeology and more.
$103,099 spent$26,471 earned by the program26% of program spendingIn 2023 Heart-J Center served 2,235 children aged 5 to 18 with programs exploring the outdoors with topics including science nature history horses leadership and communication skills.
$128,421 spent$65,886 earned by the program32% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $398,516.
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 2023 to 2024, from $326k to $698k (+114%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 12% · 2021 23% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of Heart-J Center for Experiential Lear’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $70k → $16k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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-J Center for Experiential Lear’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-J Center for Experiential Lear leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
98% 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-J Center for Experiential Lear.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 43% · 2020 50% · 2021 71% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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
43% of Heart-J Center for Experiential Lear's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
95% of Heart-J Center for Experiential Lear'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 $39k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $720k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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-J Center for Experiential Lear runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Heart-J Center for Experiential Lear
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sylvan Dale Legacy · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Heart-J Center for Experiential Lear: 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-J Center for Experiential Lear?
- Heart-J Center for Experiential Lear (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $758,630 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($440,277). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Heart-J Center for Experiential Lear have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $758,630 in grants to Heart-J Center for Experiential Lear, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Heart-J Center for Experiential Lear?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $440,277 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Heart-J Center for Experiential Lear find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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