Virginia · Nonprofit
HEART MINISTRIES INC
HEART MINISTRIES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,379,009 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($627,314). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $832k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $537k
What Heart Ministries Inc does
Mission
Heart ministries, inc. Facilitates the timely distribution of evangelical and humanitarian resources to a lost and hurting world. Our core values, embodied by the acronym heart, guide our mission to be: humanitarian, evangelical, altruistic, resourceful, and timely. We partner with ministries offering support in education, medical care, evangelism, and more. Through physical, financial, and spiritual assistance, we work to end the cycles of poverty, illiteracy, and human dignity abuse worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A u.s. Sponsor for ministry partners in multiple countries, our core values, embodied by the acronym heart, guide our mission to be: humanitarian, evangelical, altruistic, resourceful, and timely.
$903,385 spentof which $903,385 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $903,385.
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 2018 to 2019, from $46k to $354k (+674%).
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 HEART MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Melinda Norris
Executive director
Board chair
Christopher R Burgess
Chairman; treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $500 → $378k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $21k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Heart Ministries Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HEART MINISTRIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HEART MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 funders by total. 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 MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 70% · 2020 78% · 2021 29% · 2022 61% · 2023 79% — 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 HEART MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
84% of HEART MINISTRIES INC'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 $215k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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
HEART MINISTRIES INC is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HEART MINISTRIES 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEART MINISTRIES 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 MINISTRIES INC?
- HEART MINISTRIES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,379,009 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($627,314). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HEART MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,379,009 in grants to HEART MINISTRIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEART MINISTRIES INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $627,314 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEART MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 14 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