North Carolina · Nonprofit
Heart of a Lion
Heart of a Lion (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,652 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($10,959). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $75k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Heart of a Lion does
Mission
Foster based volunteer feline rescue. We specifically take in newly born or young kittens and nurse them back to health and provide access to vet care. We then locate families to adopt the kittesnonce well enough to leave the rescue. We also assist TNR partners and low income families with vet costs.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide vet care and nursing to hundreds of kittens
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $6k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 of a Lion’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 of a Lion leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 of a Lion.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 47% · 2021 73% · 2022 98% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
86% of Heart of a Lion'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 of a Lion runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,576 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,576 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like Heart of a Lion
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Heart of a Lion?
- Heart of a Lion (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,652 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($10,959). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Heart of a Lion have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $14,652 in grants to Heart of a Lion, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Heart of a Lion?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,959 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Heart of a Lion find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 4 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