Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Heart of A Nation
Heart of A Nation (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $557,899 to it, the largest being MAYBERG FOUNDATION INC ($99,999). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $558k
- Net assets
- $39k
What Heart of A Nation does
Programs
Developed and implemented mentorship program for public policy-oriented students on American college campuses.
$0 spentFacilitated delegation of emerging changemakers from the Middle East visiting counterparts in Washington, DC
Published original content and updated website to inform and educate thought leaders and activists in all three societies.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $89k to $40k (−55%).
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
Jonathan S Kessler
Founder/CEO
Board chair
Brian Jaffee
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $98k → $94k.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Nation’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 Nation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
46% 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 Nation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 26% · 2022 21% · 2023 53% — 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
Heart of A Nation draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $219k 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 of A Nation's revenue fell 70% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Heart of A Nation
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Heart of A Nation?
- Heart of A Nation (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $557,899 to it, the largest being MAYBERG FOUNDATION INC ($99,999). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Heart of A Nation have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $557,899 in grants to Heart of A Nation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Heart of A Nation?
- MAYBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $99,999 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Heart of A Nation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 18 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