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Heart Touch Project

Heart Touch Project (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $317,894 to it, the largest being THE FRED AND JUNE MACMURRAY FOUNDATION ($160,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$71k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$318k
Net assets
$96k
5/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Heart Touch Project does

Mission

The Heart Touch Project is a non-profit educational and training organization that brings compassionate, therapeutic touch to medically fragile and terminally ill infants, children and adults, thereby improving life for them, their families and their caregivers. We provide education on the benefits of therapeutic touch and offer specialized training to massage therapists and health care practitioners and students, connecting them to hospital and hospice settings.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Training of volunteer therapists who deliver service to hospitalized children, frail and elderly persons, and people with AIDS. Five volunteers were placed at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital. Four volunteers were placed at our partnered children's Hospice, Providence TrinityCare. For adult hospice, 22 volunteers were placed in 2017. These volunteers were placed at VITAS Hospice, Skirball, Roze Room, Compassus and Trinity Hospice (for adults).

    $40,650 spent$147,366 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. The goal of The Heart Touch Project International Outreach Program is to serve orphaned infants, children and young adults infected with HIV in Cambodia, providing them with compassionate, therapeutic touch that they often lack. The Heart Touch Project has also introduced the Heart Touch approach to local hospital staff in Thailand, India and Cambodia, encouraging them to continue the therapeutic and empathetic touch that our volunteers have implemented for comfort and pain management.

    $2,025 earned by the program

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,650.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($246k) Expenses 100 ($198k) Net assets 100 ($108k)2018 Revenue 100 ($246k) Expenses 130 ($258k) Net assets 89 ($97k)2019 Revenue 92 ($226k) Expenses 129 ($254k) Net assets 63 ($68k)2020 Revenue 35 ($87k) Expenses 69 ($137k) Net assets 16 ($17k)2021 Revenue 58 ($143k) Expenses 54 ($107k) Net assets 51 ($55k)2022 Revenue 45 ($110k) Expenses 48 ($95k) Net assets 64 ($69k)2023 Revenue 64 ($158k) Expenses 37 ($72k) Net assets 142 ($155k)2024 Revenue 29 ($71k) Expenses 53 ($104k) Net assets 88 ($96k)
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Revenue (29)Expenses (53)Net assets (88)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $73k to $202k (+176%).

$111k
$100k
$77k
$41k
$83k
$73k
$202k
$146k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

56% of Heart Touch Project’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’17
−$12k
’18
−$29k
’19
−$51k
’20
$36k
’21
$14k
’22
$86k
’23
−$33k
’24
16
months of
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.

Board chair

Mario Milch

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed88444444
Joined·+2+2+0+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·2600110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $65k → $55k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Touch Project’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 Touch Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

28% 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 Touch Project.

50%
largest funder
80%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 80% · 2019 63% · 2020 50% · 2021 55% · 2022 55% · 2023 45% — 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

33% of Heart Touch Project's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

92% of Heart Touch Project's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
OR
CA
CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Heart Touch Project is better cushioned than half of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−47% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve16.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−16% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like Heart Touch Project

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.

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Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

48% of spending goes to programs.

Program 48%Management 52%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
200%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Heart Touch Project?
Heart Touch Project (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $317,894 to it, the largest being THE FRED AND JUNE MACMURRAY FOUNDATION ($160,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Heart Touch Project have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $317,894 in grants to Heart Touch Project, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Heart Touch Project?
THE FRED AND JUNE MACMURRAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Heart Touch Project find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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