Georgia · Nonprofit
HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC
HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,362,475 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($171,550). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $890k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Heartbound Ministries Inc does
Mission
Heartbound ministries breaks generational cycles of crime and incarceration by providing purposeful programming to the prison community so that incarcerated people return to their families and communities as transformed individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Prison outreach program/chaplaincy: supports and partners with prison chaplains to provide spiritual support, cognitive classes, literacy services, life skills training, parenting training, and other rehabilitative programs for justice-involved individuals. We serve approximately 55,000 adult and juvenile offenders in adult and juvenile correctional facilities throughout the southeast.
$161,510 spent33% of program spendingCollege seminary program: heartbound established and funds the first and only women's prison seminary in georgia. The nathan and sandra deal extension of truett mcconnell university is housed at whitworth facility in hartwell, ga.
$83,195 spent17% of program spendingProject art (art to rehabilitate and teach): through weekly art lessons, project art connects incarcerated learners with dedicated instructors and mentors who provide guidance, address underlying issues related to incarceration, and support successful reintegration. Project art fosters mentorship and rehabilitation through positive relationships, supports skill development through continuum of learning and promotes peronal growth and career readiness through creative expression.
$65,801 spent14% of program spendingAll other programs including but not limited to the following:counseling center: weekly professional trauma counseling services are provided at no charge to female transitional center residents. Malachi dads/returning hearts which includes a weekly parenting training program and culminates in an annual returning hearts celebration to unite children with their incarcerated parent on the prison grounds for a day of fun.little readers - a personalized recorded reading program allowing children of incarcerated parents to see and hear their parent reading a book on dvd.christmas/indigent bags with hygiene and other products for incarcerated individuals in georgia.children's visitation center located at the metro womem's transitional center.
$176,427 spent36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $486,933.
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 2024 to 2025, from $804k to $1.1M (+43%).
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.
93% of HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Andrea Shelton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $78k → $168k.
11 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
61% 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 HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 22% · 2019 48% · 2020 20% · 2021 42% · 2022 23% · 2023 36% — 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
57% of HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
52% of HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $660k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HEARTBOUND 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEARTBOUND 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 HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC?
- HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,362,475 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($171,550). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,362,475 in grants to HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $171,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 34 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