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Heartlight Center Inc

Heartlight Center Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,775 to it, the largest being PHIL AND RUTH SPANO FOUNDATION ($75,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$683k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$170k
Net assets
$493k
7/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Heartlight Center Inc does

Mission

Provide meaningful, accessible grief support and education to those grieving and professional and volunteer caregivers working with those grieving.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. HeartLight Center offers programming and resources for anyone who has experienced a death loss through open grief support groups, curriculum based grief support groups, workshops, educational presentations and resources. In 2025 HeartLight hosted 495 Grief Support Groups, 83 workshops and 15 educational presentations to support grievers.

    $124,472 spent
    38% of program spending
  2. HeartLight Center offers programming, training, education and coordinated networking opportunities for Professional and volunteer caregivers. In 2025 HeartLight Center hosted industry expert speakers and authors to provide educational programming, accessible to anyone through HeartLight Centers website at no cost to learners and professionals. HeartLight hosted over 20 volunteer and facilitator trainings. In 2025, HeartLight offers internship placements for graduate level social workers, counselors and human service majors hosting more than 15 student interns. HeartLight coordinates networking opportunities for professionals working in end-of-life, death care and bereavement in order to reduce duplication of services and increase access to services for those served by professionals, hosting and coordinating over 15 events.

    $121,196 spent
    37% of program spending
  3. HeartLight Center offers grief support resources to anyone grieving, supporting someone grieving and professional and volunteer caregivers. Vetted, evidence based resources are developed and accessible on the HeartLight Center website and for purchase. Resources include, but are not limited to: printable PDF handouts on grief specific topics, brochures, curriculum based Facilitator Support Group Trainings and materials, book and media grief support recommendations etc. HeartLight Center produces two HeartLight Highlight magazine mailers on the topics of Tat the Intersection of Trauma and Grief and Grief and the Holidays. This resources is available online and was mailed to over 4000 individuals.

    $81,890 spent
    25% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $327,558.

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 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($55k) Net assets 100 ($138k)2021 Revenue 180 ($197k) Expenses 265 ($146k) Net assets 218 ($301k)2022 Revenue 259 ($282k) Expenses 467 ($257k) Net assets 237 ($327k)2023 Revenue 329 ($359k) Expenses 644 ($355k) Net assets 242 ($333k)2024 Revenue 446 ($487k) Expenses 718 ($396k) Net assets 306 ($422k)2025 Revenue 626 ($683k) Expenses 1109 ($611k) Net assets 358 ($493k)
201720212022202320242025
Revenue (626)Expenses (1109)Net assets (358)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 2023 to 2024, from $333k to $422k (+27%).

$150k
$303k
$327k
$333k
$422k
$493k
201720212022202320242025
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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

58% of Heartlight Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$54k
’17
$51k
’21
$25k
’22
$4k
’23
$91k
’24
$72k
’25
9.7
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.

Chief executive

Jennifer Flaum

Executive Director

Board chair

Jamie McConaty

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed1114141511
Joined·+4+0+2+1
No longer listed·1015
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $6k → $46k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 Heartlight Center Inc’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

Heartlight Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

50% 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 Heartlight Center Inc.

44%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 64% · 2021 61% · 2022 61% · 2023 54% — 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

75% of Heartlight Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

99% of Heartlight Center Inc's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

WI
CO

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Heartlight Center Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve9.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Heartlight Center 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 Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

54% of spending goes to programs.

Program 54%Management 14%Fundraising 33%

Governance

11
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

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Questions and answers

Who funds Heartlight Center Inc?
Heartlight Center Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,775 to it, the largest being PHIL AND RUTH SPANO FOUNDATION ($75,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Heartlight Center Inc have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $169,775 in grants to Heartlight Center Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Heartlight Center Inc?
PHIL AND RUTH SPANO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Heartlight Center Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 8 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