Maryland · Nonprofit
HEARTLY HOUSE INC
HEARTLY HOUSE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,023,841 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC ($691,078). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Heartly House Inc does
Mission
The mission of heartly house is to end domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and child abuse, and to provide victims with safety, shelter, and supportive services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency shelter - residential shelter services are provided through the 29-bed emergency shelter. Available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, shelter is staffed by professionals trained in crisis intervention and domestic violence. In fy 2025, 113 adults and 81 children with a total of 5,725 bed nights of safety, along with meals, case management, health care services, and basic daily living needs were served.
$1,054,662 spent24% of program spendingCrisis services provides 24-hour client services including crisis response, lethality assessment, medical accompaniment for sexual assault and domestic violence forensic exams and initial access to all heartly house programs. Staff provides victims with crisis intervention appointments to assess comprehensive needs, safety planning, and case management coordination throughout heartly house's continuum of care. Staff responded to 6,918 calls for assistance in fy25. 815 lethality screenings completed identified 626 victims at greatest risk of being killed by a partner. During fy25, advocates provided 38 sexual assault forensic exam (safe) accompaniments at frederick health hospital, during which they offered support, advocacy, and immediate crisis intervention services.
$803,147 spent18% of program spendingCounseling services are provided by licensed clinicians in both individual and group settings to primary and secondary survivors of sexual assualt, abuse, child abuse, intimate partner violence, and human trafficking. Sessions are available to both adults and children, are confidential, and are provided free of charge. Counseling services include an abuse intervention program (aip), a 26-week program for men who have been and/or are abusive to their partners. The program is designed to teach participants how to change their behavior through education and skill building. In fy25, counseling services (excluding aip) served 194 adults and 36 children. In fy25, 41 clients were served under the aip program.
$818,791 spent19% of program spendingDirect legal services provide victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse with prepresentation and advocacy through the legal system. Legal services provided included representation at protective/peace order hearings, divorce, and custody hearings, and court accompaniment to low-income victims. In fy25, heartly house provided legal services to 497 clients.community engagement and prevention and training for survivors of abuse, their loved ones, and their communities on the awareness and prevention of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, human trafficking, and child abuse. In fy25, community engagement and prevention provided training to 705 community members.community based services (cbs) is a new program that was established in fye 6/30/2022. Satellite offices in towns across frederick county have been and continue to be established to bring critical services closer to those in need. These confidential, accessible, full-service offices are eliminating some of the barrieers that stand in the way of getting help with legal assistance, abuse intervention or human trafficking prevention. In fy25, the cbs program provided services to 526 clients.
$1,688,202 spent39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,364,802.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.8M to $2.5M (+39%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 60% · 2018 69% · 2019 72% · 2020 70% · 2021 53% · 2022 73% · 2023 69% · 2024 78% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of HEARTLY HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Nicola Thrash
Executive director
Board chair
Doug Tinder
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $165k → $465k.
12 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 HEARTLY HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
HEARTLY HOUSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
64% 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 HEARTLY HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 36% · 2019 44% · 2020 20% · 2021 30% · 2022 27% · 2023 23% — 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
58% of HEARTLY HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
95% of HEARTLY HOUSE INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $849k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
HEARTLY HOUSE INC has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HEARTLY HOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.4M on record — $1.1M federal, $11.2M state.
- Department of Justice$928k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$211k
- Grant$11.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HEARTLY HOUSE 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEARTLY HOUSE 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 HEARTLY HOUSE INC?
- HEARTLY HOUSE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,023,841 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC ($691,078). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEARTLY HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $3,023,841 in grants to HEARTLY HOUSE INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEARTLY HOUSE INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $691,078 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEARTLY HOUSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 42 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing