New York · Nonprofit
HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC
HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,391,311 to it, the largest being FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ($919,463). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $586k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $948k
What Hearts for the Homeless of Wny Inc does
Mission
The organizations purpose is to provide physical, emotional, and spiritual relief to the homeless,poor and distressed, and to share the gospel of jesus christ - supported by hearts foundation, inc.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organizations activities consist of providing food and clothing to poor, homeless, and destitute men, women, and children. The food and clothing are donated to the organization and distributed by volunteers at various outdoor or public local locations.
$378,838 spent$517,868 earned by the program58% of program spendingDuring the year ended december 31, 2024, the organization recorded $273,051 in support to its related entity, hearts foundation, inc. This amount represents a journal entry to reflect the transfer of property to the hearts foundation, inc., rather than a cash or check transaction. The entry was made to properly record the change in ownership between related entities and should not be interpreted as a monetary contribution.
$273,051 spent42% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $651,889.
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 2020 to 2021, from $832k to $1.1M (+36%).
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: 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Nicholas M Calandra
CEO and president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $169k.
7 of 17 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $305k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hearts Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY 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
HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 40% · 2021 58% · 2022 70% · 2023 85% — 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
50% of HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
100% of HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $269k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,843 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY 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 HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC?
- HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,391,311 to it, the largest being FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ($919,463). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,391,311 in grants to HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC?
- FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $919,463 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 17 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