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HEARTS NEED ART

HEARTS NEED ART (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,980 to it, the largest being NANCY SMITH HURD FOUNDATION ($132,475). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$114k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$509k
Net assets
$0
5/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 88%
01What it does

What Hearts Need Art does

Mission

Hearts Need Art's mission is to create moments of joy, self-expression, and connection with those facing life-altering health challenges through arts engagement, advocacy, and innovation. Hearts Need Art programs positively impact the healthcare experience by reducing anxiety, depression, and feelings of isolation.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Art classes - provides visual arts experiences for patients and caregivers in the hospitals. Hearts Need Art provides art kits for newly diagnosed patients.

    $88,865 spent$19,144 earned by the program
    69% of program spending
  2. Artist development - Hearts Need Art promotes training for professional artists and musicians on how to safely work with patients and caregivers in a health care environment. In addtion to an orientation for new artists, the organization provides monthly workshops and ongoing training opportunities.

    $12,562 spent$2,706 earned by the program
    10% of program spending
  3. Music - Hearts Need Art provides music programs to patients and caregivers. Bedside music offers live performances of preferential music and provides music instructions for patients and caregivers in the hospital. Corridor concerts provides live performances in common area of the hospital for patients and caregivers.

    $28,029 spent$2,880 earned by the program
    22% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $129,456.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($43k) Net assets 100 ($47k)2019 Revenue 235 ($177k) Expenses 387 ($166k) Net assets 125 ($58k)2020 Revenue 236 ($178k) Expenses 369 ($158k) Net assets 168 ($79k)2021 Revenue 293 ($221k) Expenses 436 ($187k) Net assets 240 ($112k)2022 Revenue 562 ($423k) Expenses 547 ($234k) Net assets 643 ($301k)2023 Revenue 178 ($134k) Expenses 869 ($372k) Net assets 135 ($63k)2024 Revenue 151 ($114k) Expenses 412 ($177k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (151)Expenses (412)Net assets (0)

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 $305k to $68k (−78%).

$47k
$61k
$94k
$116k
$305k
$68k
$0
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
’18
$12k
’19
$20k
’20
$34k
’21
$189k
’22
−$238k
’23
−$63k
’24
2.2
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

Elizabeth Anderson

Interim executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

2021202220232024
Listed911118
Joined·+4+5+4
No longer listed·257
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $41k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 HEARTS NEED ART’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 NEED ART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

72% 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 NEED ART.

26%
largest funder
65%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 30% · 2022 36% · 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

40% of HEARTS NEED ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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

98% of HEARTS NEED ART's grant income comes from Texas funders.

CT
TN
TX

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k 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

Organizations like HEARTS NEED ART

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 20%Fundraising 6%

Governance

6
board members
100%
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.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEARTS NEED ART: 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 NEED ART?
HEARTS NEED ART (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,980 to it, the largest being NANCY SMITH HURD FOUNDATION ($132,475). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HEARTS NEED ART have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $508,980 in grants to HEARTS NEED ART, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HEARTS NEED ART?
NANCY SMITH HURD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $132,475 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HEARTS NEED ART find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 12 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