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Hearts United Associaiton

Hearts United Associaiton (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,718 to it, the largest being W Darrell Kilton Foundation ($159,747). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$337k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$161k
Net assets
$716k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Hearts United Associaiton does

Mission

Charitable assistance to those in need

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide assistance and education to people in need

    $189,709 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $189,709.

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 ($220k) Expenses 100 ($158k) Net assets 100 ($355k)2018 Revenue 139 ($306k) Expenses 109 ($173k) Net assets 137 ($488k)2019 Revenue 149 ($328k) Expenses 130 ($205k) Net assets 172 ($611k)2020 Revenue 129 ($285k) Expenses 150 ($238k) Net assets 185 ($659k)2022 Revenue 165 ($363k) Expenses 214 ($339k) Net assets 210 ($746k)2023 Revenue 160 ($352k) Expenses 220 ($349k) Net assets 211 ($749k)2024 Revenue 153 ($337k) Expenses 234 ($371k) Net assets 201 ($716k)
2017201820192020202220232024
Revenue (153)Expenses (234)Net assets (201)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 2017 to 2018, from $418k to $592k (+42%).

$418k
$592k
$615k
$683k
$751k
$750k
$716k
2017201820192020202220232024
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
2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of Hearts United Associaiton’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$62k
’17
$133k
’18
$123k
’19
$48k
’20
$24k
’22
$3k
’23
−$34k
’24
11
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.

20172018201920202022
Listed1818181814
Joined·+0+0+2·
No longer listed·002·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $55k → $10k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
2
2
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 United Associaiton’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 United Associaiton leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Hearts United Associaiton's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $971 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Hearts United Associaiton is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

51% of spending goes to programs.

Program 51%Management 47%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
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 United Associaiton: 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 United Associaiton?
Hearts United Associaiton (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,718 to it, the largest being W Darrell Kilton Foundation ($159,747). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Hearts United Associaiton have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $160,718 in grants to Hearts United Associaiton, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Hearts United Associaiton?
W Darrell Kilton Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $159,747 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Hearts United Associaiton find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2 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