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HEARTSMILES INC

HEARTSMILES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,803,381 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC ($295,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.9M
Revenue FY2024
19
Funders on record
$1.8M
Grants received
$199k
Net assets
14/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 72%

Against its field

HEARTSMILES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,925 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)79% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,925 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($103k) Expenses 100 ($83k) Net assets 100 ($21k)2020 Revenue 91 ($94k) Expenses 112 ($93k) Net assets 210 ($43k)2021 Revenue 576 ($593k) Expenses 758 ($626k) Net assets 703 ($146k)2022 Revenue 873 ($899k) Expenses 1028 ($850k) Net assets 960 ($199k)2023 Revenue 1370 ($1.4M) Expenses 1619 ($1.3M) Net assets 1353 ($280k)2024 Revenue 1833 ($1.9M) Expenses 2382 ($2.0M) Net assets 958 ($199k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (1833)Expenses (2382)Net assets (958)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 18% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

69% of HEARTSMILES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,026 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
19
$1k
20
$34k
21
$48k
22
$72k
23
$82k
24
1.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $10k → $607k.

3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)7% 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 HEARTSMILES 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

HEARTSMILES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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

60% 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 HEARTSMILES INC.

16%
largest funder
45%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 27% · 2022 27% · 2023 32%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 HEARTSMILES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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

80% of HEARTSMILES INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

NY
MD
DC
TX

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

18
20
21
22
23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like HEARTSMILES INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

58%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEARTSMILES 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 HEARTSMILES INC?
HEARTSMILES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,803,381 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC ($295,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HEARTSMILES INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,803,381 in grants to HEARTSMILES INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HEARTSMILES INC?
BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $295,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HEARTSMILES 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing