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Heidelberg Reformation Association

Heidelberg Reformation Association (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$237k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$265k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Heidelberg Reformation Association does

Mission

The purpose of the Heidelberg Reformation Association is to promote Reformed theology, piety, and practice as summarized in the Heidelberg Catechism, and related ecclesiastical confessions, including the Belgic Confession, the Canons of Dort, and the Westminster Standards.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Heidelcast podcast has released over 1,000 episodes that cover the breadth and depth of Reformed theology, piety, and practice. The Heidelblog blog exists to explain and encourage a return to the historic understanding of the Scripture as confessed by the Reformed Churches.

    $159,242 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $159,242.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($125k) Expenses 100 ($72k) Net assets 100 ($53k)2023 Revenue 129 ($161k) Expenses 105 ($76k) Net assets 261 ($139k)2024 Revenue 189 ($237k) Expenses 153 ($110k) Net assets 499 ($265k)
202220232024
Revenue (189)Expenses (153)Net assets (499)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 2023 to 2024, from $139k to $265k (+91%).

$53k
$139k
$265k
202220232024
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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of Heidelberg Reformation Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$53k
’22
$86k
’23
$126k
’24
29
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.

Board chair

Daniel Borvan

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Heidelberg Reformation Association’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Heidelberg Reformation Association's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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

Heidelberg Reformation Association runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin53% · top quartile
Months of reserve28.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)37% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion 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

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Heidelberg Reformation Association: 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 Heidelberg Reformation Association?
Heidelberg Reformation Association (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Heidelberg Reformation Association have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to Heidelberg Reformation Association.
Who is the largest funder of Heidelberg Reformation Association?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Heidelberg Reformation Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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