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HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION

HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $489,598 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($115,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$490k
Net assets
$659k
15/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Hero Healthcare Equipment Recycling Organization does

Mission

Recycling and redistribution of used healthcare items to individuals in need.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Collection and redistribution of usable healthcare materials to benefit local individuals in need via local programming and storefront operations (45% of activity).

    $743,020 spent
    75% of program spending
  2. Collection and redistribution of usable healthcare materials to benefit global individuals in need via medical missions (45% of activity).

    $205,170 spent
    21% of program spending
  3. Provision of environmental services via the collection and proper recycling of healthcare materials from healthcare organizations, long-term care organizations, and local individuals (10% of activity).

    $41,149 spent
    4% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $989,339.

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 ($767k) Expenses 100 ($718k) Net assets 100 ($207k)2018 Revenue 87 ($669k) Expenses 101 ($723k) Net assets 77 ($158k)2019 Revenue 94 ($723k) Expenses 102 ($731k) Net assets 74 ($152k)2020 Revenue 104 ($801k) Expenses 88 ($630k) Net assets 157 ($324k)2021 Revenue 129 ($992k) Expenses 118 ($848k) Net assets 225 ($465k)2022 Revenue 136 ($1.0M) Expenses 127 ($910k) Net assets 278 ($574k)2023 Revenue 151 ($1.2M) Expenses 144 ($1.0M) Net assets 340 ($702k)2024 Revenue 149 ($1.1M) Expenses 165 ($1.2M) Net assets 319 ($659k)
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Revenue (149)Expenses (165)Net assets (319)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 $807k to $1.4M (+68%).

$225k
$168k
$164k
$347k
$476k
$783k
$807k
$1.4M
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

81% of HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$49k
’17
−$54k
’18
−$8k
’19
$171k
’20
$144k
’21
$133k
’22
$128k
’23
−$42k
’24
3.1
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

Rachel Garcia

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed1415141614131210
Joined·+1+3+6+0+1+1+2
No longer listed·0442224
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $18k → $77k.

5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 23 funders by total. 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

HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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

57% 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 HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION.

23%
largest funder
52%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 63% · 2019 47% · 2020 36% · 2021 35% · 2022 41% · 2023 52% — 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

56% of HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 4 states in all.

ND
MN
SD
MO

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

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North Dakota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158k 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

Against its field

HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION

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In North Dakota

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 8%Fundraising 9%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION?
HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $489,598 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($115,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $489,598 in grants to HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION?
OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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