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HEROES FOUNDATION INC

HEROES FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,452,643 to it, the largest being The Sundheim Family Foundation ($1,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$595k
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$1.7M
17/31 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Heroes Foundation Inc does

Mission

To provide meaningful support to cancer patients, education to promote cancer prevention and resources to advance reseach for a cure.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grant to community health, oncology patient assistance fund grant to sjp heroes cancer research fund via iu foundation grant to tjp associated pediatric research ash memorial scholarship fund via the iu foundation grant to the move project at the iuscc grant to iu health foundaion in support of completelife program for first mondays and art show grant to harper cancer research institute at notre dame tyler trent pediatric cancer resaerch center within the purdue institute for cancer researc

    $573,453 spentof which $257,504 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Team heroes is a cycling team competing at all levels and is used as a vehicle to raise awareness about the heroes foundation's commitment to the battle against cancer through promotion of living a healthy lifestyle and cancer prevention.

  3. Team joey supports pediatric cancer research projects within the indiana university school of medicine, as well as delivering lego toys to pediatric cancer patients.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $573,453.

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 ($475k) Expenses 100 ($279k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 142 ($676k) Expenses 220 ($616k) Net assets 99 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 86 ($409k) Expenses 123 ($345k) Net assets 116 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 90 ($430k) Expenses 122 ($341k) Net assets 131 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 114 ($544k) Expenses 145 ($405k) Net assets 166 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 130 ($618k) Expenses 184 ($515k) Net assets 157 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 182 ($864k) Expenses 470 ($1.3M) Net assets 141 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 125 ($595k) Expenses 220 ($613k) Net assets 148 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (125)Expenses (220)Net assets (148)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $1.9M (+24%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.7M
$1.8M
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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

8% of HEROES FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,932 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$196k
’17
$60k
’18
$64k
’19
$89k
’20
$139k
’21
$102k
’22
−$449k
’23
−$18k
’24
9.0
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.

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

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Listed1616212020212117
Joined·+0+8+0+0+5+7+1
No longer listed·0310475
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $31k → $72k.

11 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 HEROES FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 31 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

HEROES FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

69%
largest funder
77%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 29% · 2021 96% · 2022 35% · 2023 34% — 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

27% of HEROES FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

HEROES FOUNDATION INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 9 states in all.

IL
NY
IN
CA
UT
KS
DC
TX
FL

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

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’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $179k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

HEROES FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 13,769 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve9.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like HEROES FOUNDATION INC

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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds HEROES FOUNDATION INC?
HEROES FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,452,643 to it, the largest being The Sundheim Family Foundation ($1,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HEROES FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,452,643 in grants to HEROES FOUNDATION INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HEROES FOUNDATION INC?
The Sundheim Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HEROES FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 31 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing