New York · Nonprofit
JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION
JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 141 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,449,725 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,091,698). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 141
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What Joyful Heart Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to transform society's response to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse, support survivors' healing, and end this violence forever.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In 2024, the foundation created the heal the healers fund grant program. The program provides support to professionals working directly with survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse who are grappling with the effects of secondary trauma.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
In 2024, joyful heart launched the image-based abuse policy initiative that seeks to use legislative tools, awareness campaigns and advocacy to establish a framework for addressing online exploitation and supporting those affected. The initiative operates on the fundamental principle that everyone deserves autonomy over their body and image as one of the leading organizations on policy reform against image-based abuse (iba), joyful heart convened regular meetings with two stakeholder groups one for federal policy and one for state to share information and work collectively to develop policies protecting survivors. In addition, staff monitored relevant policy progress and distributed legislative updates to advocates in the field. In 2024, 44 iba bills passed in 30 states. In addition to the state-level bills, joyful heart advocated for multiple bills at the federal level, including the shield act, the defiance act, the take it down act, and the preventing deepfakes of intimate images act.in addition, as part of our flagship policy program, the end the backlog campaign, joyful heart helped pass nine bills related to rape kit reform in eight states. Most notably, new jersey enacted a…
$865,974 spent60% of program spendingIn 2024, the Joyful Heart Foundation reimagined the heal the healers program. Now the heal the healers fund grant program provides support to professionals working directly with survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse who are grappling with the effects of secondary trauma. The grant selection process included the experts from joyful heart's national council of leadership and innovation who assisted in reviewing applications. In its inaugural year of grantmaking, joyful heart distributed 28 grants that provided frontline staff working with survivors of abuse with resources aimed at addressing their secondary trauma such as: equine therapy, team building exercises, workplace improvements, and other supportive practices and equipment.
$325,858 spentof which $130,594 as grants22% of program spendingIn 2024, joyful heart launched and revised awareness and community building programs including the joyful heart virtual book club, the national council on leadership and innovation, and the joyful heart committees. Through these programs, joyful heart offered opportunities for the community to come together in conversations that channel hope and a drive for change into action and transformation. Staff organized and facilitated three virtual book clubs, three national council on leadership and innovation meetings including one in person and 12 committee meetings including one in-person event at the san francisco bay committee.
$258,876 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,450,708.
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.
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 $5.4M to $8.2M (+51%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Robyn Mazur
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 31 funders to 30 funders, grant income fell $893k → $893k.
27 of 141 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 141 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
JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
66% 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 JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 36% · 2019 36% · 2020 20% · 2021 42% · 2022 28% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“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
14% of JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.
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
53% of JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION'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. Of the $3.0M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 30 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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.
Against its field
JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: 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 JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION?
- JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 141 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,449,725 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,091,698). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 141 organizations giving $6,449,725 in grants to JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,091,698 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 141 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