California · Nonprofit
Lion's Heart
Lion's Heart (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,717 to it, the largest being Kanoff Family Foundation co Jefferies & Company ($2,052). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $574k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Lion's Heart does
Mission
Lion's Hearts inspires teens to have a positive impact in their communities through leadership and participation in volunteering, providing needed resources for causes that ignite their passions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Coordinate community service opportunities between potential volunteers and those in need of services. Examples of community service provided by Lion's Heart volunteers include serving meals and performing at senior citizens' homes, helping at charity events (dinner dances, auctions, running events), beach and trail clean ups, coaching and reffing for sports, working at food banks, volunteering at homeless and youth shelters, clothing, shoe, food, book and hygiene product drives, and much more. Volunteers also help the disabled at sports and recreation camps. Examples of educational hours include helping teachers prepare their classrooms for the school year, shelving library books, campus beautification projects, building school play sets, campus gardens and other projects during non-classroom time. Volunteers also helped at animal shelters, virtual tutoring, note writing, community gardens, and school carnivals.
$397,325 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $397,325.
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 2024 to 2025, from $13k to $61k (+357%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 21% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Lion's Heart’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Cynthia M Williams
President/Executive Director
Board chair
Nelma Maddox
Chairperson/Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $75 → $2k.
From the IRS filings of Lion's Heart’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
Lion's Heart leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 45% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Lion's Heart's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Lion's Heart runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Lion's Heart
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lion's Heart: 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 Lion's Heart?
- Lion's Heart (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,717 to it, the largest being Kanoff Family Foundation co Jefferies & Company ($2,052). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lion's Heart have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $6,717 in grants to Lion's Heart, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lion's Heart?
- Kanoff Family Foundation co Jefferies & Company is the largest funder on record, with $2,052 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lion's Heart 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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