Florida · Nonprofit
OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC
OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC (Florida) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $821,429 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($241,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $734k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $821k
- Net assets
- $180k
What Open Hearts for Orphans Inc does
Mission
To provide for the needs of orphans worldwide through medical intervention, financial assistance for adoptive families, and providing the most basic necessities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Meeting Basic Needs: -OHFO helped fund a DCF Playroom and Resource Room in Broward County, Florida, creating a safe and comforting transition space for children moving out of crisis situations. -We provided 7 fully furnished homes for widows and orphans in Ugandaeach with solar power, water tanks, latrines, and kitchens positively impacting 35 children and bringing our total homes built to 45. -OHFO funded the release of 17 children from orphanages or prison settings in Uganda. -We financed foster care placements for 30 vulnerable children in Uganda. -OHFO made tuition assistance possible for 80 children in Uganda. -OHFO provided 35 specialized clean-water filters to families in Uganda, along with hands-on training. -We supported 70 vulnerable children in South Florida and Arizona through partner organizations. -OHFO provided graduation gift cards to 75 children in local foster care completing middle school, high school, and college.
$385,598 spentof which $355,911 as grants54% of program spendingAdoption Assistance & Advocacy: -We funded 26 Say Yes adoption grants in 2025. -33 more children came home in 2025 with the help of our grant bringing our total to over 160 families. -Our grants will impact children with multiple special needs from 8 countries - Bulgaria, Colombia, India, Liberia, Poland, Taiwan, Uganda, and USA. -We continued our role as an official Family-Match FRO (Family Recruitment Organization) in Palm Beach County and beyond to connect interested families with adoptable children in our foster system. -We participated in the No More Orphans experience, attracting many open hearts to the plight of vulnerable children and provided resources through our ARISE program. Our ARISE meetings and consultations are available to the local South Florida community, and our hope is that the mission will spread as we strive to bring authentic voices into the conversation.
$186,652 spentof which $117,508 as grants26% of program spendingMedical Intervention for Orphans: -We launched our Hearts of Hope cardiac program in partnership with Upasuaji International creating an unprecedented pathway for in-country care and provided cardiac interventions for six vulnerable children in Uganda. -We funded a hypospadias repair for an orphan. -We funded critical care for Josiah in Uganda, a little boy who was near death. -With our Uganda partners, who saw a continued surge of abandoned and malnourished babies, we provided life-saving baby formula and supplements for 25 babies through our Nurtured Hearts program. -Ann Bartlinski, our Director of Orphan Care and Medical programs traveled to Uganda and carried essential supplies in her luggage, including tins of infant formula. Ann was able to follow up on cases from previous years.
$139,983 spentof which $118,748 as grants20% of program spendingMeeting Basic Needs, continued - We provided toys for 105 children in Ugandamany receiving a toy for the very first time.
Adoption Assistance & Advocacy, continued - We continued our partnership with Childrens Home Society (CHS) in Palm Beach County, providing recruitment events for adoptable children in the foster system, where prospective families could attend and participate. We celebrated local adoptions again by providing Welcome Home gift cards to 14 children adopted from foster care into 11 families on National Adoption Day in November.
Medical Intervention for Orphans, continued - We embarked on our largest scale project to date - refurbishing the pediatric ward of St. Joseph Kitovu Hospital in Masaka, Uganda. By years end, the construction phase was 100% funded and 75% complete. This renovation will change the trajectory of care for vulnerable children in an impoverished rural area.
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $712,233.
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 $278k to $187k (−33%).
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.
99% of OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Lisa Murphy
CEO
Board chair
Carrie Socha
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $152k.
11 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC’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
OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 89% · 2022 49% · 2023 52% — 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
40% of OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 54% 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
51% of OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC'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 $405k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $416k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC: 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 OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC?
- OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC (Florida) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $821,429 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($241,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $821,429 in grants to OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $241,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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