California · Nonprofit
SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION
SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,500 to it, the largest being TODD I SCHIFFMAN FOUNDATION ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $144k
- Net assets
- $175k
What Save a Heart Foundation does
Mission
Save A Heart Foundation SAHF, established in 1980, since then has supported over forty-five gifted Israeli cardiologists mostly trained at CSMC and recently at USC. The SAHF fellows have been extremely industrious and productive researchers and have returned to Israel to assume leadership positions in their respective fields. Save A Heart Foundation has joined forces with both the California Chapter of the American College of Cardiology and the Israel Heart Society. The current goal is to expand research opportunities for Israeli fellows to many prestigious academic cardiology programs in California, including Cedars-Sinai, Stanford University, University of Southern California, and various campuses of the University of California.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Research in early prevention, detection and cure of heart disease.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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 2018 to 2019, from $103k to $55k (−47%).
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.
100% of SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sarit Finkelstein-Boim
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $50k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION’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
SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 47% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 60% · 2022 90% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
33% of SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SAVE A 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAVE A 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 SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION?
- SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,500 to it, the largest being TODD I SCHIFFMAN FOUNDATION ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $143,500 in grants to SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION?
- TODD I SCHIFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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