Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC
THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,483,561 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($353,665). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What The Lionheart Foundation Inc does
Mission
The lionheart foundation, inc. Is dedicated to improving the lives of incarcerated adults and highly at-risk youth by creating and providing institutions, community programs and educational forums to train exceptional resources and training in social emotional literacy development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The houses of healing program is a powerful 13 session social and emotional learning (sel)curriculum created specifically for incarcerated individuals. The program is designed to promote rehabilitation, facilitate re-entry into society, and reduce violence inside facilities.
$397,833 spent$112,543 earned by the program60% of program spendingEq2 is an interactive training and support program for direct care staff working with youth at risk. It fills a critical gap in building trauma informed communities. The program enables staff to self-regulate, co-regulate with youth, and form healing relationships with each other and the youth they care for.
$145,871 spent$126,802 earned by the program22% of program spendingThe power source program is an evidence based program designed to empower at risk youth with the social and emotional skills necessary to forge paths of healthy development and disengagement from high risk and offending behaviors. The program helps youth avoid a lifelong involvement in the justice system. Power source parenting empowers youth to become exactly that. Power source parenting is an all innovative, trauma informed program designed to provide adolescents with the knowledge and skills they need to grow into strong adults, become effective parents, and raise healthy children.
$119,350 spent$171,992 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $663,054.
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 2020 to 2021, from $750k to $1.1M (+45%).
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: 2019 9% · 2021 12% · 2022 26% · 2023 38% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Marc Crespi
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $109k → $243k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION 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
THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
69% 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 THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 42% · 2019 49% · 2020 38% · 2021 24% · 2022 53% · 2023 35% — 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
71% of THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
69% of THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION 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 $458k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record — $15k federal, $10k state.
- Department of Justice$15k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$8k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$2k
- (FF) FACILITY OPERATIONAL EXPENSES$925
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE LIONHEART 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION 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 THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC?
- THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,483,561 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($353,665). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,483,561 in grants to THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $353,665 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 21 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