Maryland · Nonprofit
THROUGH THE HEART
THROUGH THE HEART (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,103 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($2,078). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $7k
What Through the Heart does
Mission
To educate and support anyone who is experiencing a pregnancy loss either directly or indirectly
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Through the Heart's current activity focuses heavily on its Comfort Kit program. Kits are provided free of charge to individuals or couples who have recently suffered a pregnancy loss and are delivered directly or via USPS Priority Mail. Each kit comes full of pampering and distracting items including personal care items, journal and pen, candy, tea, and tissues, an angel wind chime, and more. Information about the organization and a handwritten note are also included to ensure each recipient understands they are not alone. The program began in November 2013 and to date, more than 4,000 kits have been distributed to all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Approximately 400 individuals/couples are served each year through this program.
$2,348 spent56% of program spendingThe Wandering Angel Project is a program offered by Through the Heart to honor all of the babies lost during pregnancy or shortly after birth as well as any other loved ones gone too soon. The goal is to spread positivity in their memory through an angel that brings love, strength, peace, and protection. Angels can be kept by the person who finds it or passed on to someone else. The WAP was launched on June 24, 2023 and so far, more than 4,000 angels have been shared.
$1,559 spent37% of program spendingWe have limited quantities of the book Dear Star Baby by Malcolm Newsome available as an additional resource. This book is written from the point of view of a young child to his unborn sibling and shares how he processes the grief he and his family experience after a miscarriage. It is an excellent resource for families who have a child (or children) at home who are also going through the loss.
$252 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,159.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3k to $15k (+404%).
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.
41% of THROUGH THE HEART’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Karen Kelly
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25 → $427.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 THROUGH THE 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
THROUGH THE HEART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 THROUGH THE HEART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
99% of THROUGH THE HEART'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 $25 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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
THROUGH THE HEART's revenue fell 31% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THROUGH THE HEART
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THROUGH THE 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 THROUGH THE HEART?
- THROUGH THE HEART (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,103 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($2,078). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THROUGH THE HEART have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,103 in grants to THROUGH THE HEART, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THROUGH THE HEART?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,078 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THROUGH THE HEART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2 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