Virginia · Nonprofit
TOUCHING HEART
TOUCHING HEART (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $312,292 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($87,150). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $312k
- Net assets
- $325k
What Touching Heart does
Mission
Our mission is to teach children the joy of giving and to build the next generation of compassionate leaders. Through our after school programs, workshops, summer camps, and events, Touching Heart creates hands-on opportunities for children to actively experience the great joy that comes from helping others. Since 2010 our programs have impacted over 24,000 children. The end result is that our children have helped over 6,000 individuals over the years, and continue to do so.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kids On A Mission (KOAM) - Touching Heart coaches work with a leadership team of 3-5 children to select a cause, then plan and implement an event to raise funds to bring about positive change in the lives of children in need. Touching Heart partners with carefully selected local causes that benefit local children and international orphanages. Using a child-led, project-based learning curriculum developed by Touching Heart, these young leaders learn practical life and business skills including goal-setting, marketing, budgeting, public speaking and project management. They experience the joy of working as a team together to help others in need, and most of them can't wait to do it again! Children in our programs see the impact of their efforts through photographs, letters, conference calls and video. Touching Heart believes that children seeing the actual results of their giving actions is critical to inspiring children to continue to give. Examples of Kids on a Mission events include a fashion show, Minecraft tournament, basketball and soccer tournaments, a princess tea party and a art gallery sale. Since 2010, over 5,000 kids led or participated in Kids on a Mission events,…
$7,906 spent$2,612 earned by the program15% of program spendingSchool Programs - In Touching Heart's classes and clubs, participants take action to help others and learn about the impact they can have to make the world a better place. They complete hands-on service projects such as preparing food for homeless shelters and making fleece scarves and blankets for children in need. They also learn about issues such as clean water and hunger eradication, and participate in leadership development activities and compassion and empathy exercises. Elementary school classes consist of eight one-hour sessions, while middle school and high school programs are yearlong clubs. Since 2015 Touching Heart classes and clubs were held in over 26 schools in Fairfax and Loudoun County in VA, Montgomery County in MD and Brooklyn in NY. With over 700 children attending the programs, they in turn helped over 5,500 children in need. Touching Heart classes and clubs have grown quickly, mostly through word-of-mouth, and received rave reviews from parents and participants.
$1,008 spent$1,000 earned by the program2% of program spendingTouching Heart has had long-standing relationships with local organizations that help children in need including the Arlington, Fairfax and Loudon County Foster Care Programs, Fairfax County Family Services, and Cornerstones in Herndon. Touching Heart helps children right here in our community with local projects and programs. In 2022 Touching Heart kids participated in assembling lunches and creating cold care packs for local homeless shelters, organizing Summer Fun Fair and Winter Holiday Parties for Fairfax County foster children and their families, providing backpacks and school supplies to foster children in various counties. Touching Heart also has conducted stringent reviews of several international orphanages, selecting only a few to be our partners. We are very selective on who we partner with, as we provide these orphanages with significant funding for specific projects.
$43,047 spent$18,728 earned by the program83% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $51,961.
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 $232k to $302k (+30%).
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.
33% of TOUCHING HEART’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 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
Helen Shin Yi
Co-Founder and Executive Director and Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $34k → $29k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 TOUCHING 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
TOUCHING HEART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
46% 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 TOUCHING HEART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 49% · 2019 56% · 2020 25% · 2021 39% · 2022 48% · 2023 26% — 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
55% of TOUCHING HEART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
TOUCHING HEART draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k 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
TOUCHING HEART holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,305 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,305 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like TOUCHING 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TOUCHING 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 TOUCHING HEART?
- TOUCHING HEART (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $312,292 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($87,150). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOUCHING HEART have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $312,292 in grants to TOUCHING HEART, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOUCHING HEART?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $87,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOUCHING HEART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 17 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