Deep Heart

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
844110211
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Newport, OR, USA
Phone
7029171261
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$370,690
Expenses
$210,061
Assets
$384,043
Liabilities
$2,533

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Abraham P Woroniecki (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Abraham P Woroniecki (CEO)
  • Sarah J Woroniecki (Secretary and Administrative Director)
  • Rachel R Woroniecki (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Deep Heart uses the performance and visual arts, alongside outreach services, to prevent suicide and violent incidents, reduce recidivism, educate, rehabilitate, and spark personal transformation among the incarcerated community and at-risk populations. Programs include producing transformative entertainment-such as live inspirational events, films, and a magazine-delivered directly into correctional facilities, shelters, detention centers, and crisis-affected communities. These core programs are supported by meal, aid, and correspondence services that offer physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual support to incarcerated individuals and their families, as well as to the homeless, recently released individuals, families living in poverty, and unhoused veterans.

What it reported doing in 2025

Deep Heart's films are virtual adaptations of Deep Heart events and combine filmed acts from the show with cinematic nature videography, stories of Deep Heart's travels as they tour, a variety of impactful music videos, dynamic graphics, didactic motivational speaking, educational presentations of thought-replacement and personal growth counseling, and all-original content specifically created for use in correctional facilities as a rehabilitative tool and round-the-clock educational programming. The films are part of Deep Heart's mission to provide the incarcerated community with entertainment that drives transformation and supply prison administrators with a free, productive, positive resource in corrections. In 2025 Deep Heart released its newest feature-length film, 'Junkyard Boulevard: Where Everything Begins', as well as a featurette, "Wild Horses: A Journey Into the West'. 'Wild Horses' was released late March and subsequently uploaded to Cipherworks and on digital platforms nationally, as well as given to every correctional facility on the 2025 fall tour. 'Junkyard Boulevard' was released in December and sent in DVD or USB chip format to over 110 correctional facilities as a suicide prevention and mental health support tool during the holiday season. It was also uploaded to Cipherworks, adopted by the CA DOC for statewide facility broadcast on institutional channels, and made available on tablets in various other states through direct DOC system upload. Deep Heart is currently submitting both films as well as the 3rd Edition of Unbound to EDOVO and estimates all being available to over 1 million incarcerated persons by mid-2026. Prior years: 2024, Deep Heart's film 'Rise from Rubble' expanded internationally, with showings in prisons across the UK, Scotland, Ireland, South Africa, Colombia, and Eastern Europe, where Deep Heart provided DVDs and USB chips to correctional facility staff during its international summer tour. Viewership also increased across the United States, particularly with the expansion of Edovo into more states and further use on CCTV. As in previous years, the Deep Heart Christmas Special was distributed to hundreds of facilities over the holiday season. 2023: Deep Heart donated over 2,000 DVDs, along with countless digital files and USB drives, to facilities across the country for special events, activity nights, and broadcast on institutional CCTV. The films have been used extensively across California, Kansas, Arizona, and Texas, as well as in Nebraska, Ohio, Florida, and Missouri. In addition, Rise from Rubble and the Deep Heart Christmas Special are available for digital viewing on JPay and Edovo tablets for incarcerated individuals nationwide. 2022: the Rise from Rubble film was translated into Portuguese and adapted to Brazilian culture, where it became a widely adopted resource within Brazilian correctional facilities. In some Brazilian states, inmates receive sentence reductions by participating in a multi-week program that involves watching Rise from Rubble, engaging in discussions, completing questionnaires, and performing acts from the film. The Deep Heart Christmas Special also saw expanded use in 2022-2023, including distribution to all Nevada Department of Corrections facilities. Feedback from inmates has been overwhelmingly positive, with many sharing how the films inspired them and brightened their holidays. Facility staff have expressed immense gratitude for this programming. All Deep Heart films are available for download on the Deep Heart website and can be requested in various formats via email.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 55.4%; rating input score 55
  • Program expense ratio: 95.6%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: $157.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 43.3%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.83; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 27.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 31.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 55.4% of revenue deployed · 95.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $201K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.