Heart 4 Homeless
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851381619
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $118,565
- Expenses
- $125,417
- Assets
- $18,534
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karen Hedegaard (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Karen Hedegaard (CEO)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide assistance and food to the homeless and at risk.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grants provided to ensure continued housing
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 83% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.8%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 7
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.8% of revenue deployed · 7.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 7 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.