Heartfelt Help Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
850941720
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Petaluma, CA, USA
Phone
7072934565
Rating
55
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$68,532
Expenses
$28,538
Assets
$90,954
Liabilities
$2,635

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Denise Redeker (Founder and Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Denise Redeker (Founder and Executive Director)
  • Jim Redeker (Finance Director and Corp Sectetary)
  • Matthew Redeker (Director and Advisor)

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

The mission purpose of Heartfelt Help Foundation HHF is to help financially challenged heart transplant recipients in Northern California pay transplant related expenses not covered by insurance HHF also mentors heart transplant patients to help them maximize the gift of life they received and educates the public about organ donation and transplant

What it reported doing in 2025

We also operate three mentoring programs Peer-to-Peer Parent Grief and Financial Coaching We provide these programs free of charge and they generate no revenue Likewise they neither create nor incur any expenses that HHF pays the hosts therapist and coaches all volunteer their time and pay their own office expenses These programs do not provide financial grants to anyone

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 16
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 10.4%; rating input score 10
  • Program expense ratio: 24.9%; rating input score 25

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 58.4%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.19; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -116.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 60.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 10.4% of revenue deployed · 24.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 10/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.