Hearts Aligned Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871191245
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8056795505
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $622,118
- Expenses
- $366,847
- Assets
- $483,135
- Liabilities
- $15,260
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VIVIAN SOLODKIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- COLLEEN SITOLINI (BOARD CHAIR)
- BRIGETTE WELTY (VICE CHAIR)
- LUCY KOMANSAHAD (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
Hearts aligned helps families with critically ill children living in santa barbara county by providing financial assistance, family support and advocacy. We work with all pediatric critical illness except for pediatric cancers.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, hearts aligned helped 125 families with critically ill children, impacting 469 individuals. The average annual income of the families we served was $36,167. Within santa barbara county in 2025, 80% of the families we served lived in north county. The majority of the critically ill children we served were under the age of 3 (76.5%), 12% were ages 4-12, and 11% were teenagers (13-17). Over 95% of the children had recent hospital stays of over 1 week with some in the hospital for over 5 months. Our direct financial assistance program provides up to $2,500 for each critically ill child in a family. In 2025, hearts aligned provided rental assistance (28%), food vouchers and grocery cards (29%), gas cards (14%), household items which include diapers, wipes, car seats, strollers, etc. (10%), vehicle expenses (7%), funeral expenses (7%), utility assistance (3%) and hotel/lodging (1%). The impact of our direct financial assistance program ensured that families were not left homeless, were not hungry and were able to travel to out-of-area hospitals to be with their critically ill child.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 66% for direct work, and 34% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. 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: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.4%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th 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: 41%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 42.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 41.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.4% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $304K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.