Hearts Alive

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
201952812
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Plain City, OH, USA
Phone
6143292102
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Counseling, Support Groups

Reported finances

Revenue
$67,937
Expenses
$71,317
Assets
$19,718
Liabilities
$1,054

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Donald E Showalter (President)

People named in this filing

  • Roy and Amy Hochstetler (Board Chairman)
  • Monroe and Ida Mast (Board Director)
  • Dan and Rita Miller (Board Director)

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

Marriage/Personal counseling, Teaching, Training

What it reported doing in 2025

Ministry time with a couple or single is one week, involving 15-25 hours of intense dialogue, evaluation, reflection, and spiritual ministry around issues and challenges in relationships. During the 2025 calendar year, we ministered to a number of singles, in pre-marital sessions, and in week-long intensives with married couples. Ministry in churches ranged from weekend marriage retreats (often with a team of other counselors) to week-long seminars or conferences focusing on relationships with spouses, children, friends, and others. There were Zoom interactions, a church conference and pastors assemblies, and opportunities to serve as mentor or coach to other counselors. The President of Hearts Alive also invested time into congregations and local leadership, as invitations come.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: -5%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 70.1%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $71K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.