Take Heart Cancer Community

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
923249667
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Delaware, OH, USA
Phone
6145588140
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$95,788
Expenses
$87,732
Assets
$63,717

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • ASHLEY CHICKERELLA (CO-FOUNDER A)
  • JOEL WHARTON (BOARD MEMBER)
  • NATHAN REHM (BOARD MEMBER)

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

Take heart is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to equip the church to walk with those impacted by cancer and other chronic illnesses. We do this primarily through ministry leader training, church hosted support groups, and through relevant, bible-centered content, articles, videos and more.

What it reported doing in 2025

Training curriculum software design, videos, landing page, phase 1 project specifications & deliverables development: project management, research, essential development meetings, and site planning for ui/ux content ui/ux design: defining styles for ui/ux elements and other site-wide styling; defining and preparing icon system/art; wireframe design using figma; layout of elements and high- fidelity page designs using figma digital delivery of figma package and component assets to web developer talking head training videos includes: pre-production & development: logistical planning, project management, and style development production: two production dates, up to 6 hours each (1 location with 2 sets); 3-person crew with 23 cameras, audio, lighting, grip/electric post-production: editing services for 8 talking head training videos, max 8-minute runtime each; basic motion graphics for on-screen supplementary content; up to 3 rounds of client revisions per video; basic music licensing; all final deliverables exported and delivered digitally care training landing page includes: development: project management and creative development web design services: wix web design services for new landing page on existing website; all content to be furnished by take heart; up 3 rounds of client revisions (wireframes; mockup; sandbox page)

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

SUPPORTED - 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: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47.9%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 52.4%; rating input score 52

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: 8.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 37.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 68.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 27.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47.9% of revenue deployed · 52.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $46K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.