Take Heart

Legal name: Take Heart Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
475266388
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Old Bethpage, NY, United States
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,024,495
Expenses
$2,093,644
Assets
$4,009,690
Liabilities
$32,500

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • AIDA SAMIR (OFFICER)
  • MARK GUIRGUIS (BOARD MEMBER)
  • AYMAN SOLIMAN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

At Take Heart we partner with local leaders in some of the most persecuted areas, seeking development opportunities. We refuse to be a handout or a crutch; we train, equip, and encourage partners for sustainability. We are extraordinarily grateful for our partners, both locally and internationally, who stand with us in our mission to serve persecuted Christians around the globe. These incredible partners bring an unwavering spirit of hope, faith, passion, and love to every aspect of their work. Their dedication and support are the backbone of our efforts, helping to provide vital aid and encouragement to those facing persecution. Are you interested in partnering withTake Heart? There are numerous ways your organization can collaborate with us to make a meaningful impact on persecuted Christians in countries such as Nigeria, Egypt, and Iraq. Whether through financial support, resource...

What it reported doing in 2025

Spiritual Encouragement Services Take Heart trains and equips local leaders to consistently visit Christians in their community to pray with them, encourage them, and have fellowship with them. This includes bi-monthly visits for prayers and sharing the Bible, regular spiritual days, annual three-day spiritual retreats, home visits, summer activities, and enhancing the relationship between churches and its congregation by bringing a new generation into the churchs fold. Spiritual Leadership Take Heart trains, and equips leaders within a community who can step up to spiritually encourage their neighbors and address specific needs. Leaders are identified by partnering with the local churches who nominate a list of men and women they think would make good leaders. Take Heart holds regular meetings with local leaders to follow up on their progress and one- or two-yearly retreats for local leaders to encourage and empower them. Recently, Ignite Academy was launched in locally to establish a second line of leaders to equip them with the tools to lead.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 79% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 43
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
  • Program expense ratio: 92.1%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 30.8%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 22.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 92.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 21 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.