Form 990 for tax year 2023

What the amendment changed

Compared with the return it replaced , filed 15 May 2025. matched by us Only the Part I totals and the names listed in Part VII are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Total revenue

$15,339,624 →changed to $29,827,850

Total expenses

$14,809,602 →changed to $29,181,916

Contributions and grants received

$15,324,218 →changed to $29,811,824

Other revenue

$10,846 →changed to $11,466

Total assets, end of year

$2,904,806 →changed to $3,025,156

Total liabilities, end of year

$5,179 →changed to $9,617

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$2,899,627 →changed to $3,015,539

Program services expenses

$14,726,351 →changed to $29,069,250

Management and general expenses

$83,251 →changed to $112,666

Program service expenses (Part III)

$14,726,351 →changed to $29,069,250

Totals

Total revenue

$29,827,850

Total expenses

$29,181,916

Contributions and grants received

$29,811,824

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$4,560

Other revenue

$11,466

Total assets, end of year

$3,025,156

Total liabilities, end of year

$9,617

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$3,015,539

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$29,069,250

Management and general expenses

$112,666

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$29,069,250

Program services were 99.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• HEART OF COMPASSION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS PRIMARILY AS A FOOD DISTRIBUTION CENTER. THE ORGANIZATION COLLECTED, PACKAGED, AND DISTRIBUTED OVER 13.5 MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD AND OVER 550,000 POUNDS OF PERSONAL GOODS TO PEOPLE IN NEED IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH A NETWORK OF 85 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING PARTNERSHIPS AND PROGRAMS, WEEKLY EVENTS WERE HELD ON SITE AND THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

  Expenses $29,069,250

• HEART OF COMPASSION DISTRIBUTION OPERATES A MEN'S REHABILITATION AND RECOVERY HOME. MEN WHO ARE EXPERIENCING HARD TIMES, COMING OUT OF GANGS, DRUGS, PRISON, OR OTHER DIFFICULTIES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TURN THEIR LIVES AROUND AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE COMMUNITY BY VOLUNTARILY ENROLLING IN A ONE-YEAR PROGRAM THAT OFFERS DRUG AND ALCOHOL REHABILITATION AND JOB AND LIFE SKILLS TRAINING. ALL PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUIRED TO UNDERGO ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASSES AND DRUG COUNSELING TO MINIMIZE THE CHANCE OF RECIDIVISM. MEN ARE REQUIRED TO PUT IN 40-45 HOURS PER WEEK OF COMMUNITY SERVICE AT OUR DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSE AS PART OF THE PROGRAM. OUR MEN RECEIVE WAREHOUSE LOGISTICS TRAINING, INCLUDING HOW TO USE FORKLIFTS, PALLET JACKS, LOADING AND UNLOADING TRUCKS, AND POTENTIALLY BOBTAIL TRUCK DRIVING TRAINING. THE PROGRAM ENDEAVORS TO GIVE MEN THE PROPER JOB AND LIFE SKILLS NECESSARY TO SUCCEED IN SOCIETY, ALONG WITH PROVIDING COPING SKILLS TO PREVENT TRIGGERS. THE COMMUNITY SERVICE REQUIREMENT INCREASES THE SELF-ESTEEM OF THE MEN IN THE PROGRAM BY ALLOWING THEM TO HELP PROVIDE FOOD AND OTHER ESSENTIAL GOODS TO LOW-INCOME FAMILIES. SEEING THE POSITIVE EFFECT OF THEIR WORK AND WHAT IT DOES FOR LOCAL FAMILIES BUILDS THE MEN'S CONFIDENCE AND SENSE OF WORTH. ON AVERAGE, THERE ARE ABOUT SEVEN MEN ENROLLED IN THE MEN'S HOME AT ANY GIVEN TIME. WE HAVE HAD MANY SUCCESS STORIES IN THE MEN'S HOME: FOUR MEN BECAME MINISTERS; THREE MEN BECAME WAREHOUSE MANAGERS; TWO MEN WERE PROMOTED TO DIRECTORS AT THE MEN'S HOME; ONE MAN BECAME A VOLUNTEER NIGHT WATCHMAN FOR THE WAREHOUSE PROPERTY FOR ALMOST TWENTY YEARS; AND MULITPLE MEN WER ABLE TO OBTAIN GOOD, STEADY JOBS AFTER LEAVING THE PROGRAM. SOME OF THE MEN STILL RETURN TO HEART OF COMPASSIN DISTRIBUTION TO HELP VOLUNTEER FOR SPECIAL EVENTS.

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

• MELISSA GARCIA

  SECRETARY

  Total calculated

  $18,720

  From this org

  $18,720

  From related orgs

  $0

  Other

  $0

  Hours/week

  20

• ERIC TIETZE

  PRESIDENT

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  30

• PETER MIER

  DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  10

• JOHN DAVIS

  TREASURER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  15

• ROBERT LEATHERS

  DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  10

• REBECCA LEATHERS

  DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  10

• ROBERT RUIZ

  DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  10

• MILTON MIER

  DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  10

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

12 November 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202523169349307272

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