Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$312,811

Total expenses

$398,327

Contributions and grants received

$427,706

Grants paid

$32,500

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$1,126

Other revenue

-$116,021

Total assets, end of year

$699,225

Total liabilities, end of year

$383,244

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$315,981

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$323,739

Management and general expenses

$33,641

Fundraising expenses

$40,947

Program service expenses (Part III)

$323,739

Program services were 81.3% 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 · 2025

• HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION, INC., DOING BUSINESS AS FORHEARTS WORLDWIDE AND PACEMAKER CLUB, IMPROVES AND SAVES LIVES BY PROVIDING ACCESS TO LIFESAVING CARDIOVASCULAR IMPLANTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES (CIEDS), COMPREHENSIVE PATIENT EDUCATION, AND LONG-TERM SUPPORT FOR INDIVIDUALS LIVING WITH HEART RHYTHM DISORDERS IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD. THROUGH A GLOBAL NETWORK OF VOLUNTEER PHYSICIANS, HOSPITALS, HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS, CORPORATE PARTNERS, AND COMMUNITY SUPPORTERS, THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES DEVICE IMPLANTATION, FOLLOW-UP CARE, PATIENT EDUCATION, AND ONGOING SUPPORT AT NO COST TO QUALIFIED PATIENTS.(SEE SCHEDULE O FOR CONTINUATION OF PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS) DURING 2025, FORHEARTS WORLDWIDE IMPLANTED 133 LIFESAVING CARDIAC DEVICES THROUGH SIX INTERNATIONAL HEART CENTERS SERVING PATIENTS IN GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, MEXICO, PARAGUAY, THE PHILIPPINES, AND TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. THE FOUNDATION'S PATIENT EDUCATION AND SUPPORT INITIATIVES REACHED A GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF MORE THAN 34,000 PACEMAKER CLUB MEMBERS, PRODUCED OVER 40 EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, AND DELIVERED FIVE LIVE CARDIAC CAF EDUCATIONAL WEBINARS FEATURING PHYSICIANS AND HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS. SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 1984, THE FOUNDATION HAS HELPED PROVIDE MORE THAN 18,000 LIFESAVING CARDIAC DEVICES TO PATIENTS IN MORE THAN 20 COUNTRIES, DEMONSTRATING ITS ENDURING COMMITMENT TO EXPANDING ACCESS TO CARDIOVASCULAR CARE WORLDWIDE.EACH OF THE FOUNDATION'S SIX INTERNATIONAL HEART CENTERS IS STAFFED BY APPROXIMATELY TWO TO THREE VOLUNTEER ELECTROPHYSIOLOGISTS AND CARDIOLOGISTS WHO GENEROUSLY DONATE THEIR EXPERTISE TO PROVIDE IMPLANTATION PROCEDURES, FOLLOW-UP CARE, AND LONG-TERM PATIENT MANAGEMENT. TOGETHER, THESE PHYSICIAN VOLUNTEERS AND LOCAL HEALTHCARE TEAMS PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE CARDIAC CARE FOR PATIENTS WHO WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE LITTLE OR NO ACCESS TO LIFESAVING TREATMENT.RECOGNIZING THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF MEDICAL DEVICE PHILANTHROPY, FORHEARTS WORLDWIDE HAS CONTINUED TO STRENGTHEN A SUSTAINABLE HUMANITARIAN MODEL THAT COMBINES CHARITABLE FUNDRAISING, STRATEGIC CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS, VOLUNTEER PHYSICIANS, NONPROFIT COLLABORATION, AND RESPONSIBLE DEVICE STEWARDSHIP TO ENSURE ONGOING ACCESS TO LIFESAVING CARDIAC THERAPIES. AS MANUFACTURER DONATIONS HAVE DECLINED IN RECENT YEARS, THE FOUNDATION HAS SUCCESSFULLY EXPANDED ITS ABILITY TO PURCHASE DEVICES THROUGH CHARITABLE SUPPORT WHILE CONTINUING TO MAXIMIZE THE USE OF DONATED DEVICES WHENEVER APPROPRIATE AND LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE.THE FOUNDATION'S WORK IS STRENGTHENED THROUGH AN EXPANDING NETWORK OF HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS, MEDICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURERS, NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, AND HUMANITARIAN PARTNERS THAT COLLECTIVELY INCREASE ACCESS TO CARDIOVASCULAR CARE WORLDWIDE. THESE COLLABORATIONS EXTEND BEYOND DEVICE PROCUREMENT TO INCLUDE PHYSICIAN EDUCATION, PATIENT IDENTIFICATION, PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNITY OUTREACH, AND SUSTAINABLE CARDIAC CARE INFRASTRUCTURE. PARTNERSHIPS WITH ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS MY HEART YOUR HEART, ARRHYTHMIA ALLIANCE/PACE4LIFE, LOCAL HOSPITALS, ROTARY ORGANIZATIONS, VOLUNTEER MEDICAL TEAMS, AND CORPORATE SUPPORTERS ENABLE FORHEARTS WORLDWIDE TO LEVERAGE EXPERTISE, RESOURCES, AND INNOVATION TO REACH MORE PATIENTS WHILE STRENGTHENING LOCAL HEALTHCARE CAPACITY.

  Expenses $305,269 · Grants $32,500

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $18,470

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

• THOMAS CRAWFORD MD

  CHAIRMAN & MEDICAL DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  5

• PETER MUSAIB-ALI

  VC, DIR-CARIBBEAN & RDC CH

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  3

• LISA MILANO CPA

  TREASURER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  3

• ARIEL GARCIA SALAZAR

  DIRECTOR OF LATIN AMERICA

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• JOSEPH V MESSER MD

  DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• DAVID B KATCHER

  DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• RICARDO MENESES MD

  DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• DR FRED KUSUMOTO

  DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• RON MILLS

  DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• DR KIM EAGLE

  DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• STUART BLOCK

  DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• LAURA M DELISE

  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $115,185

  From this org

  $115,185

  From related orgs

  $0

  Other

  $0

  Hours/week

  40

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

2025

Filed

3 September 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.2

Source object

202622479349300107

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