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← HEARTLIGHT CENTER INC

Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by HEARTLIGHT CENTER INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$683,127
Total expenses
$611,458
Contributions and grants received
$395,143
Grants paid
$19,335
Program service revenue
$53,550
Investment income
$8,787
Other revenue
$225,647
Total assets, end of year
$493,234
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$493,234
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$327,558
Management and general expenses
$83,021
Fundraising expenses
$200,879
Program service expenses (Part III)
$327,558

Program services were 53.6% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $395,143

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Grief Counseling

    total $39,951 · related or exempt $39,951

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Online store

    total $13,599 · related or exempt $13,599

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $8,787 · related or exempt $8,787

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $225,647

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $225,647 · unrelated business $225,647

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $19,335 · program services $19,335

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $139,169 · program services $139,169

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $216,686 · program services $76,884 · management and general $41,999 · fundraising $97,803

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $3,045 · management and general $3,045

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $39,658 · program services $23,614 · management and general $4,805 · fundraising $11,239

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $5,201 · management and general $5,201

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $91,837 · fundraising $91,837

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $3,276 · program services $3,276

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $1,226 · management and general $1,226

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $37,950 · program services $32,258 · management and general $5,692

  • 17 · Travel

    total $2,443 · management and general $2,443

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $1,424 · program services $1,424

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $4,861 · management and general $4,861

  • 24a · Other expenses: Meals

    total $807 · program services $449 · management and general $358

  • 24b · Other expenses: Dues and subscriptions

    total $2,936 · program services $2,936

  • 24c · Other expenses: Software

    total $3,375 · program services $2,722 · management and general $653

  • 24d · Other expenses: Supplies

    total $5,693 · program services $5,693

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $32,536 · program services $19,798 · management and general $12,738

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $421,565 · end of year $391,317

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $101,917

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $421,565 · end of year $493,234

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Provide meaningful, accessible grief support and education to those grieving and professional and volunteer caregivers working with those grieving.

  • HeartLight Center offers programming and resources for anyone who has experienced a death loss through open grief support groups, curriculum based grief support groups, workshops, educational presentations and resources. In 2025 HeartLight hosted 495 Grief Support Groups, 83 workshops and 15 educational presentations to support grievers.

    Expenses $124,472

  • HeartLight Center offers programming, training, education and coordinated networking opportunities for Professional and volunteer caregivers. In 2025 HeartLight Center hosted industry expert speakers and authors to provide educational programming, accessible to anyone through HeartLight Centers website at no cost to learners and professionals. HeartLight hosted over 20 volunteer and facilitator trainings. In 2025, HeartLight offers internship placements for graduate level social workers, counselors and human service majors hosting more than 15 student interns. HeartLight coordinates networking opportunities for professionals working in end-of-life, death care and bereavement in order to reduce duplication of services and increase access to services for those served by professionals, hosting and coordinating over 15 events.

    Expenses $121,196

  • HeartLight Center offers grief support resources to anyone grieving, supporting someone grieving and professional and volunteer caregivers. Vetted, evidence based resources are developed and accessible on the HeartLight Center website and for purchase. Resources include, but are not limited to: printable PDF handouts on grief specific topics, brochures, curriculum based Facilitator Support Group Trainings and materials, book and media grief support recommendations etc. HeartLight Center produces two HeartLight Highlight magazine mailers on the topics of Tat the Intersection of Trauma and Grief and Grief and the Holidays. This resources is available online and was mailed to over 4000 individuals.

    Expenses $81,890

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jennifer Flaum

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $139,169
    From this org
    $139,169
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jamie McConaty

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Stephanie Heitkemper

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Effie Kavadas-Wilson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • June Seppa

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marlene Seward

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Veldkamp

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jennifer Hay

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jen Thomas

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shane Phillips

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lynn Gibson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
21 July 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202602159349300255

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