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JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES

EIN 68-0413822 WATSONVILLE, CA

Revenue 2024
$5,735,777
Expenses 2024
$4,260,307

Program services were 88.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E86
Classification
1000
Street
567 AUTO CENTER DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Since 1998, Jacob's Heart has provided emotional, practical, financial and peer support to hundreds of children with cancer and thousands of their family members.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Jacobs Heart exists to improve the quality of life for children with cancer and support their families in the challenges they face.

  • PRACTICAL AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO FAMILIES OF SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN INCLUDING: $208,641 IN DIRECT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR RENT, UTILITIES, FUEL AND FUNERAL EXPENSES; 8,954 BAGS OF GROCERIES; 202 CARE PACKAGES WITH PERSONALIZED GIFTS AND ESSENTIALS; 1,556 DOOR-TO-DOOR RIDES TO TREATMENT; 583 HOME AND HOSPITAL VISITS; 5,162 CARDS, GIFTS AND REMEMBRANCES TO HONOR TREATMENT MILESTONES; PERSONALIZED GIFTS AND CELEBRATIONS VALUED AT $97,126 WHICH ALLEVIATED STRESS AND DELIVERED JOY TO 300 FAMILY MEMBERS THROUGH HOLIDAY HEARTS ADOPT-A-FAMILY.

    Expenses $1,810,757 · Revenue $228,421

  • SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL SUPPORT TO CHILDREN WHO HAVE CANCER, THEIR PARENTS AND SIBLINGS INCLUDING: ONE ON ONE COUNSELING FOR ALL FAMILY MEMBERS, SAND TRAY THERAPY, BILINGUAL IN-TREATMENT SUPPORT GROUPS, BILINGUAL BEREAVED SUPPORT GROUPS, TEEN SUPPORT GROUPS, CAMP HEART & HANDS LED BY PACKARD HOSPITAL PICU NURSES, FOREVER LOVED BEREAVED FAMILY RETREAT.

    Expenses $1,260,208 · Revenue $358,999

  • COMMUNITY EDUCATION: IN 1999, JACOBS HEART LED THE EFFORTS TO DECLARE SEPTEMBER CHILDHOOD CANCER AWARENESS MONTH BY EXECUTIVE ORDER IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, WHICH HAS SINCE GROWN TO NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE. IN CONTINUATION OF THESE EFFORTS, OUR COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND AWARENESS PROGRAMS STRIVE TO INSPIRE COMPASSIONATE ACTION WITHIN LOCAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH EVENTS IN CELEBRATION OF CHILDHOOD CANCER AWARENESS MONTH; PROCLAMATIONS WITH STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS; AND COMMUNITY MEMORIAL CEREMONIES TO ENSURE THAT NO CHILD IS EVER FORGOTTEN.

    Expenses $412,084

  • FOREVER LOVED GRIEF SUPPORT: JACOBS HEART HAS REALLOCATED FUNDING, RESOURCES, AND STAFF TIME TO FORMALIZE ITS CULTURALLY RELEVANT, MULTIMODAL COMPREHENSIVE GRIEF SUPPORT PROGRAM. RATHER THAN A ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL APPROACH, JACOBS HEART HONORS THE UNIQUE JOURNEY OF EACH GRIEVING FAMILY MEMBER AND DESIGNS SUPPORTIVE OPTIONS AND PROCESSES TO FIT THE INDIVIDUAL, WITH NO TIME LIMIT AFTER THE DEATH OF A CHILD. JACOBS HEART IS ACTIVELY FUNDRAISING TO EVALUATE AND ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF GRIEVING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AND OUR BOARD AND STAFF WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE A STRONG SAFETY NET OF SUPPORT TO ADDRESS THEM EFFECTIVELY, EFFICIENTLY, AND WITH COMPASSION.

    Expenses $276,384

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • HEIDI BOYNTON

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $151,523
    From this org
    $150,481
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,042
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,481
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,042
    Filer's total
    $151,523

  • MARY SMITH

    FAMILY SERV. DIR.

    Total calculated
    $111,538
    From this org
    $111,538
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • PAOLA MONTES

    DEVELOPMENT DIR.

    Total calculated
    $105,235
    From this org
    $105,235
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • LINDA ROSSIE

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GAIL DELOREY

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GUILLE SILVA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BARBARA SOURKES PhD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KAREN STUART

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MELISSA BURKE MPH

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSE CASTILLO

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HARVEY COHEN MD PhD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CATHLEEN CHANDLER-ECKHARDT

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MAUREEN TABARI

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRENDA TIERNEY

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LEE MAY

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GEOFF PERUSSE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROB STUART

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AIMEE GRIJALVA

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MEGAN MARTINELLI

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RYAN MCCORMICK

    Director

    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,735,777
    Expenses
    $4,260,307
    Contributions
    $4,821,405
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,106,068
    Expenses
    $3,315,948
    Contributions
    $2,861,726
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,679,804
    Expenses
    $2,310,407
    Contributions
    $2,467,878
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,957,832
    Expenses
    $2,053,313
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,720,339

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,224,555
    Expenses
    $1,873,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,760,059

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,840,630
    Expenses
    $1,700,889
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,392,507

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,422,632
    Expenses
    $1,371,785
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,221,891

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,345,154
    Expenses
    $1,336,622
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,121,044

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,268,339
    Expenses
    $929,019
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,107,888

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $917,726
    Expenses
    $636,125
    Assets (EOY)
    $719,182

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $692,757
    Expenses
    $473,277
    Assets (EOY)
    $441,789

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $540,574
    Expenses
    $445,546
    Assets (EOY)
    $210,107

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $518,034
    Assets (EOY)
    $118,460

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.