Nonprofit · EIN 81-2844794
OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC
Tax-exempt · DELRAY BEACH, FL 33482
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2025 | 990 | $734,365 | $821,438 | -$87,073 | $187,005 | $6,663 | $180,342 |
| December 31, 2024 | 990 (amended) | $568,817 | $535,077 | $33,740 | $278,289 | $10,874 | $267,415 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $474,423 | $401,470 | $72,953 | $235,210 | $1,537 | $233,673 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $728,256
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $3,344
- Other revenue
- $2,765
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $592,167
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $75,000
- Other salaries and wages
- $53,600
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $139,418
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $25,304
- Travel
- $9,310
- Program services (functional)
- $712,233
- Management and general (functional)
- $71,901
- Fundraising (functional)
- $37,304
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $278,289
- Total assets, end of year
- $187,005
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $6,663
- Net assets, end of year
- $180,342
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $172,947
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $7,395
- Gross receipts
- $751,239
- Employees
- 3
- Volunteers
- 18
- Year formed
- 2017
- State of legal domicile
- FL
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| LISA MURPHY | CEO Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $75,000 |
| CINDY NAU | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 5 | $0 |
| SUZANNE STILLWELL | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 5 | $0 |
| CARRIE SOCHA | CHAIRMAN Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| MIA ANDERTON | SECRETARY Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| SHEA STUDINGER | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 5 | $0 |
| NICK CALABRO | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 5 | $0 |
| JULIE CARR | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 5 | $0 |
| MANDY FORRESTER | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 5 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2024: 9 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| LISA MURPHY | CEO Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $60,000 |
| ANN BARTLINSKI | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 5 | $0 |
| JULIE CARR | TREASURER Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| CINDY NAU | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 5 | $0 |
| SUZANNE STILLWELL | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 8 | $0 |
| CARRIE SOCHA | CHAIRMAN Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| MIA ANDERTON | SECRETARY Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| SHEA STUDINGER | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 5 | $0 |
| NICK CALABRO | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 5 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 9 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| LISA MURPHY | CEO Officer | 40 | $36,000 |
| ANN BARTLINKSI | BOARD OF DIR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| JULIE CARR | BOARD OF DIR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| JAMES MURPHY | BOARD OF DIR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| CINDY NAU | BOARD OF DIR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| SUSIE ROEGIERS | TREASURER Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| MARYLOU SAMMONS | BOARD OF DIR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| CARRIE SOCHA | CHAIRMAN Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| SUZANNE STILLWELL | BOARD OF DIR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- PO BOX 8074, DELRAY BEACH, FL 33482-8074
- In care of
- % LISA MURPHY
- Principal officer (990 for 2025)
- LISA MURPHY, PO BOX 8074, DELRAY BEACH, FL 33482
- Signed the 990
- LISA MURPHY, CEO
- Phone
- (561) 827-2222
- Return prepared by
- Ricciardella CPA PLLC
Mission
To provide for the needs of orphans worldwide through medical intervention, financial assistance for adoptive families, and providing the most basic necessities.
Program accomplishments
- Meeting Basic Needs: -OHFO helped fund a DCF Playroom and Resource Room in Broward County, Florida, creating a safe and comforting transition space for children moving out of crisis situations. -We provided 7 fully furnished homes for widows and orphans in Ugandaeach with solar power, water tanks, latrines, and kitchens positively impacting 35 children and bringing our total homes built to 45. -OHFO funded the release of 17 children from orphanages or prison settings in Uganda. -We financed foster care placements for 30 vulnerable children in Uganda. -OHFO made tuition assistance possible for 80 children in Uganda. -OHFO provided 35 specialized clean-water filters to families in Uganda, along with hands-on training. -We supported 70 vulnerable children in South Florida and Arizona through partner organizations. -OHFO provided graduation gift cards to 75 children in local foster care completing middle school, high school, and college.Expenses $385,598 · grants $355,911
- Adoption Assistance & Advocacy: -We funded 26 Say Yes adoption grants in 2025. -33 more children came home in 2025 with the help of our grant bringing our total to over 160 families. -Our grants will impact children with multiple special needs from 8 countries - Bulgaria, Colombia, India, Liberia, Poland, Taiwan, Uganda, and USA. -We continued our role as an official Family-Match FRO (Family Recruitment Organization) in Palm Beach County and beyond to connect interested families with adoptable children in our foster system. -We participated in the No More Orphans experience, attracting many open hearts to the plight of vulnerable children and provided resources through our ARISE program. Our ARISE meetings and consultations are available to the local South Florida community, and our hope is that the mission will spread as we strive to bring authentic voices into the conversation.Expenses $186,652 · grants $117,508
- Medical Intervention for Orphans: -We launched our Hearts of Hope cardiac program in partnership with Upasuaji International creating an unprecedented pathway for in-country care and provided cardiac interventions for six vulnerable children in Uganda. -We funded a hypospadias repair for an orphan. -We funded critical care for Josiah in Uganda, a little boy who was near death. -With our Uganda partners, who saw a continued surge of abandoned and malnourished babies, we provided life-saving baby formula and supplements for 25 babies through our Nurtured Hearts program. -Ann Bartlinski, our Director of Orphan Care and Medical programs traveled to Uganda and carried essential supplies in her luggage, including tins of infant formula. Ann was able to follow up on cases from previous years.Expenses $139,983 · grants $118,748
- Meeting Basic Needs, continued - We provided toys for 105 children in Ugandamany receiving a toy for the very first time.
- Adoption Assistance & Advocacy, continued - We continued our partnership with Childrens Home Society (CHS) in Palm Beach County, providing recruitment events for adoptable children in the foster system, where prospective families could attend and participate. We celebrated local adoptions again by providing Welcome Home gift cards to 14 children adopted from foster care into 11 families on National Adoption Day in November.
- Medical Intervention for Orphans, continued - We embarked on our largest scale project to date - refurbishing the pediatric ward of St. Joseph Kitovu Hospital in Masaka, Uganda. By years end, the construction phase was 100% funded and 75% complete. This renovation will change the trajectory of care for vulnerable children in an impoverished rural area.
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 81-2844794
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2017
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Human services (P31)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $187,005
- Income (IRS master file)
- $751,239
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2025 | $734,365 | $821,438 | $187,005 | XML |
| 990 | December 2024 | $568,817 | $535,077 | $278,289 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2023 | $474,423 | $401,470 | $235,210 | XML |
| 990 | December 2022 | $394,721 | $390,317 | $161,225 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | December 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | December 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 81-2844794).
Questions about OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC
- What is the EIN of OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC is 81-2844794.
- Is OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2017.
- Are donations to OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC due?
- The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 names LISA MURPHY.
- Who are the officers and directors of OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 9 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $75,000 (LISA MURPHY, CEO).
- How much revenue does OPEN HEARTS FOR ORPHANS INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $734,365, expenses of $821,438 and total assets of $187,005 at year end.
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