Heartbeat International 
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Summary
Heartbeat International's worldwide network of more than 3,000 pro-life pregnancy help organizations is here. We provide comprehensive pregnancy help to the woman wherever she is on her journey. From seeing the flutter of the heartbeat on her first ultrasound, to teaching parenting classes or coordinating an adoption plan, and providing material aid throughout the pregnancy and beyond, we offer compassionate support so that no woman ever feels that abortion is her only option.
Contact information
Mailing address:
8405 Pulsar Place
Ste. 100
Columbus, OH 43240
Website: heartbeatinternational.org
Phone: (614)885-7577
Email: [email protected]
Organization details
EIN: 237335592
CEO/President: Jor-El Godsey
Chairman: Peggy Hartshorn
Board size: 15
Founder: Dr. John Hillabrand and Lore Maier
Ruling year: 1974
Tax deductible: Yes
Fiscal year end: 09/30
Member of ECFA: No
Member of ECFA since:
Purpose
Our Life-Saving Vision is a world where every new life is welcomed and children are nurtured within strong families, according to God's Plan, so that abortion is unthinkable.
Mission statement
Heartbeat International's mission is to Reach and Rescue as many lives as possible, around the world, through an effective network of life-affirming pregnancy help, to Renew communities for LIFE.
Statement of faith
Donor confidence score
Transparency grade
D
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Financial efficiency ratings
Sector: Pro-Life
| Category | Rating | Overall rank | Sector rank |
| Overall efficiency rating | | 421 of 1118 | 16 of 30 |
| Fund acquisition rating | | 934 of 1119 | 28 of 30 |
| Resource allocation rating | | 442 of 1119 | 14 of 30 |
| Asset utilization rating | | 56 of 1118 | 2 of 30 |
Financial ratios
| Funding ratios | Sector median | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts = Fundraising expense / Total contributions | 10% | 23% | 29% | 29% | 26% | 17% |
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio = Fundraising expense / Total revenue | 9% | 17% | 23% | 24% | 22% | 14% |
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance = Total contributions / Total revenue | 95% | 74% | 78% | 80% | 86% | 81% |
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio = Fundraising expense / Total expenses | 10% | 16% | 20% | 22% | 22% | 19% |
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance = Total other revenue / Total revenue | 5% | 26% | 22% | 20% | 14% | 19% |
| Operating ratios | Sector median | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio = Program services / Total expenses | 80% | 80% | 66% | 73% | 73% | 76% |
Spending ratio Spending ratio = Total expenses / Total revenue | 94% | 103% | 113% | 108% | 100% | 73% |
Program output ratio Program output ratio = Program services / Total revenue | 73% | 82% | 75% | 79% | 74% | 55% |
Savings ratio Savings ratio = Surplus (deficit) / Total revenue | 6% | -3% | -13% | -8% | 0% | 27% |
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate = Surplus (deficit) / Net assets | 8% | -15% | -55% | -18% | -1% | 57% |
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio = Management and general expense / Total expenses | 11% | 4% | 14% | 5% | 5% | 5% |
| Investing ratios | Sector median | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover = Total expenses / Total assets | 1.06 | 3.50 | 3.39 | 1.98 | 1.48 | 1.42 |
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment = Total assets / Total current assets | 1.57 | 1.79 | 1.13 | 20.15 | 1.04 | 1.21 |
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover = Total expenses / Total current assets | 1.54 | 6.25 | 3.83 | 39.87 | 1.54 | 1.71 |
| Liquidity ratios | Sector median | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
Current ratio Current ratio = Total current assets / Total current liabilities | 13.25 | 2.26 | 3.05 | 0.31 | 10.41 | 14.28 |
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio = Total current liabilities / Total current assets | 0.07 | 0.44 | 0.33 | 3.17 | 0.10 | 0.07 |
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level = (Total current assets - Total current liabilities) / (Total expenses / 12) | 6.36 | 1.07 | 2.11 | -0.65 | 7.05 | 6.51 |
| Solvency ratios | Sector median | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio = Total liabilities / Total assets | 14% | 35% | 29% | 16% | 9% | 6% |
Debt ratio Debt ratio = Debt / Total assets | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio = Net assets / Total expenses | 89% | 19% | 21% | 43% | 61% | 66% |
Financials
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Assets | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
| Cash | $1,460,091 | $2,485,333 | $170,721 | $4,113,758 | $3,008,336 |
| Receivables, inventories, prepaids | $145,386 | $198,728 | $26,148 | $48,776 | $25,404 |
| Short-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other current assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current assets | $1,605,477 | $2,684,061 | $196,869 | $4,162,534 | $3,033,740 |
| Long-term investments | $0 | $0 | $3,500,271 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed assets | $167,369 | $346,491 | $84,410 | $48,454 | $562,374 |
| Other long-term assets | $1,092,978 | $655 | $184,675 | $122,119 | $69,445 |
| Total long-term assets | $1,260,347 | $347,146 | $3,769,356 | $170,573 | $631,819 |
| Total assets | $2,865,824 | $3,031,207 | $3,966,225 | $4,333,107 | $3,665,559 |
| Liabilities | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
| Payables and accrued expenses | $546,260 | $633,252 | $299,962 | $291,730 | $212,404 |
| Other current liabilities | $162,833 | $247,438 | $325,096 | $107,949 | $0 |
| Total current liabilities | $709,093 | $880,690 | $625,058 | $399,679 | $212,404 |
| Debt | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Due to (from) affiliates | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term liabilities | $291,665 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total long-term liabilities | $291,665 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total liabilities | $1,000,758 | $880,690 | $625,058 | $399,679 | $212,404 |
| Net assets | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
| Without donor restrictions | $1,368,900 | $1,023,745 | $1,230,088 | $203,433 | $432,267 |
| With donor restrictions | $496,166 | $1,126,772 | $2,111,079 | $3,729,995 | $3,020,888 |
| Net assets | $1,865,066 | $2,150,517 | $3,341,167 | $3,933,428 | $3,453,155 |
| Revenues and expenses | |||||
| Revenue | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
| Total contributions | $7,220,101 | $7,042,245 | $5,814,108 | $5,466,849 | $5,824,958 |
| Program service revenue | $2,451,124 | $2,028,228 | $1,204,104 | $800,426 | $1,125,233 |
| Membership dues | $0 | $0 | $237,234 | $107,616 | $189,343 |
| Investment income | $83,569 | $11,962 | $1,376 | $10,261 | $14,559 |
| Other revenue | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total other revenue | $2,534,693 | $2,040,190 | $1,442,714 | $918,303 | $1,329,135 |
| Total revenue | $9,754,794 | $9,082,435 | $7,256,822 | $6,385,152 | $7,154,093 |
| Expenses | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
| Program services | $8,021,036 | $6,804,262 | $5,767,135 | $4,709,343 | $3,959,825 |
| Management and general | $382,599 | $1,397,307 | $376,366 | $298,371 | $246,495 |
| Fundraising | $1,636,610 | $2,071,516 | $1,705,582 | $1,401,540 | $991,539 |
| Total expenses | $10,040,245 | $10,273,085 | $7,849,083 | $6,409,254 | $5,197,859 |
| Change in net assets | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
| Surplus (deficit) | ($285,451) | ($1,190,650) | ($592,261) | ($24,102) | $1,956,234 |
| Other changes in net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total change in net assets | ($285,451) | ($1,190,650) | ($592,261) | ($24,102) | $1,956,234 |
Compensation
| Name | Title | Compensation |
| Jor-El Godsey | President | $150,316 |
Compensation data as of: 9/30/2023
Response from ministry
No response has been provided by this ministry.
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History
Our story is really a glorious mosaic of thousands of small personal stories of everyday people who, in response to the spread of legalized abortion, stepped in to help women escape the temptation and pressure to abort their precious babies. They discovered the life-saving power they had as neighbors helping neighbors. Then the word spread.
Some people started hotlines. Others opened their homes to young girls. Still more adopted. The modern pregnancy help movement was born. Hotlines grew into pregnancy help centers and medical clinics. People opening their homes to abandoned or desperate young mothers developed into maternity homes. Adopting families linked up to promote adoption services.
A clearinghouse was needed to track and share contact information. On November 13, 1971, Dr. John Hillabrand, a Toledo, Ohio, obstetrician, and Lore Maier, a refugee from Nazi Germany, formed Alternatives to Abortion to network emerging hotlines and pregnancy help services. Knowing that legalized abortion would spread rapidly around the world, they soon became Alternatives to Abortion International (AAI).
By 1993, about 75 original contacts had grown to about 200 affiliates and AAI changed its name to Heartbeat International. More and more Catholic and Evangelical Christians felt called to help and start calling for help. We became the "go-to" place for start-up manuals, model programs, leadership training conferences, and a place to go for advice and prayer. Heartbeat International currently serves over 3,000 affiliated pregnancy help locations, maternity homes, and non-profit adoption agencies on all 6 inhabited continents.
Over 50 years later, the Heartbeat International story continues to take exciting and challenging turns as we develop leaders to supply a growing pregnancy help movement. From the underserved urban neighborhoods, so often targeted by Big Abortion, to the rural reaches, the mission field created by abortion calls us to impact more lives. Around the globe, from Australia to Zimbabwe, God's people worldwide are answering the call to reach, rescue, renew.
The best alternative to abortion is another person. Our story continues then as simply one of helping God's people discover the life-saving, death-defying, soul-satisfying, and God-glorifying power of neighborly love.
Read more about our story in "The Power of Pregnancy Help," a history of the pregnancy help community by Heartbeat International Board Chairman Peggy Hartshorn, Ph.D. and President Jor-El Godsey.
Program accomplishments
2,836,300 TOTAL IN-PERSON CLIENT VISITS at pregnancy help centers in 2022, an increase of 36% over 2021
35,012 active volunteers at affiliate locations
1,132 lives rescued through the Abortion Pill Rescue® Network
3,250 Heartbeat affiliates in the world in 2022 of the 7,000 locations total providing pregnancy help worldwide.