Hearts in Motion

What Hearts in Motion does

Hearts in Motion is a U.S.-domiciled nonprofit humanitarian organization founded in 1995 and headquartered at 2210 US 41, Schererville, Indiana. The organization recruits individual volunteers for short-term service trips, primarily to Gualan in the Zacapa region of Guatemala, where it delivers general and women's health, dental, therapy (physical, occupational, and speech), home-building, essential-supplies distribution, and education support programs to underserved communities. According to its 2025 Impact Report, the organization claims to have transformed more than 15,000 lives cumulatively over 30+ years of operation. Operating technology is minimal — the organization is not technology-focused and its core stack consists of a website, social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok), a podcast distributed via Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Spotify, and Network for Good for donation processing.

Hearts in Motion funds its programs through three revenue streams: individual donations processed via Network for Good, volunteer trip fees (pricing not publicly disclosed; prospective participants must inquire directly), and proceeds from the Hearts in Motion Resale Shoppe, a physical retail store in Schererville, IN that sells donated clothing, housewares, and furniture. Volunteer coordination is decentralized through dedicated state contacts in Indiana (headquarters), Kentucky, Nevada, and Wisconsin. The organization has no parent company, no institutional funding rounds, no subsidiaries, and no disclosed partnerships or alliances.

Name

Hearts in Motion

Legal name

Hearts in Motion

Website

https://heartsinmotion.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Hearts in Motion is a U.S. nonprofit founded in 1995 that recruits individual volunteers for short-term service trips to Guatemala, delivering medical, dental, therapy, home-building, and education programs to underserved communities, funded by donations, trip fees, and a resale shop.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Humanitarian Aid Services

NAICS

Emergency and Other Relief Services (62423), Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230), Business, Professional, Labor, Political, and Similar Organizations (8139)

akta.pro primary industry

Disaster Relief & Humanitarian Aid Volunteering (EDAIAGAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Humanitarian Health & Emergency Medical Relief NGOs (HLAJAKAE), International & Local Implementing NGOs (HLAJAKAD), Refugee, IDP & Migration Humanitarian Assistance (BPAGAAAH)

Keywords

• Volunteer service trips
• Humanitarian aid programs
• Nonprofit organization
• Medical mission trips
• Community development services

Headquarters

HQ city

Munster, Indiana

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Donations: Accepts general donations through Network for Good platform to support program operations
2. Resale Shoppe: Operates a resale shop selling donated clothing, housewares, and furniture with proceeds supporting programs
3. Volunteer Trip Fees: Participants pay for service trips that include medical care, home building, and education support

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Hearts in Motion is a nonprofit humanitarian organization that organizes short-term volunteer service trips to Guatemala and beyond, connecting individual volunteers with underserved communities to deliver medical care, dental care, physical/occupational/speech therapy, home building, essential supplies distribution, and education support. The organization also operates a Resale Shoppe in Schererville, Indiana, selling donated clothing, housewares, and furniture to fund its programs.

Product overview

Hearts in Motion operates as a non-profit organization offering short-term volunteer service trips focused on healthcare and community development. The portfolio consists of volunteer service trips as the primary offering, supplemented by direct service programs including medical care, dental care, therapy services, home building, essential supplies distribution, and education support. An auxiliary retail operation (Resale Shoppe) generates fundraising revenue. The organization has been serving communities for over 30 years, primarily operating in Guatemala with domestic volunteer opportunities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Hearts in Motion Resale Shoppe: A resale shop offering donated and new clothing, plus housewares and furniture, operated as a fundraising mechanism for the organization.

Quantifiable outcome

• 15,000+ lives transformed

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Esperança: Nonprofit delivering medical and surgical volunteer mission trips to Latin America with comparable short-trip volunteer structure and healthcare-delivery focus in underserved communities.
• Amigos for Christ: Faith-rooted nonprofit running volunteer trips to Nicaragua focused on nutrition, clean water, and education; comparable in faith-adjacent volunteer-trip model, target demographic, and community-development programming.
• International Volunteer HQ (IVHQ): Major volunteer-travel platform offering fee-based trips across many countries including Guatemala; competes for the same paying individual volunteers seeking service trips in Central America.
• Volunteers for Peace: Nonprofit that curates short-term, low-cost international volunteer trips with community-service orientations; comparable in volunteer-driven, trip-fee revenue model and individual-volunteer target market.
• Cross-Cultural Solutions: Runs fee-based international volunteer trips targeting health, education, and community projects in the Global South, directly comparable in target customer (individual paying volunteers), program verticals, and trip-based revenue model.
• Global Volunteers: Organizes short-term volunteer service trips focused on health, education, and community development in developing countries, with a similar faith-adjacent, individual-volunteer-driven model and comparable program mix.
• MEDICO: Faith-based nonprofit organizing volunteer medical and dental mission trips to Central America; directly comparable to Hearts in Motion's medical/dental service model and target geography.
• Medical Missionaries: Volunteer-driven organization providing medical care and community development in Haiti and the Dominican Republic; comparable as a small faith-rooted nonprofit running short-term medical volunteer trips in developing countries.

Broad incumbents

• Project HOPE: Large-scale international health NGO delivering medical services and health-worker training in underserved communities; overlaps with Hearts in Motion's medical, women's health, and therapy programming at much greater scale and geographic breadth.
• Habitat for Humanity: The dominant home-building nonprofit with established volunteer build-trip infrastructure across multiple geographies; Hearts in Motion's home-building program overlaps directly with Habitat's volunteer build model at a much smaller scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/himheartsinmotion
• Instagraminstagram.com/heartsinmotion
• TikToktiktok.com/@heartsinmotion1
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hearts-in-motion

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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