For Funders

HEART needs an institution because constitutional constraints, standards integrity, shared public infrastructure, fiscal independence, and continuity cannot be left to a product, temporary project, assessor, or market incentive. The Foundation centralizes those public-interest duties while bounded implementation, research, assurance, and regional work remain distributed.

The institutional thesis

HEART turns governance requirements into claims that can be scoped, evidenced, reviewed, challenged, corrected, and retired. The Heart AI Foundation stewards the shared layer: the Seven Axioms, HEART Standard, Profile architecture, professional and conformity controls, credential and Registry semantics, authoritative document status, open interoperability, independence, and succession.

It does not seek to become a regulator, universal assessor, product company, captive consultancy, franchise headquarters, or owner of every implementation. Divisions remain research-coupled domain stewards. Regional entities require explicit lawful recognition and delegated scope. Guardians and assurance functions require demonstrated competence, independence, authorization, and operational readiness.

Read the Institutional Thesis and Funder Positioning Paper.

Why catalytic capital matters

The shared public-interest layer must be resourced before earned-revenue activity can be treated as legitimate or reliable. It cannot depend on selling favorable outcomes, speculative certification volume, credential demand, Trust Credits, insurance benefits, or premature adoption claims.

Current fundable public work includes:

publication and document-control infrastructure for current and historical canon;
Source and Deployment Profile development with affected-source and affected-community participation;
evidence reviews and Domain Profile adaptation;
open reference implementations and interoperability testing;
method validation, comparison, null-result retention, and retirement;
Guardian competence, conduct, calibration, reliability, and assessment-practice infrastructure;
independent conformity, HVC, and Registry operational readiness;
complaints, appeals, correction, remedy, privacy, security, and continuity; and
public education and research access.

Capital follows readiness: entity and record readiness, constitutional core coverage, public-good delivery, recurring operations, assurance activation, and only then governed federation or scale. Passing one gate does not imply the next.

The funder compact

A grant or contribution may buy defined work, capacity, evidence, independent review, public outputs, and reporting. It cannot buy a favorable rule, assessment, credential, Registry state, research conclusion, standards vote, board privilege, exclusive public authority, portfolio preference, endorsement, or financial return.

The preferred execution unit is a bounded slice with one reviewable outcome, dependencies, acceptance evidence, and a stop condition. Larger blocks are composed of slices and are not represented as complete while constituent work remains unresolved.

Evidence and planning posture

The Foundation is registered in Oregon as a nonprofit public benefit corporation. Federal tax-exempt recognition and contribution deductibility must be confirmed through current official records or a determination letter; this page does not assert them.

Financial projections are planning scenarios, not promises. The current Pro Forma records $0 in revenue and $85 in formation outflows as of its August 15, 2026 evidence date. It does not evidence a grant, donation, program fee, payroll, investment, bank balance, or reserve. Current fiscal documents do not assume named funders, certification volume, Guardian growth, HVC market value, investor-style returns, or guaranteed adoption.

Dwell, EMPI House, HeartCore, and other related ventures are not the Foundation’s charitable program. They receive no preferential standards, Profile, method, assessment, credential, Registry, funding, staff-time, or public-endorsement treatment.

See Fiscal Independence, Governance, and Contact.