Massachusetts · Private foundation
Champions of Love Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $22M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 188
- Grants FY2024
- 188
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,050,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 128 to 188
- FY2022 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 29
- Total assets, FY2024
- $58M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 52% of the organizations Champions of Love Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 184 | $22M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 188 | $22M | 52% |
| FY2022 | 128 | $14M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Epiphany School Inc | $6,885,000 | 3 | 34% |
| Love Does Parade | $5,719,345 | 3 | 80% |
| Thistle Farms Inc | $5,321,694 | 3 | 18% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $5,000,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Homeboy Industries | $5,000,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Roxbury Presbyterian Church Social Impact Center Inc | $2,650,000 | 3 | 82% |
| Center for Contemplative Justice | $2,021,486 | 3 | 48% |
| Gods Pantry | $1,850,000 | 2 | 44% |
| Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc | $1,600,250 | 3 | 1% |
| Proyecto Pastoral | $1,100,000 | 3 | 8% |
Show all 239 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Champions of Love Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Yawkey Foundation II · Barr Foundation · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Champions of Love Foundation Inc
- How much does Champions of Love Foundation Inc give?
- Champions of Love Foundation Inc reported 188 grants totaling $22,386,377 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 128 and 188 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
- What does Champions of Love Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Education (19%), Crime & Legal (11%).
- Who are Champions of Love Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: The Epiphany School Inc ($6.9M), Love Does Parade ($5.7M), Thistle Farms Inc ($5.3M).
- Does Champions of Love Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Champions of Love Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Champions of Love Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
- Where is Champions of Love Foundation Inc based?
- Champions of Love Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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