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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 FY2024still arriving
188
Grants FY2024still arriving
29
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$15MEducation$11MCrime & Legal$6.7MYouth Development$6.0MCommunity Improvement$4.3MInternational$4.2MReligion$3.2MFood & Nutrition$2.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 188 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k113 grants · $2.2M
  • $50k–250k51 grants · $4.3M
  • $250k+16 grants · $16M
$30,000
Median grant
29
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC$2,050,000
THISTLE FARMS INC$2,021,694
LOVE DOES PARADE$2,009,345
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$2,000,000
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES$2,000,000
ROXBURY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOCIAL IMPACT CENTER$1,100,000
HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM$1,000,000
SAINT CECILIAS PARISH SCHOOL$700,000
CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE$675,486
PROYECTO PASTORAL$500,000
HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL$500,000
JOSEPH HOUSE INC$275,000
HOMIES UNIDOS$250,000
BOSTONS HIGHER GROUND$250,000
RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL$250,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $5.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $25k → 11%EKVNV-YEFOLECVLKE: $75k → 18%NOW I AM KNOWN FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%THE NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%HOPE HEALS: $60k → 13%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $15k → 8%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $25k → 11%EKVN-YEFOLECV: $50k → 18%HOPE HEALS: $30k → 13%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $15k → 8%EKVN-YEFOLECV: $50k → 18%HOPE HEALS: $25k → 13%YOU BELONG: $30k → 9%A FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE INC: $35k → 16%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $150k → 11%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $30k → 28%YOU BELONG: $30k → 9%A FAITH THAT DOES JUSTICE INC: $35k → 16%NORTH COAST CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $25k → 11%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $30k → 28%YOU BELONG: $25k → 9%YMCA GREATER BOSTON: $25k → 16%VOLUNTEER VENTURES MA INC: $25k → 8%VOLUNTEER VENTURES MA INC: $25k → 8%CENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR: $100k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $500k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $500k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $100k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $25k → 14%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $500k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $500k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $1.1M → 16%ONE BY ONE PROJECT: $40k → 8%ONE BY ONE PROJECT: $30k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $500k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $50k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $25k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE: $100k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $25k → 16%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $40k → 16%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $85k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $50k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $35k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $20k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $100k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $60k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $50k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52M · 134 repeat orgs$7.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

134 repeat relationships: 111 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 73 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

134
91

Total granted

$52M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+12%

Still filing today

81%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +114% · 34% of their budget
  • TF
    THISTLE FARMS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +8%
  • HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TITUS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +156%
  • FC
    FIRST CHURCH IN CAMBRIDGE CONGREGATIONAL UCC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • VF
    VIETAID FBO WORDS AS WORLDS
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Transition House Inc

Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…

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2
Project Hope Boston Inc

Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…

Human Services
3
Sanctuary Place Inc

Sanctuary place is a first-of-its-kind program offering safe, stable housing and comprehensive wraparound services for survivors of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation. in partnership with the planning office for urban affairs, we…

Housing & Shelter
4
Casa Esperanza Inc

To empower individuals and families to recover from addiction, trauma, mental illness and other chronic medical conditions; overcome homelessness; and achieve health and wellness through comprehensive, integrated care.

Health
5
Braveworks

Our vision is to be a catalyst for god-inspired transformation through artisan enterprise, leading to abundant & purposeful lives. our mission is to empower women & families overcoming trauma & injustice, bridging the gap from pain to…

Human Services
6
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…

Youth Development
7
Covenant House

In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…

Human Services
8
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc

Bridge over troubled waters provides effective and innovative services to homeless, at-risk, and runaway youth, helps youth avoid a lifetime of dependency on social services, guides youth towards self-sufficiency, and enables youth to…

Health
9
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
10
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
11
Jeremiah Program

Disrupt the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children two generations at a time.

Housing & Shelter
12
Covenant House New Orleans

Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Ida B Wells Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

225 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 225 of the 300 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
220/225
Grantees still filing
142/225
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THISTLE FARMS INC: $5,321,694 · OtherTHISTLE FARMS INCSAINT CECILIAS PARISH SCHOOL: $1,700,000 · OtherSAINT CECILIAS PARISH SCHOOLHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $1,000,000 · OtherTHE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH: $700,000 · Other+120 more: $10,779,540 · Other+120 moreLOVE DOES PARADE: $5,719,345 · Human ServicesLOVE DOES PARADEBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $1,600,250 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR…Proyecto Pastoral: $1,100,000 · Human ServicesProyecto PastoralST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesST BONIFACE HAITI FOUN…+26 more: $1,937,500 · Human Services+26 moreTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $6,885,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL IN…ROXBURY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOCIAL IMPACT CENTER INC: $2,650,000 · EducationROXBURY PRESBYTERIAN C…+19 more: $1,790,000 · Education+19 moreHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $5,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY IND…+7 more: $645,000 · Youth Development+7 moreEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUST…AGAPIST VENTURES: $200,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $170,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE: $2,021,486 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $101,500 · International+4 more: $147,000 · InternationalGODS PANTRY: $1,850,000 · Food & NutritionSPOONFULS: $95,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $105,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$19,501,234Human Services$11,357,095Education$11,325,000Youth Development$5,645,000Civil Rights$5,370,000International$2,269,986Food & Nutrition$2,050,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $6,885,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetLOVE DOES PARADE: $5,719,345 over 3y, 80% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $5,321,694 over 3y, 18% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $5,000,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetROXBURY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOCIAL IMPACT CENTER INC: $2,650,000 over 3y, 82% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE: $2,021,486 over 3y, 48% of budgetGODS PANTRY: $1,850,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $1,600,250 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetProyecto Pastoral: $1,100,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH: $700,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetJoseph House Inc: $625,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT INC: $350,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetBOSTON'S HIGHER GROUND INC: $300,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetVALIANT CROSS ACADEMY: $300,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOMIES UNIDOS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $210,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJohn M Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and Development Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC: $200,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $185,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP: $185,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC: $175,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $175,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSARASOTA AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL COALITION INC: $175,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBETHEL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $150,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $150,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetRise Up Industries: $150,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNEW YORK SUN WORKS INC: $140,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetHope Heals Inc: $115,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $101,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TITUS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCenter for Spiritual Imagination Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetBUILD HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HEART HOMES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAYNI INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetThe Bryan Allen Stevenson School of Excellence: $100,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetThe Upward Project: $100,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetWINTER WALK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Liberty Mutual Foundation IncMA54.8× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Champions of Love Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Champions of Love Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 340%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Hopewell Inc: 83% of income from government
  • Groundworks Collaborative Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc: 43% of income from government
  • On the Rise Inc: 39% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Children's Services of Roxbury Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Brookview House Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Villages Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp: 32% of income from government
  • Health Care for All Inc: 29% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Building Pathways Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Ellis Early Learning Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Sojourner House Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Action for Boston Community Development Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Tech Goes Home Incorporated: 10% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Kitchen Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Codman Square Health Center Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Citysprouts Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc: 4% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Shelter Music Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston's Higher Ground Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Grub Street Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jean Appolon Expressions Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Possible Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
34get no government money at all
47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Champions of Love Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 300 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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