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Peace Love & Joy Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Peace Love & Joy Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$33kEducation$21kArts & Culture$21kInternational$7kCivil Rights$4kFood & Nutrition$3kCommunity Improvement$3kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$106k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS$7,160
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$6,000
CLIFTON INSTITUTE$5,000
YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FEMINIST PRESS: $2k → 17%INSTITUTE OF WORLD AFFAIRS: $5k → 14%PIEDMONT FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%PERSEPHONE PRODUCTIONS: $3k → 6%THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $8k → 6%SHARE FOOD NETWORK CATHOLIC: $2k → 11%FEMINIST PRESS: $500 → 17%INSTITUTE OF WORLD AFFAIRS: $2k → 14%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $6k → 6%YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS: $5k → 17%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $5k → 6%WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS: $7k → 14%THE PIEDMONT ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL: $3k → 6%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%THE PIEDMONT ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL: $3k → 6%WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $5k → 14%THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $2k → 6%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%CLIFTON INSTITUTE: $5k → 6%BBAR: $3k → 14%CLIFTON INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: $500 → 6%NATIONAL IRANIAN AMERICAN COUNCIL: $1k → 14%FAQUIER EDUCATION FARM: $500 → 6%THE ARC BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER: $3k → 14%CLIFTON INSTITUTE: $500 → 6%BULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY: $500 → 6%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.
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68k · 7 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$68k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+33%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalOther
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

  • TP
    THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +108%
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +14%
  • TC
    THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $6k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • WP
    WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +33%
  • PP
    PERSEPHONE PRODUCTIONS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -82%
  • PF
    PIEDMONT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
3
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
6
Institute for Experiential Learning Inc

The mission of the washington internship institute is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development through individually tailored, quality internships and challenging academic coursework that take full advantage…

Education
7
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
8
Washington Monthly Institute

Dedicated to increasing public knowledge through washington monthly magazine and website www.washingtonmonthly.com published since 1969, the print magazine is the country's most important watchdog of american government, focusing on what's…

Social Science
9
Allbritton Journalism Institute

Allbritton journalism institute aims to train a new generation of non-partisan political reporters from diverse backgrounds to produce high-quality, fact-based journalism.

Education
10
Washington National Opera

The mission of the washington national opera is to advise, support and oversee the continued artistic quality and impact of the washington national opera at the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts.

Arts & Culture
11
Washington and Lee University

Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…

Education
12
Public Concern Foundation Inc

The public concern foundation is a non-partisan educational organization thatpromotes the values of independent media and free speech. the foundation publishes the washington spectator, a monthly digital newsletter on public affairs; hosts…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Performing Arts Society; the most unlike its peers is Bull Run Mountains Conservancy Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS: $7,160 · OtherWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTSINSTITUTE OF WORLD AFFAIRS: $7,000 · OtherINSTITUTE OF WORLD AFFAIRSTHE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC: $6,000 · OtherTHE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INCTHE FEMINIST PRESS INC: $2,500 · OtherTHE FEMINIST PRESS INCPIEDMONT FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherPIEDMONT FOUNDATIONSHARE FOOD NETWORK CATHOLIC: $2,000 · OtherSHARE FOOD NETWORK CATHOLIC+4 more: $1,650 · Other+4 moreTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $26,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUN…+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $21,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON PERF…YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG CONCERT A…PERSEPHONE PRODUCTIONS INC: $3,000 · Arts & CulturePERSEPHONE PROD…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $500 · Arts & CultureBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $5,500 · Community ImprovementNational Iranian American Council: $1,000 · International
Other$28,310Environment$26,500Education$21,000Arts & Culture$13,500Community Improvement$5,500International$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPERSEPHONE PRODUCTIONS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FEMINIST PRESS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNational Iranian American Council: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Peace Love & Joy Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peace Love & Joy Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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