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The Love Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2023
28
Grants FY2023
10
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Education$39kArts & Culture$29kInternational$5kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$2kHuman Services$2kEnvironment$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$140
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL$2,500
BARNARD COLLEGE FUND$1,100
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE$1,033
LARKSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$1,000
KENTFILED SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$928
AMERICASCORES$515
INT'L RESCUE COMM$503
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$500
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY$500
Individual grant recipient$389
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY$250
CARE USA$157
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE$140
WWWTCLFORG$105
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $978) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CNETER: $350 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $228 → 17%SPENCE CHAPIN: $100 → 17%SPENCE CHAPIN: $50 → 17%SPENCE CHAPIN: $50 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DE
AR
SC
DC
GA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$61k · 40 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2023, 22 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
69

Total granted

$61k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+20%

Still filing today

57%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LT
    LARK THEATER
    3× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +32%
  • RH
    REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +7%
  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY ART
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • RM
    Ring Mountain Day School
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -100%
  • MV
    MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
10
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
11
Boston Architectural College

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

12
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Center for Open Recovery Dba Open Recovery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsFood Pantries & AssistanceYouth Ice Hockey ProgramsYouth Sports Booster Organi…Child and Family ServicesPublic Library SupportEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Pregnancy Support ServicesLand Conservation Organizat…Early Childhood Education C…Professional Ballet Compani…Animal Rescue and AdoptionPublic School District Foun…Independent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%48%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,505

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 120 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/59
Grantees still filing
46/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BARNARD COLLEGE FUND — $14,967 · OtherBARNARD COLLEGE FUNDTHE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCH — $7,000 · OtherTHE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHYALE UNIVERSITY ART — $5,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY ARTRing Mountain Day School — $2,000 · Other+76 more — $27,502 · Other+76 moreREDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $4,650 · EducationREDWOOD HIGH SCHOO…WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $2,500 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSIT…MARIN ACADEMY — $2,500 · EducationMARIN ACADEMYTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL — $2,500 · EducationTHE LOOMIS INSTITU…KENTFIELD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $1,428 · EducationKENTFIELD SCHOOLS …+5 more — $1,530 · Education+5 moreLARK THEATER — $9,256 · Arts & CultureLARK THEATERMarin Theatre Company — $1,250 · Arts & CultureMarin Theatre Co…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $871 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUS…Project Bandaloop — $500 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $1,350 · Arts & Culture+7 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,130 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $683 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $511 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $424 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $204 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $190 · InternationalAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $150 · International+1 more — $125 · InternationalWestchester Land Trust Inc — $500 · EnvironmentTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION — $265 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $261 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $245 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE — $70 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $50 · EnvironmentLARKSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Community ImprovementMOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER — $350 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE — $228 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $200 · Human ServicesSPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN — $200 · Human Services
Other$56,469Education$15,108Arts & Culture$13,227International$4,417Environment$1,391Community Improvement$1,000Human Services$978

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLARK THEATER — $9,256 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $4,650 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN ACADEMY — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,130 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRing Mountain Day School — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENTFIELD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $1,428 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMarin Theatre Company — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLARKSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFeeding America — $960 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $871 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILO FOUNDATION — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $683 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReed Schools Foundation — $518 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $511 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Bandaloop — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Open Recovery DBA Open Recovery — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $424 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS Network — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $285 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION — $265 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $261 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marin Football Club — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $245 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $228 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $204 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN — $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $190 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $180 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPARK — $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $129 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTTABLE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds LARK THEATER
  • Who funds REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MARIN ACADEMY
  • Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC
  • Who funds Ring Mountain Day School
  • Who funds KENTFIELD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Marin Theatre Company
  • Who funds LARKSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds THE MILO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Reed Schools Foundation
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc
  • Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds Project Bandaloop

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marin Community FoundationCA25.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Fremont Group Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Love Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The Love Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 120 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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