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The Lovey Project 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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$314
Median grant
7
States reached
$399k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Community House$3,985
Hephzibah Childrens Association$2,750
Operation Paperback Inc$1,280
Tryall Fund Jamaica$1,200
Mercy Home for Children Inc$1,000
Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators$500
Child Mind Institute Inc$314
Mountain View Elementary$280
DuPage PADS Inc$257
HCS Family Services$250
Face the Future Foundation$100
Big Five Tanzania Ltd$100
Hinsdale United Methodist Church$60
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Tryall Fund Jamaica: $1k → 11%Community House: $4k → 7%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.

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 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
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

2
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
3
The Methodist Home for Children Inc

To build upon the social, physical, emotional and spiritual strengths of children, youth and families and to affirm their worth.

Human Services
4
Children's Home Association of Illinois

To help the kids and families who need it most.

Human Services
5
Community Connections for Children Inc

Ccc connects families to resources, collaborates with early childhood education programs, and engages with the community to create a foundation for children to be successful in life.

Human Services
6
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
7
Childrens Community Clinic

Provide pediatric care to underserved communities

8
Children's Advocates for Change

Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…

Human Services
9
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
10
Childhaven

Childhaven partners with parents and community to strengthen families, prevent childhood trauma and its damaging effects, and prepare children for a lifetime of well-being.

11
Child Community Services

Provide mental health services including individual and familytherapy to low-income underserved populations. 100% of our clients areon medicaid.

Health
12
Child Care Resource & Referral Network

The CCRRN is committed to supporting families, child care providers, and employers in their pursuit of quality child care and family support services that are both available and affordable. To this end,the CCRRN strives to assure

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community House and the most unlike its peers is Face the Future Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION — $2,750 · OtherHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATIONOPERATION PAPERBACK INC — $1,280 · OtherOPERATION PAPERBACK INCMercy Home for Children Inc — $1,000 · OtherMercy Home for Children IncMOUNTAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY PTA — $280 · Other+2 more — $160 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE — $3,985 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY HOUSETryall Fund Jamaica — $1,200 · Human ServicesTryall Fund JamaicaSociety of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators — $500 · Arts & CultureCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $314 · HealthFace the Future Foundation — $100 · HealthDUPAGE PADS INC — $257 · Housing & ShelterHCS FAMILY SERVICES — $250 · Community Improvement
Other$5,470Human Services$5,185Arts & Culture$500Health$414Housing & Shelter$257Community Improvement$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE — $3,985 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION — $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY PTA — $280 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDUPAGE PADS INC — $257 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHCS FAMILY SERVICES — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFace the Future Foundation — $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA7.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lovey Project 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report 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, 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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Lovey Project Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Lovey Project 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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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