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ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC

ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,407 to it, the largest being THE STONE FAMILY ADOPTION ASSISTANCE FUND INC ($140,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.2M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$380k
Net assets
$7.2M
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Adoptions With Love Inc does

Mission

To provide prospective adoptive parents and birth parents with professional, sensitive and confidential services to facilitate successful placements that meet the individual needs of all members of the adoption triad.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Adoption programs-activities and counseling for birthmothers homestudies and post placement services for adoptive parents and placement and adoption of minors.

    $2,299,210 spent$3,215,071 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,299,210.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($5.0M)2018 Revenue 104 ($2.1M) Expenses 110 ($2.0M) Net assets 98 ($5.0M)2019 Revenue 111 ($2.3M) Expenses 111 ($2.0M) Net assets 116 ($5.8M)2020 Revenue 130 ($2.7M) Expenses 120 ($2.1M) Net assets 126 ($6.3M)2021 Revenue 111 ($2.3M) Expenses 117 ($2.1M) Net assets 134 ($6.7M)2022 Revenue 98 ($2.0M) Expenses 130 ($2.3M) Net assets 107 ($5.4M)2023 Revenue 118 ($2.4M) Expenses 122 ($2.2M) Net assets 114 ($5.7M)2024 Revenue 137 ($2.8M) Expenses 128 ($2.3M) Net assets 129 ($6.5M)2025 Revenue 159 ($3.2M) Expenses 142 ($2.5M) Net assets 143 ($7.2M)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (142)Net assets (143)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.9M to $5.5M (−20%).

$5.1M
$5.0M
$5.9M
$6.4M
$6.9M
$5.5M
$5.8M
$6.6M
$7.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

1% of ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$251k
’17
$148k
’18
$277k
’19
$507k
’20
$176k
’21
−$337k
’22
$225k
’23
$507k
’24
$700k
’25
6.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Christopher Counihan

Chairman & director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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No longer listed·04000010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $37k → $76k.

6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC.

37%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 58% · 2019 54% · 2020 69% · 2021 66% · 2022 59% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

38% of ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

59% of ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $156k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
RI
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $224k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC

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In Massachusetts

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC?
ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,407 to it, the largest being THE STONE FAMILY ADOPTION ASSISTANCE FUND INC ($140,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $380,407 in grants to ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC?
THE STONE FAMILY ADOPTION ASSISTANCE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing