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LOCKS OF LOVE INC

LOCKS OF LOVE INC (Florida) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,274 to it, the largest being CHERESE MARI LAULHERE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$487k
Funders on record
35
Grants received
$287k
Net assets
$8.5M
12/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Locks of Love Inc does

Mission

To provide custom made hair prosthetics to disadvantaged children to age of twenty-one, who suffered hair loss as a result of various medical conditions.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Locks of love provided 73 wigs/hairpieces to children suffering from hair loss. Locks of love continues the blog and facebook page for recipients and donors, as well as its instagram account and twitter("x") page.

    $636,282 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $636,282.

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 ($749k) Expenses 100 ($765k) Net assets 100 ($6.1M)2018 Revenue 69 ($513k) Expenses 95 ($725k) Net assets 98 ($6.0M)2019 Revenue 86 ($640k) Expenses 99 ($761k) Net assets 100 ($6.2M)2020 Revenue 68 ($513k) Expenses 84 ($644k) Net assets 102 ($6.3M)2021 Revenue 126 ($946k) Expenses 85 ($648k) Net assets 116 ($7.1M)2022 Revenue 81 ($608k) Expenses 78 ($594k) Net assets 117 ($7.2M)2023 Revenue 113 ($846k) Expenses 85 ($653k) Net assets 120 ($7.4M)2024 Revenue 208 ($1.6M) Expenses 78 ($601k) Net assets 134 ($8.3M)2025 Revenue 65 ($487k) Expenses 95 ($730k) Net assets 139 ($8.5M)
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Revenue (65)Expenses (95)Net assets (139)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 2023 to 2024, from $7.4M to $8.3M (+12%).

$6.2M
$6.0M
$6.2M
$6.3M
$7.2M
$7.2M
$7.4M
$8.3M
$8.5M
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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

53% of LOCKS OF LOVE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$17k
’17
−$212k
’18
−$121k
’19
−$131k
’20
$298k
’21
$14k
’22
$193k
’23
$956k
’24
−$243k
’25
6.1
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.

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Listed878778765
Joined·+0+1+1+0+1+1+0+0
No longer listed·10200211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $47k → $14k.

5 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 LOCKS OF LOVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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

LOCKS OF LOVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

49% 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 LOCKS OF LOVE INC.

17%
largest funder
44%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 61% · 2019 66% · 2020 73% · 2021 40% · 2022 39% · 2023 71% — 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

16% of LOCKS OF LOVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

LOCKS OF LOVE INC draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 16 states in all.

ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
DE
AZ
NC
TX
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

LOCKS OF LOVE INC's revenue fell 35% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−50% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like LOCKS OF LOVE INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 11%Fundraising 2%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 28 states

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
MS
AL
GA
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds LOCKS OF LOVE INC?
LOCKS OF LOVE INC (Florida) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,274 to it, the largest being CHERESE MARI LAULHERE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LOCKS OF LOVE INC have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $287,274 in grants to LOCKS OF LOVE INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LOCKS OF LOVE INC?
CHERESE MARI LAULHERE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LOCKS OF LOVE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 35 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