Ohio · Nonprofit
LOVE AKRON INC
LOVE AKRON INC (Ohio) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $905,814 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($308,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $223k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $906k
- Net assets
- $8k
What Love Akron Inc does
Mission
We are a christian-based organization serving as an intersectional hub, dedicated to unifying the colors, cultures, and congregations to see greater akron thrive. Guided by our faith, we actively seek to influence positive change by connecting, convening, and collaborating with change- makers to make a collective impact.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grief and emotional struggles touch nearly every family at some point. Through the grief recovery method, an eight-week course, and mental health first aid training, love akron equips people with practical tools to process loss support others and build resilience. These programs not only heal individuals they strengthen families workplaces and the wider community.
$65,624 spent34% of program spendingThe 306 initiative raises awareness for foster and respite care families, encouraging individuals and churches to step forward and make a difference. The locker room experience helps students grow as leaders in school and equips them to lead in their communities after graduation. In these ways love akron nurtures both young lives and the adults who guide them.
$62,963 spent32% of program spendingOnecity serves as the church's lens into the community and the community's lens into the church. By convening akron's christian faith leaders onecity encourages collaboration helps break down barriers and unites people around a shared love for the city. This progression demonstrates how faith when put into action can transform neighborhoods and strengthen the city as a whole.
$34,317 spent18% of program spendingUnited through love program
$31,857 spentof which $550 as grants16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $194,761.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $30k to $138k (+360%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 17% · 2024 20% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LOVE AKRON INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Daren Brake
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $69k → $116k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 LOVE AKRON 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
LOVE AKRON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
88% 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 LOVE AKRON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 66% · 2019 93% · 2020 65% · 2021 38% · 2022 37% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“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
33% of LOVE AKRON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
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
70% of LOVE AKRON 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 $270k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $636k 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.
Against its field
LOVE AKRON INC receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $906k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LOVE AKRON 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOVE AKRON INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOVE AKRON INC?
- LOVE AKRON INC (Ohio) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $905,814 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($308,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOVE AKRON INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $905,814 in grants to LOVE AKRON INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOVE AKRON INC?
- AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $308,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOVE AKRON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 25 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