Tennessee · Nonprofit
LOVE CRAFT ATHENS INC
LOVE CRAFT ATHENS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,519 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($139,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $351k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $249k
- Net assets
- $76k
What Love Craft Athens Inc does
Mission
Love.craft athens is a non-profit organization that serves adults with developmental disabilities. We aim to educate and integrate adults with developmental disabilities by facilitating meaningful, productive, and integrated opportunities. We work with the local community and businesses to educate them on how to engage in customized employment for our crew.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Daily art studioour daily work studio consists of our pottery and art program. This allows adults with developmental disabilities (our crew) to have an outlet for creativity and to learn job skills by making and selling pottery. We assess individuals' skills and interests in the studio and create modifications for future employment opportunities. We offer year round programming.music programour music program offers a variety of opportunities for some of our crew to express themselves through music and movement. Many of our crew have special interests in music and dance and music therapy has proven benefits for improving focus, communication, and self-determination. This program works on empowering our crew to express themselves to find their voice, providing important tools for them to identify with our athens community. We also have an all-abilities band, the love.craft band who performs in the community multiple times each year.customized employmentwe facilitate customized community opportunities for our crew. These integrated opportunities include paid employment, volunteering, or assisting them with being an entrepreneur. We offer support to supervisors to ensure successful…
$196,550 spent$15,532 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $196,550.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $15k to $54k (+263%).
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: 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of LOVE CRAFT ATHENS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Katherine Ostenson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $84 → $31k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 CRAFT ATHENS 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 CRAFT ATHENS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CRAFT ATHENS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 80% — 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.
Where its funders are
80% of LOVE CRAFT ATHENS 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 $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $198k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 CRAFT ATHENS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,448 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LOVE CRAFT ATHENS 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 CRAFT ATHENS 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 CRAFT ATHENS INC?
- LOVE CRAFT ATHENS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,519 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($139,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOVE CRAFT ATHENS INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $248,519 in grants to LOVE CRAFT ATHENS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOVE CRAFT ATHENS INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $139,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOVE CRAFT ATHENS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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