California · Nonprofit
LOVE DEFINED
LOVE DEFINED (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $33,500 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($33,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $363k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $34k
- Net assets
- $-77845
What Love Defined does
Mission
To make grants and perform charitable activities by providing training and information on ministering to victims of trauma and violence as well as financial support, donated clothing, food and conducting conferences on marriage, parenting, leadership and self-development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Maintenance, support and provision given to the Love Defined school in Myanmar forthe purpose of helping underprivileged children as well as troubled teens and drug addicted individuals. This school is also used as a community center; feeding the community and serving those around them when able. Expenses included the cost of maintaining the facility,digging for a new well, leadership support, food, children camps, and community outreach support. Approx. 820 people benefitted
$68,083 spent22% of program spendingAdopt a family holiday and Birthday Giving was established to help families with holiday food and gift needs and school needs. This program was extended to include help with school needs, rent, and food. (Approx. 34 families benefitted - 1,512 people.)
$59,481 spent19% of program spending34 large educational and leadership training courses/conference were offered in theUSA, online, and abroad for the purpose of teaching on self-improvement, relationship success and improvement, leadership techniques and virtues. Included in this was personal mentorship help several times a week, one on one or in small groups as a followup to the conference or course. Approx. 2021 benefitted
$55,613 spent18% of program spendingLocal ministry and outreach in Southern California: 2 times a week small meetings offered for marriage support, community support and teaching on love, relationship and healing. These meetins include meals and educational materials.Daily intensive care offered one on one to those in crisis, this includes meals, encouragement and mentorship, and financial help if needed. Approximately 145 people benefitted.
$48,879 spent16% of program spendingOnline support (including monthly financial support as well as training) for twoorphanages (Home of Faith) and their leadership teams, and a College (BTCS) and itsleadership staff in Bangalore India. Expenses: 28731
$34,542 spent11% of program spendingFinancial, educational and leadership support to overseas native leaders in Myanmar and India. These leaders care for refugees, abandoned children, and at risk communities.
$30,594 spent10% of program spendingOne on One mentorship and leadership training - online, by phone and in person. Training others to teach about love, relationship and spiritual growth. Teaching and modeling for others how to lead groups and build communities.
$11,470 spent4% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $308,662.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $19k to $123k (+534%).
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.
0% of LOVE DEFINED’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 DEFINED’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.
Where its funders are
100% of LOVE DEFINED'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 DEFINED runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LOVE DEFINED
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 DEFINED: 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 DEFINED?
- LOVE DEFINED (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $33,500 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($33,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOVE DEFINED have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $33,500 in grants to LOVE DEFINED, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOVE DEFINED?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $33,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOVE DEFINED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 1 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