Ohio · Nonprofit
Love For Our Elders
Love For Our Elders (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,911 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($51,552). 3 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
- $110k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $88k
- Net assets
- $305k
What Love For Our Elders does
Mission
To alleviate social isolation among older adults through handwritten letters and intergenerational connections.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Letters of Love: Weve facilitated hundreds of thousands of notes of kindness and encouragement to older adults experiencing isolation offering them meaningful emotional support and building a bridge of connection across generations.
$2,952 spent50% of program spendingCampus chapters: We empower students to make a meaningful impact by forming local chapters where they write letters to older adults and volunteer in local senior communities. Weve grown to 90 across high schools and colleges.
$557 spent9% of program spendingDear Elder Mailbox: Letter-writing and drop-off stations in libraries local businesses and schools delivered by volunteers to local senior communities. Weve established 31 and counting.
$2,436 spent41% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,945.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $136k to $150k (+10%).
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.
92% of Love For Our Elders’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jacob Cramer
Board Chairperson and Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $17k.
3 of 12 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 For Our Elders’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 For Our Elders leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 For Our Elders.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 85% · 2021 81% · 2022 97% · 2023 57% — 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
20% of Love For Our Elders's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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 For Our Elders'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 $26k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k 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 For Our Elders has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Love For Our Elders
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.
Public support
95%
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 For Our Elders: 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 For Our Elders?
- Love For Our Elders (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,911 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($51,552). 3 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 For Our Elders have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $87,911 in grants to Love For Our Elders, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Love For Our Elders?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $51,552 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Love For Our Elders 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 2021–2025), 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