North Carolina · Nonprofit
LOVE OUT LOUD
LOVE OUT LOUD (North Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,609,619 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,041,324). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Love Out Loud does
Mission
Love Out Loud connects and mobilizes people and resources to transform our city with the love of jesus. Love Out Loud is a network of churches, groups, and individuals living out christ's call to love our neighbor. Love Out Loud partners with anyone working for the flourishing of our community-including well over 150 faith-groups, 300 nonprofits and other community organizations, as well as several hundred businesses. In the process, Love Out Loud works to find alignment across all of these efforts in order to maximize community resources while mobilizing thousands of volunteers in their unique passions and skills.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Aces nourishing forsyth: the a,b,c's of aces (adverse childhood experiences) is a collaboration of community groups and grassroots organizations whose goal is shared knowledge, language, and understandings and community-led research. This project is designed to create and implement an education and advocacy campaign in forsyth county to create awareness around aces to ensure that we take steps to support healthier children, families and community stakeholders to lessen immediate and long-term harm of aces and to promote restoration by achieving equity and justice through bringing school, community, and home in alignment.
$210,162 spent18% of program spendingSchool of love school of love directs cohorts of approximately 30 particiapnts. The participants come from denominationally diverse churches in winston-salem, split equally between predominantly white congregations and congregations of color. The cohorts are committed to establish a rhythm of life together, which requires commitments to: (1) common rhythms of love, such as common prayer confession, sabbath, education, justice, breaking bread meals, and more (2) personalized rhythms of love, and (3) intercultural life together.
$220,682 spent19% of program spendingLit city lit city's youth development initiatives seek to build in solidarity with under-served winston-salem teens from the "classroom to the corner, from the court to the concert". Lit city seeks to accomplish this through leadership development, mentoring/advocacy, and urban artistic expression. Lit city partners with several schools to lead after-school groups that help students explore questions of identity, purpose, destiny, and social consciousness. In the summer, lit city sponsors and leads one of winston- salem's nine freedom schools, a six-week summer program designed to increase literacy, self-esteem, social-emotional skills, a love of learning, and civic engagement.
$125,925 spent11% of program spendingChristmas for the city: christmas for the city began in 2008 and is a free community event. In 2023 (our sixteenth year), we partnered with 70 churches, 95 nonprofits, and 107 businesses. To make it all possible, approximately 1000+ volunteers hosted the free christmas party and welcomed 10,000+ people from winston- salem, nc and surrounding communities. The event has consistently convened a wide network of multi-sectoral partners and welcomed people across wide generational, racial and socio-economic lines. Fearless winston-salem: fearless winston-salem is a collaborative collective, social community and mutual aid fund for and by folks in winston-salem. Mutual aid support assists community members with rent, utilities, groceries, medical payments and other needs. Gift mart: gift mart is a program in december of each year that allows families to shop for new and like new toys, clothes and other gifts for their children for christmas. These items are donated by community members and set up where parents or guardians can shop for any children in their home under the age of 21 years old at reduced prices, allowing them the dignity of purchasing gifts for their families. In 2023,…
$622,930 spent$6,808 earned by the program53% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,179,699.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $174k to $1.5M (+745%).
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: 2020 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of LOVE OUT LOUD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $8k → $287k.
11 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 OUT LOUD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
LOVE OUT LOUD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
59% 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 OUT LOUD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 67% · 2019 82% · 2020 38% · 2021 53% · 2022 19% · 2023 23% — 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
47% of LOVE OUT LOUD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
55% of LOVE OUT LOUD'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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 OUT LOUD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LOVE OUT LOUD
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Love Out Loud Yadkin · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOVE OUT LOUD: 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 OUT LOUD?
- LOVE OUT LOUD (North Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,609,619 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,041,324). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOVE OUT LOUD have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $3,609,619 in grants to LOVE OUT LOUD, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOVE OUT LOUD?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,041,324 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOVE OUT LOUD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 33 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing