Missouri · Nonprofit
LOVE THE LOU
LOVE THE LOU (Missouri) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,547,814 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($629,440). 12 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.
Against its field
LOVE THE LOU is better cushioned than half of the 4,197 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,197 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commissionlocalportfolio match
- Area Resources for Community & Human Serviceslocalportfolio match
- The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Councillocalportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $351k.
9 of 25 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 THE LOU’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 THE LOU leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 THE LOU.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 29% · 2021 34% · 2022 66% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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
22% of LOVE THE LOU's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
80% of LOVE THE LOU'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 $306k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 25 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commissionlocalportfolio matchMO · funds 156 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Area Resources for Community & Human Serviceslocalportfolio matchMO · funds 45 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Councillocalportfolio matchMO · funds 35 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Norman J Stupp Foundationshared funderslocalMO · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · funds 51 organizations near you
- Community Impact Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Louis Service Bureau Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Suburban Journals Old Newsboy's Fund for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- G Andrew Franz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chiron Community Giving Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Portland Opportunities Indust Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harlene & Marvin Wool Foundationshared fundersMO · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LOVE THE LOU
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOVE THE LOU: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LOVE THE LOU?
- LOVE THE LOU (Missouri) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,547,814 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($629,440). 12 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 THE LOU have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,547,814 in grants to LOVE THE LOU, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOVE THE LOU?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $629,440 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOVE THE LOU find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 25funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing