California · Nonprofit
PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC
PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,275,710 to it, the largest being THE MORF FOUNDATION ($1,950,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $577k
- Funders on record
- 81
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $650k
What Pablove Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of the pablove foundation is to invest in underfunded, cutting-edge pediatric cancer research, and to improve the lives of children living with cancer through the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Pablove shutterbugs is a participatory healing arts education program that teaches children living with cancer to develop their creative voice through the art of photography. Pablove offers a photography curriculum for children and teens living with cancer that includes an all-costs-paid introductory class and an advanced class, where students learn to use photography as a means to advocate for cancer research and explore their identities while living with pediatric cancer.our students find respite from the difficult routine of treatment as they focus on a fun new activity: learning about photography. Every pablove shutterbugs course culminates in a graduation and yearly student gallery show to celebrate our young photographers-with both in-person and virtual courses available in 2024. Print sales at pablove's gallery shows directly support the powered by pablove research grants program.beyond our in-person program in los angeles, pablove is also serving kids in 27 states nationwide through virtual classes-including a steadily growing number of students who participate directly from their hospital rooms. In total, pablove enrolled 185 kids in eight in-person and virtual…
$433,380 spent73% of program spendingPablove's powered by pablove childhood cancer research grants program is dedicated to awarding $50,000 seed grants to promising, early-career investigators. These grants enable researchers to discover and apply novel approaches to understanding childhood cancer, share their findings widely, and secure greater funding for larger, more advanced research projects and programs.this strategy has been remarkably successful in laying the foundation for exceptional breakthroughs in both scientific and clinical knowledge. Pablove's dream is to ensure that no brilliant, promising scientist goes unfunded during the crucial early phase of research needed to advance discoveries from the lab bench to the patient bedside. Children everywhere are waiting for the innovative treatments and cures that this research can provide.in 2024, we awarded two powered by pablove seed grants, each providing $50,000 for one year of funding. We also continued funding for one powered by pablove grant focused on opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome (oms), which provided $100,000 over two years.pablove-funded research is conducted at prestigious institutions including johns hopkins university school of medicine, the…
$156,593 spentof which $149,970 as grants27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $589,973.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.8M to $1.9M (−34%).
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 21% · 2021 15% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Emily Keith
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 28 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $865k → $239k.
18 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $25k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Pablove Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 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
PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 51% · 2019 61% · 2020 54% · 2021 58% · 2022 28% · 2023 30% — 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
34% of PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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 PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from California 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 12 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
PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 79% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$115k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PABLOVE FOUNDATION 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 PABLOVE FOUNDATION 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 PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC?
- PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,275,710 to it, the largest being THE MORF FOUNDATION ($1,950,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $4,275,710 in grants to PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC?
- THE MORF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC 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.
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 81 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