Illinois · Nonprofit
Project LOVE Chicago
Project LOVE Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,206 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Project LOVE Chicago does
Mission
Project LOVE Chicago strives to break the cycle of poverty decrease violent crimes and increase youth academic outcomes. We do this by providing academic athletic and professional resources to vulnerable minority populations throughout the Chicago area. Project LOVE Chicago's vision is to create equity and diversity across all job sectors helping spark change and create better opportunities for our future. Our programming is aimed at helping prepare minority individuals with academic support resources and critical job training skills to build wealth in minority communities and close the racial and ethnic wealth gap in Chicago.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Project Love Chicago created our Life After Basketball Camp to provide meaningful programming for under-served youth that fosters character and leadership development academic excellence and community involvement. The target group we serve is 6th-12th grade under-served youth boys in Englewood who play basketball. A lot of our campers have inadequate educational athletic and employment resources. They also lack access to safe extracurricular activities. We serve a total of 50 youth and it cost us $400 per student $20,000 in total to run our summer basketball camp. For six weeks we provide free basketball camps that focus on basketball skill development but also career exploration mental & physical health & wellness financial literacy education and entrepreneurship. We give the youth the opportunity to connect with current & former college & professional athletes that played at the highest levels.
$20,000 spent80% of program spendingOur academic program provides students with a passionate learning experience to complement students' academic curriculum and augment their educational experience. With 24 7 365 day support students have access to remote tutors to get help with homework essays and resumes around the clock anywhere they have wifi access. We also have a college scholarship program that provides scholarships to Chicago Public School students that might not qualify for other scholarships but demonstrate a financial need posses leadership qualities and give back to their community.
$5,000 spentof which $24,500 as grants20% of program spendingOur athletics program allows youth to gain exposure play travel AAU basketball and take advantage of our skill development clinics and camps we host year around. We also give the youth opportunities to showcase their skills and get recruited through our tournaments and shootouts we host to help them get to the next level. Our camps and clinics help keep our youth occupied and safe off of the streets during idle times when violent crime is most likely to occur. We provide a unique experience not only focusing on basketball skill development but also personal development.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,000.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Curtis Henderson
ExecutIVE Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $21k → $13k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 Project LOVE Chicago’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
Project LOVE Chicago leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 Project LOVE Chicago.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 39% — 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.
Where its funders are
86% of Project LOVE Chicago'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k 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
Project LOVE Chicago runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,195 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,195 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Project LOVE Chicago: 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 Project LOVE Chicago?
- Project LOVE Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,206 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Project LOVE Chicago have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $59,206 in grants to Project LOVE Chicago.
- Who is the largest funder of Project LOVE Chicago?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Project LOVE Chicago find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 6 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