Virginia · Nonprofit
SPECIAL LOVE INC
SPECIAL LOVE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,076,774 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($562,500). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Special Love Inc does
Mission
To provide cancer families a network of support, made up of other patients and families who know and understand the trials and triumphs of the cancer experience.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Camp fantastic - weeklong camp for children with cancer. It's a fun-filled week of swimming, canoeing, horseback riding, marshmallow roasting, campfire singing and pillow fighting. Medical staff are present for the entire week of camp to care for the children.
$458,194 spent$50 earned by the program43% of program spendingBrass activities - camp for the brothers and sisters of children with cancer. While the parents of a young cancer patient understandably spend much of their time focusing on the needs of their sick child, the healthy siblings sometimes feel guilty, invisible or ignored. As brothers and sisters experience the same emotional upheaval as parents, they may have less capacity to cope. Special love's unique camps for siblings become an important outlet as siblings adjust to a new family routine.
$203,151 spent$675 earned by the program19% of program spendingIn addition to camp fantastic and brass activities, special love offers many weekends for the families and cancer patients to connect with other patients and relax. Additionally, the organization awards scholarships to college for survivors of childhood cancer and financial assistance to families with current childhood cancer patients.
$243,957 spent$51,254 earned by the program23% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$171,995 spentof which $97,516 as grants$431 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,077,297.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.4M to $4.9M (+44%).
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: 2021 16% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of SPECIAL LOVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $129k → $291k.
13 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 SPECIAL LOVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
SPECIAL LOVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
77% 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 SPECIAL LOVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 65% · 2019 37% · 2020 18% · 2021 27% · 2022 23% · 2023 34% — 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
44% of SPECIAL LOVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
66% of SPECIAL LOVE INC'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 $707k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
SPECIAL LOVE INC has grown faster than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SPECIAL LOVE 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIAL LOVE 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 SPECIAL LOVE INC?
- SPECIAL LOVE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,076,774 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($562,500). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPECIAL LOVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $2,076,774 in grants to SPECIAL LOVE INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL LOVE INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $562,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL LOVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 51 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