Choose Love Inc
New York, NY · EIN 83-1378746. Reported 107 grants totalling $7,439,332 to 66 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Choose Love Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 66 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 45% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $80,000; the smallest was $7,900 and the largest $600,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fwdus Education Fund Inc | Washington, DC | $875,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nova Ukraine | Palo Alto, CA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Opencollective Foundation | Covina, CA | $468,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Refugee Health Alliance | La Jolla, CA | $350,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Near East Refugee Aid Inc | Washington, DC | $275,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Al Otro Lado Inc | San Ysidro, CA | $270,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Institute for State Effectiveness | Washington, DC | $260,040 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Artogether | Oakland, CA | $240,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc | Brownsville, TX | $235,781 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| International Refugee Assistance Project Inc | New York, NY | $232,500 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Global Response Management Inc | Marco Island, FL | $227,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Outright Action International | New York, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Karam Foundation Nfp | Chicago, IL | $190,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Nest Global | Santa Monica, CA | $185,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| King Hussein Cancer Foundation USA Inc | Washington, DC | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Alliance New Econ | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Uplift Afghanistan | Westlake Vlg, CA | $147,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Gofundme Org | West Hollywood, CA | $133,086 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Solidarity Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $117,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Haitian Bridge Alliance | San Diego, CA | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| MILES4MIGRANTS | New Orleans, LA | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Transgender Law Center | Oakland, CA | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| White Helmets Inc | New York, NY | $110,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Women for Afghan Women Inc | Fresh Meadows, NY | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sams Foundation | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| International Network for Aid Relief and Assistance Inc | Wassaic, NY | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fund for Global Human Rights | Washington, DC | $78,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| All for Armenia | Sacramento, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Respond Crisis Translation | San Francisco, CA | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Peace of Mind Afghanistan Inc | Longmeadow, MA | $67,900 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Voices Project USA Inc | Brooklyn New York, NY | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| High Atlas Foundation | New York, NY | $60,575 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Border Kindness | El Centro, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fenix Ltd | South Bend, IN | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc | New York, NY | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Border Angels | San Diego, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Brave Generation Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Great Ukraine Inc | Tucson, AZ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans | San Diego, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley | San Juan, TX | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Justice in Motion Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kooyrigs Inc | W Bloomfield, MI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Teambrownsville Inc | Brownsville, TX | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Armadillos Search & Res Org | San Marcos, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc | Tucson, AZ | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New York Immigration Coalition Inc | New York, NY | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| When We Band Together | Gresham, OR | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Afghan American Womens Association | Alexandria, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Asylum Access | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Humanitarian Social Innovations | Bethlehem, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Miaseen Inc | Daly City, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Usahello | Portland, OR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Migrant Workers Action | Dallas, TX | $21,450 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Doug Flutie JR Foundation for Autism Inc | Newton, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Refugee & Immigrant Transitions | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Refugepoint Inc | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Transgender Law Center | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center Inc | Brownsville, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Safe Passage Project Corporation | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Together & Free Inc | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wartists Inc | Vienna, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Elimisha Kakuma | Blacksburg, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Freedom for Immigrants | Covina, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Malam-Darfur Peace and Development Inc | Falls Church, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Muslim Youth for Positive Impact | Broomfield, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
23 of 66 (35%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 57 of 66 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 29 | $1,448,000 | $45,000 |
| 2022 | 27 | $2,280,440 | $40,000 |
| 2023 | 28 | $1,771,731 | $55,000 |
| 2024 | 23 | $1,939,161 | $50,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
42% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Choose Love Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 23 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 40 West 37TH St 1000, New York, NY, 10018.
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