What Love Without Boundaries does

Love Without Boundaries (LWB) is a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2003, headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, with 51-100 employees. The organization provides medical, educational, nutritional, and foster-care support to vulnerable children and underserved communities across 12 countries in East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central America, and East Africa. Its program portfolio centers on pediatric cardiac surgery delivered through hospital partnerships in China (Anhui Children's Hospital) and India (Amrita Hospital), a Cambodia university scholarship program launched in 2016, and a Family-Based Foster Care initiative operating in Cambodia, Guatemala, India, and Uganda.

Core offerings include a Heart Surgery Program with over 1,500 cumulative procedures since 2003 and an annual target of approximately 150 surgeries, a Cambodia Education Program with 67 graduates and 27 currently enrolled students, and two new initiatives launched in the second half of 2025: the Playful Learning Guide for early childhood education (October 2025) and a Newborn Cardiac Screening Training program in Guatemala that has trained 71 midwives (December 2025). The underlying operating model is human-intensive field delivery rather than technology platforms; the organization explicitly offers no software products, APIs, or digital platforms.

LWB's business model is charitable donation-based, with no commercial pricing model and no paying customers. The organization has stated a $1,000,000 annual fundraising target for 2026 to sustain approximately 150 pediatric cardiac surgeries per year, with services delivered free of charge to beneficiaries. Donor concentration, endowment balance, grant composition, and audited financials are not disclosed in the available input.

Name

Love Without Boundaries

Legal name

Love Without Boundaries

Website

https://lwbkids.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Love Without Boundaries is a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2003 that delivers pediatric cardiac surgeries, university scholarships, foster care, and early childhood programs to vulnerable children across 12 countries, funded by charitable donations with a $1M annual fundraising target.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

International Humanitarian Nonprofit Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Support Services (6117), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412), Child and Youth Services (62411), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Disability Services & Independent Living Support (BPAGACAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Youth Housing, Foster Care & Wraparound Support (Education-Linked) Nonprofits (BPAGADAO), Refugee, Crisis & Humanitarian Education Partnerships (EiE) (EDADALAG)

Keywords

• Nonprofit humanitarian services
• Pediatric cardiac care
• Education scholarships
• Foster care programs
• Early childhood education

Headquarters

HQ city

Lowell

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual and Corporate Donations: Love Without Boundaries operates as a nonprofit organization that relies on charitable donations from individuals and corporations to fund its programs. The organization has a stated annual fundraising target of $1,000,000 to support its mission of providing life-saving surgeries and educational support to children in developing nations.

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Love Without Boundaries is a nonprofit that funds and coordinates life-saving cardiac surgeries for children with congenital heart defects in developing nations through hospital partnerships in China and India. The organization also runs a Cambodia Education Program offering scholarships to first-generation university students from vulnerable families, a Family-Based Foster Care Program across multiple countries, an early childhood learning curriculum (Playful Learning Guide), and a newborn cardiac screening training program for midwives in Guatemala.

Product overview

Love Without Boundaries is a nonprofit organization offering humanitarian programs centered on child welfare. The core offerings include: a Heart Surgery Program providing life-saving cardiac procedures to children in developing nations through hospital partnerships in China and India; a Cambodia Education Program offering scholarships and early childhood learning resources; and a Family-Based Foster Care Program promoting alternatives to institutional care. The organization operates across 12 countries, with a fundraising target of $1,000,000 annually to fund approximately 150 heart surgeries per year. Note: The organization is a charitable nonprofit, not a technology company, and does not offer software products, APIs, or digital platforms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Heart Surgery Program Life-saving pediatric cardiac surgery program for children with congenital heart defects in developing nations, delivered through hospital partnerships with Anhui Children's Hospital (China) and Amrita Hospital (India). Funded by donations and provided free of charge to beneficiaries; targets an annual volume of approximately 150 surgeries.
• Cambodia Education Program University scholarship program for first-generation students from vulnerable families in Cambodia. Currently supports 27 enrolled students and has produced 67 graduates to date, with degrees spanning nursing, civil engineering, mathematics, accounting, and interior design.
• Family-Based Foster Care Program Family-based foster care program operating across Cambodia, Guatemala, India, and Uganda that supports foster parents and promotes alternatives to institutional care for children without family support.
• Playful Learning Guide Educational program guide featuring over 50 play-based activities designed by teachers at an early childhood center in Cambodia, supporting interactive and playful learning for young children.
• Newborn Cardiac Screening Training in Guatemala Training program for midwives in rural Guatemala that teaches newborn cardiac screening techniques for early detection of congenital heart disease; 71 midwives trained to date with potential to impact more than 1,500 newborns annually.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1,500+ life-saving heart surgeries completed since 2003
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Anhui Children's HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2003Anhui Children's Hospital in China is a key medical partner providing pediatric cardiac care for children served by Love Without Boundaries. The partnership has enabled hundreds of life-saving heart surgeries since the organization's founding in 2003.
• Amrita HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2003Amrita Hospital in India serves as a critical cardiac care partner, providing life-saving surgical interventions for children from developing nations. The hospital partnership expands the organization's capacity to serve children across multiple regions.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Holt International: Provides international adoption and family-based child welfare services with programs in Cambodia, India, and other LWB geographies — overlapping on foster care and child sponsorship.
• Smile Train: Funds pediatric cleft surgeries in developing countries through a hospital-partnership and local-training model — directly comparable to LWB's medical delivery approach.
• International Children's Heart Foundation: Funds and delivers life-saving pediatric cardiac surgeries in developing countries through volunteer medical teams — the closest functional analogue to LWB's flagship Heart Surgery Program.
• SOS Children's Villages: Operates family-based alternative care programs for orphaned and abandoned children globally — the closest direct peer to LWB's Family-Based Foster Care Program.
• Operation Smile: Provides free pediatric surgeries (cleft lip/palate) in developing nations through medical missions and local partnerships — comparable mission-driven surgical model and donor base.
• Children's HeartLink: Partners with hospitals in low- and middle-income countries to build sustainable pediatric cardiac care capacity. Highly comparable to LWB's hospital-partnership model with Anhui and Amrita.

Broad incumbents

• Save the Children: Global NGO providing health, education, and child protection services in developing nations — broad overlap with LWB's program mix and donor demographic.
• World Vision: One of the largest child-focused humanitarian organizations, with overlapping health, education, and child protection programming in many of the same geographies as LWB.
• UNICEF: UN agency focused on child health, education, and welfare globally — competes for institutional funding and donor mindshare in the same child-welfare space.
• Compassion International: Large-scale child sponsorship and education nonprofit operating across dozens of developing countries. Comparable multi-program (education + health + welfare) model at vastly larger scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/LoveWB
• Facebookfacebook.com/LWBKids
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/love-without-boundaries

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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