Who is Love and Bliss (the Tampa nonprofit named on the deed) and what public records exist about its involvement?
Executive summary
Love & Bliss (styled in reporting as Love & Bliss Inc) is a small, opaque Florida-registered Christian nonprofit that surfaced publicly after filing a deed claim on two Jeffrey Epstein properties and after federal loan records showed it received pandemic relief funds; reporting indicates the group has minimal public footprint and spotting of irregularities in public records prompted a judge to reject its deed claim [1]. Public records that reporters have located include a PPP loan entry in federal databases and nonprofit registration traces on nonprofit aggregators, while required IRS disclosure filings appear to be missing or not publicly available for the organization [1] [2] [3].
1. What the public record plainly shows: a PPP loan and a deed claim that courts tossed
Federal pandemic-relief loan databases record that Love & Bliss obtained a $97,700 loan in July 2020 and reported it would preserve 13 jobs, an entry compiled in public databases and cited by reporting from The Daily Beast that relied on ProPublica’s nonprofit records [1] [3]. That same reporting ties Love & Bliss to a deed submitted claiming ownership of at least one of Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach properties; attorneys for Epstein’s estate challenged the deed and a judge ruled the group had “no right, title, or interest” in the property after finding the deed fraudulent [1].
2. Corporate identity and registration traces: sparse, inconsistent, and easily confused with another Tampa charity
Independent nonprofit aggregators list entities named Love & Bliss Inc or similarly spelled variants with registration snippets and tax-exempt identifiers (TaxExemptWorld lists Love & Bliss Inc with an EIN-like number in its profile) but contain limited detail about operations, leaders, or financial statements [2]. At the same time, major nonprofit databases also host profiles for Love INC of Metro Tampa — a long-established, church-network charity with public Form 990 filings — which is a distinct organization and should not be conflated with Love & Bliss; ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer and GuideStar/Candid maintain searchable filing records for many Tampa nonprofits, underscoring how easy it is to conflate similarly named groups in public searches [3] [4] [5].
3. Known public records reporters used and what they do — and don’t — prove
Reporters relied on the Small Business Administration’s PPP loan data (public federal records mirrored in databases like ProPublica) to document the $97,700 disbursement to Love & Bliss and to report the organization’s claim about jobs preserved [1] [3]. Court filings and rulings in the Epstein estate litigation — summarized in The Daily Beast — supply the legal finding that Love & Bliss’s deed was invalid in that case; those court records are public and form the strongest documentary link between the nonprofit and the property claim [1]. What these records do not supply, at least in the cited reporting, is independent verification of Love & Bliss’s day‑to‑day operations, staffing, bank statements, or complete IRS Form 990 filings for the years after its formation; reporting explicitly notes the group “has not once filed the required annual disclosure with the Internal Revenue Service” since formation, a gap reporters flagged as significant [1].
4. Red flags, alternative explanations and the limits of available documents
The pattern of a modest PPP loan, scant online presence, a residential founding address, and missing IRS disclosures flagged by reporters is consistent with either a tiny, lightly active nonprofit or a shell entity used opportunistically — reporting cites both possibilities while noting the absence of direct proof of illicit intent [1] [2]. The judge’s finding that the deed was fraudulent is a concrete legal determination in the probate dispute, but it addresses title to the property, not definitively the nonprofit’s broader finances or motives; additional public records searches (court dockets, state charity registration, bank or UCC filings, and full IRS returns if they exist) would be required to develop a fuller factual picture [1] [3].
5. How to follow the paper trail next: where public documents live and what remains to be pulled
Key public repositories referenced by reporting include federal PPP loan databases and nonprofit filings indexed by ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer and Candid/GuideStar for registered 501(c)s [3] [4] [5], while municipal public-record portals (City of Tampa public records center and public‑records pages) provide pathways to local deeds, property records and city correspondence if one seeks primary documents [6] [7] [8]. Reporters and the public can obtain court docket entries tied to the Epstein estate litigation for the judge’s written rulings; however, the cited sources stop short of linking to a comprehensive set of Love & Bliss’s IRS filings or bank-level records, and so those financial details remain unconfirmed in the available reporting [1] [3].