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Concordia Lutheran Ministries of Pittsburgh
Concordia Lutheran Ministries of Pittsburgh strives to serve our aging community with a continuum of high quality care-giving options, provided in a Christian environment, and to serve those with limited funds to the best of our ability.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $180k
- $250k+1 grant · $7.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Concordia Lutheran Ministries Foundation | $7,000,000 |
| Light of Life Ministries | $32,500 |
| Lighthouse Foundation | $30,000 |
| Pine Valley Bible Conference | $25,000 |
| Family Guidance | $22,500 |
| First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church | $22,500 |
| Washington City Mission | $15,000 |
| Shepherds Heart Fellowship | $12,500 |
| Urban Impact Foundation | $10,000 |
| Hosanna Industries | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $237k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 52% of Concordia Lutheran Ministries of Pittsburgh’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 47% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CLCONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION5× · 2018–2025 · $20M · revenue +66%
Compassion International Incorporated2× · 2018–2023 · $347k · revenue +7%- PAPITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES5× · 2019–2023 · $221k · revenue +147% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- PAPITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN SCHOOLSone grant, 2019 · $85k · revenue +19% · 61% of their budget
- ILINTERNATIONAL LUTHERAN LAYMENS LEAGUEone grant, 2018 · $58k
- RRROYAL REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds AUSTINS PLACE ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LINKS ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOUTH HILLS OF PITTSBURGH ASSOC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH URBAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED LUTHERAN MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWINDS INC ↗
- Who funds Hosanna Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds LAMP MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Concordia Lutheran Ministriesfoundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Hillman Family Foundations · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Brooks Foundation · Centimark Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Pitcairn-Crabbe Foundation · Massey Charitable Trust · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Concordia Lutheran Ministries of Pittsburgh funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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