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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.

$7.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$11MReligion$9.4MInternational$414kHousing & Shelter$265kEducation$259kYouth Development$118kHuman Services$87kFood & Nutrition$50k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $180k
  • $250k+1 grant · $7.0M
$22,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$115M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Concordia Lutheran Ministries Foundation$7,000,000
Light of Life Ministries$32,500
Lighthouse Foundation$30,000
Pine Valley Bible Conference$25,000
First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church$22,500
Family Guidance$22,500
Washington City Mission$15,000
Shepherds Heart Fellowship$12,500
Hosanna Industries$10,000
Urban Impact Foundation$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Lighthouse Foundation: $30k → 9%Washington City Mission: $30k → 12%Lighthouse Foundation: $13k → 9%Washington City Mission: $27k → 12%Washington City Mission: $15k → 12%Washington City Mission: $15k → 12%Light of Life Rescue Mission: $25k → 11%Family Guidance: $23k → 9%Light of Life Rescue Mission: $23k → 11%Family Guidance: $10k → 9%Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh Inc: $12k → 9%Pittsburgh Urban Christian School: $8k → 11%Pittsburgh Urban Christian School: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 52% of Concordia Lutheran Ministries of Pittsburgh’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 47%.

Concordia Lutheran Ministries of Pittsburghlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 20 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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14

Total granted

$22M
$274k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+19%

Still filing today

70%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalReligionEducationHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

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    CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2025 · $20M · revenue +66%
  • Compassion International Incorporated
    2× · 2018–2023 · $347k · revenue +7%
  • PA
    PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES
    5× · 2019–2023 · $221k · revenue +147% · 45% of their budget

Funded once

  • PA
    PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2019 · $85k · revenue +19% · 61% of their budget
  • IL
    INTERNATIONAL LUTHERAN LAYMENS LEAGUE
    one grant, 2018 · $58k
  • RR
    ROYAL REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $18k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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.…

Housing & Shelter
2
Portersville Christian School

The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…

Education
3
Jubilee Ministries

Jubilee ministries exists to serve those affected by incarceration by being ambassadors of life change through the gospel of jesus christ.

Religion
4
Luthercare

"luthercare reflects christ's love through service to others." our mission is to enhance the quality of life through creative senior living opportunities, family life through quality child care and early learning centers, appropriate…

Human Services
5
The Lutheran Service Society of W Pa

With christ's guidance, lutheran service society offers programs that empower our neighbors to lead independent, dignified, and secure lives.

Human Services
6
The Lehigh Conference of Churches

To put our christian faith into action by serving and advocating for our neighbors in need.

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7
Allegheny Lutheran Social Ministries Inc

To serve people through a ministry of love, compassion, and mercy in the name of our lord, jesus christ.

Human Services
8
Callegheny Lutheran Home
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9
Pittsburgh Pastoral Institute

To enhance the health of individuals, families, and communities through the interfaith ministry of counseling and education that integrates the resources of faith and the behavioral sciences.

Religion
10
Austin City Lutherans

Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.

Religion
11
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…

Health
12
Bethlehem Haven of Pittsburgh

To provide a continuum of care for homeless individuals that leads toward self-sufficiency.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lighthouse Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Austins Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION: $20,251,260 · HealthCONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION+1 more: $99,500 · HealthFIRST TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $233,700 · OtherINTERNATIONAL LUTHERAN LAYMENS LEAGUE: $57,500 · OtherPINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE: $35,000 · OtherZION LUTHERAN CHURCH: $34,840 · OtherSHEPHERDS HEART FELLOWSHIP & MINISTRIES: $34,800 · OtherCALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherBUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC: $25,000 · OtherAUSTINS PLACE: $50,000 · Other+12 more: $140,600 · OtherCompassion International Incorporated: $346,709 · InternationalGLOBAL LINKS: $42,600 · InternationalWASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $87,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $48,400 · Human ServicesTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $42,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH: $12,000 · Human ServicesPITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES: $220,900 · ReligionLAMP MINISTRY INC: $10,000 · ReligionPITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN SCHOOLS: $85,000 · EducationPITTSBURGH URBAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $16,100 · EducationBRIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$20,350,760Other$641,440International$389,309Human Services$237,400Religion$230,900Education$101,100Food & Nutrition$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION: $20,251,260 over 5y, 19% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $346,709 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES: $220,900 over 5y, 45% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $99,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $87,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN SCHOOLS: $85,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetBRIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetAUSTINS PLACE: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $48,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL LINKS: $42,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $32,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBUTLER-FREEPORT COMMUNITY TRAIL COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetJUBILEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOUTH HILLS OF PITTSBURGH ASSOC: $21,100 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPITTSBURGH URBAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $16,100 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWINDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAMP MINISTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHosanna Industries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Concordia Lutheran Mi…The Pittsburgh Founda…The United Way of Sou…Hillman Family Founda…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…Brooks FoundationCentimark FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The Cigna Group Found…Pitcairn-Crabbe Found…Massey Charitable Tru…Aj and Sigismunda Pal…
Concordia Lutheran MinistriesfoundationPA59.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Concordia Lutheran Ministries of Pittsburgh funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Concordia Lutheran Ministries of Pittsburgh. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Concordia Lutheran Ministries of Pittsburgh?

    Find your warmest path to Concordia Lutheran Ministries of Pittsburgh through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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