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Concordia Lutheran Ministriesfoundation
The organization's exempt purpose is to manage the raising, receiving, and expending of funds in furtherance of the mission statement & corporate promises of the following 501(c)(3)'s: Concordia Lutheran Health and Human Care (EIN 25-0969458), Concordia Visiting Nurses (EIN 42-1704067), Concordia Lutheran Ministries of Pittsburgh (EIN…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $663k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $991k
- $250k+4 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Concordia Lutheran Ministries | $12,397,132 |
| Compassion International | $1,071,973 |
| Concordia Lutheran Ministries of Pittsburgh | $301,409 |
| Pittsburgh Area Lutheran Schools | $283,250 |
| Concordia Lutheran Health and Human Care | $231,362 |
| Concordia of Monroeville | $166,757 |
| Good Samaritan Hospice of Pittsburgh Inc | $134,193 |
| Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | $117,500 |
| Bethlen Home of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America | $85,723 |
| Rebecca Residence | $71,439 |
| St Luke Foundation for Haiti | $70,000 |
| Concordia of Ohio | $63,423 |
| Friends of Pioneer | $50,750 |
| St Luke Lutheran Church & School | $44,250 |
| Peace with Christ Lutheran Church | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 75% of Concordia Lutheran Ministriesfoundation’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, 76% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 18% — 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 22 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $454k 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 MINISTRIES2× · 2024–2025 · $24M · revenue +30%
Compassion International Incorporated9× · 2017–2025 · $6.8M · revenue +16%- CLCONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES OF PITTSBURGH5× · 2018–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +69%
Funded once
- LSLutheran Social Services of the South Incone grant, 2018 · $49k
- FLFAITH LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $25k
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +29%
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.
Our mission is to provide help, healing and hope in the name of jesus christ.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
"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…
Our mission is to provide for the physical, social, and spiritual needs of individuals we serve, in a Christian environment. The organization is an adult care facility which can accommodate 48 residents.
Lutheran services in iowa's mission is based on a christian philosophy of faithful service to all our neighbors. our mission is, indeed, why we do what we do: lutheran services in iowa responds to the love of jesus christ through…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Luther home of mercy (lhm) is a ministry enriching lives and individual abilities, serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Grounded in a Lutheran faith tradition, LMM serves people who are oppressed, forgotten and hurting through providing responsive solutions, voice, and hope. The mission is achieved through 4 areas of service: Guardianship, Housing &…
It is the mission of the corporation to promote the creation and maintenance of services and institutions for people with care needs. this mission is founded on the belief that prudent use of resources for compassionate services is a…
Jubilee ministries exists to serve those affected by incarceration by being ambassadors of life change through the gospel of jesus christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Camp Association and the most unlike its peers is American Warrior Initiative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
131 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. 131 of the 200 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 MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA LUTHERAN HEALTH AND HUMAN CARE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds REBECCA RESIDENCE ↗
- Who funds Global Connection International ↗
- Who funds Community Health Clinic of Butler County Inc ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER DISASTER REBUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA OF MONROEVILLE ↗
- Who funds Faith Aid ↗
- Who funds LAMP MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Hosanna Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICES INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PIONEER INC ↗
- Who funds BETHLEN HOME OF THE HUNGARIAN REFORMED FEDERATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE ST LUKE FOUNDATION FOR HAITI ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds PINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Stepping Stone Mission Inc ↗
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 Ministries of Pittsburgh · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Centimark Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing
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 Ministriesfoundation 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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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