· Public charity
Luther Foundation of Southern Chester County
To provide housing for the elderly.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICE OF S CHESTE | $22,358 |
| LUTHER HOUSE II INC | $16,000 |
| LUTHER HOUSE III INC | $11,000 |
| GOOD NEIGHBORS | $8,000 |
| OXFORD AREA SENIOR CENTER | $8,000 |
| SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY EMERGENCY M | $8,000 |
| HENRY'S HELPING PAWS OF CHESTER COU | $8,000 |
| KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER | $8,000 |
| WEST GROVE FIRE COMPANY | $8,000 |
| POCOPSON HOME | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- OSOXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +50%
- GNGOOD NEIGHBORS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +222%
- SCSOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- CHCHURCH HOUSING CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $190k · revenue -77% · 61% of their budget
- PVPENNSYLVANIA VETERINARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +86% · 56% of their budget
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.
Housing for the elderly.
To provide housing for low income, elderly persons.
To provide nursing home care and residential housing for the elderly residents of the community.
As an expression of christ's love, we serve individuals and their caregivers with compassion and respect for independence, wellness, and spiritual life.
Housing for the elderly.
To provide the highest quality of care to those in their golden years.
To provide nursing home care, residential care, and affordable housing for the elderly
Qualified low-income housing project for the elderly.
Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.
Provide subsidized housing (37 unit complex) for elderly and handicapped low income seniors under section 202 of the national housing act and the u.s. department of housing and urban development.
Provide safe, secure housing for eligible persons of limited income in an atmosphere of peace and dignity, with a sense of reponsible community and to provide such support services from management, staff and volunteers.
Provide safe, secure housing for eligible persons of limited income in an atmosphere of peace and dignity, with a sense of responsible community and to provide such support services from management, staff and volunteers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Luther House Iv Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pennsylvania Veterinary Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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.
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 CHURCH HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST GROVE FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY (PA) INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHER HOUSE II INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA VETERINARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHER HOUSE III INC ↗
- Who funds Chester County Community Foundation ↗
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.
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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 Luther Foundation of Southern Chester County 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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