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Luther Foundation of Southern Chester County

To provide housing for the elderly.

$105k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$374kPublic Safety & Disaster$109kHuman Services$109kAnimals$15kPhilanthropy$8k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICE OF S CHESTE$22,358
LUTHER HOUSE II INC$16,000
LUTHER HOUSE III INC$11,000
WEST GROVE FIRE COMPANY$8,000
GOOD NEIGHBORS$8,000
KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER$8,000
OXFORD AREA SENIOR CENTER$8,000
SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY EMERGENCY M$8,000
HENRY'S HELPING PAWS OF CHESTER COU$8,000
POCOPSON HOME$8,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $11k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $11k → 6%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $8k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $8k → 6%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $8k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $8k → 6%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $7k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $7k → 6%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $7k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $7k → 6%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $7k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $7k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $7k → 6%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $7k → 6%OXFORD AREA SENIOR CENTER: $11k → 6%OXFORD AREA SENIOR CENTER: $8k → 6%OXFORD AREA SENIOR CENTER: $8k → 6%OXFORD AREA SENIOR CENTER: $7k → 6%OXFORD AREA SENIOR CENTER: $7k → 6%OXFORD AREA SENIOR CENTER: $7k → 6%OXFORD AREA SENIOR CENTER: $7k → 6%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$391k · 8 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$391k
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+86%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • GN
    GOOD NEIGHBORS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +222%
  • OS
    OXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +50%
  • SC
    SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHURCH HOUSING CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $190k · revenue -67% · 61% of their budget
  • PV
    PENNSYLVANIA VETERINARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +86% · 56% of their budget
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.

1
Church Housing Corp of Phoenixville Aka Episcopal House

Housing for the elderly.

Housing & Shelter
2
Church Housing Corp of De County T/a Episcopal Place At Park Row

To provide housing for low income, elderly persons.

Housing & Shelter
3
Lutheran Community Home Inc

To provide nursing home care and residential housing for the elderly residents of the community.

Human Services
4
Lutheran Life Villages Home Healthcare Inc

As an expression of christ's love, we serve individuals and their caregivers with compassion and respect for independence, wellness, and spiritual life.

—
5
St Peter's Housing Development Corporation Inc

Housing for the elderly.

—
6
Lutheran Home for the Aged Development Corporation

To provide the highest quality of care to those in their golden years.

—
7
Luther Care Services

To provide nursing home care, residential care, and affordable housing for the elderly

Human Services
8
Lutheran Housing Services 6 Inc

Qualified low-income housing project for the elderly.

—
9
Virginia Lutheran Homes Inc

Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.

—
10
Crockett Senior Housing Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
Luther Towers of Dover Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Luther Village Ii of Dover Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Luther House Iv Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH HOUSING CORPORATION: $190,094 · Housing & ShelterCHURCH HOUSING CORPORATIONLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY (PA) INC: $35,158 · Housing & ShelterLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUN…LUTHER HOUSE II INC: $28,800 · Housing & ShelterLUTHER HOUSE II INCLUTHER HOUSE III INC: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $54,500 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBORS INCOXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC: $54,500 · Human ServicesOXFORD SENIOR CENTER INCKENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER INC: $54,500 · Human ServicesKENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER INCSOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $54,500 · HealthSOUTHERN CHESTER COU…WEST GROVE FIRE COMPANY: $54,500 · HealthWEST GROVE FIRE COMP…POCOPSON HOME: $54,500 · OtherPOCOPSON HOM…PENNSYLVANIA VETERINARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA…Chester County Community Foundation: $8,000 · Philanthropy
Housing & Shelter$265,052Human Services$163,500Health$109,000Other$69,500Philanthropy$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHURCH HOUSING CORPORATION: $190,094 over 1y, 61% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $54,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetOXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC: $54,500 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetKENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER INC: $54,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetSOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $54,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetWEST GROVE FIRE COMPANY: $54,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY (PA) INC: $35,158 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetLUTHER HOUSE II INC: $28,800 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA VETERINARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetLUTHER HOUSE III INC: $11,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetChester County Community Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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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 Luther Foundation of Southern Chester County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Luther Foundation of Southern Chester County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Luther Foundation of Southern Chester County?

    Find your warmest path to Luther Foundation of Southern Chester County 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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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