· Private foundation
Lutheran Home and Hospital Foundation Inc C/O Rev Michael Dubsky
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of LUTHERAN HOME AND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC C/O REV MICHAEL DUBSKY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAR LU RIDGE CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER | $20,000 |
| MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| BREATH OF GOD LUTHERAN CHURCH | $7,500 |
| AMAZING GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $7,500 |
| REFORMATION LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,003 |
| ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,225 |
| DELWARE-MARYLAND SYNOD OF THE ELCA HUNGER TASK FORCE | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 26% 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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 3 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TCTHE CARROLL LUTHERAN SCHOOL INC6× · 2017–2022 · $86k · revenue +35%
- CLCARROLL LUTHERAN VILLAGE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $65k · revenue +24%
- CFCHURCHES FOR STREETS OF HOPE INC4× · 2018–2023 · $17k · revenue +230%
Funded once
- MLMID-ATLANTIC LUTHERANS IN MISSION INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -31%
- HSHOLY SPIRIT LUTHERAN CHURCH ELDERSBURGone grant, 2017 · $20k
- CLCARROLL LUTHERAN VILLAGELUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF MDone grant, 2021 · $16k
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.
To provide nursing home care, residential care, and affordable housing for the elderly
The lutheran village at miller's grant is organized to receive and administer funds for, to establish, maintain, supervise, coordinate, assist and perform planning and other functions for the benefit of, or to carry out the charitable,…
Older adults living life to the fullest.
Provide long-term nursing care for the aging and faith-based services to enrich the lives of older adults.
To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.
To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.
Lutheran social ministries is organized to receive and administer funds for, to establish, maintain, supervise, coordinate, assist and perform planning and other functions for the benefit of, or to carry out the charitable, educational,…
To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.
To provide low income housing for the elderly
Through the power of the holy spirit and in response to god's love as revealed in the gospel, the mission of lutheran social ministries of nj is to serve those who hurt, who are in need, or who have limited choices through an array of…
Our mission is to provide person-centered services based on christian values.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Senior Services East and the most unlike its peers is North East Social Action Program 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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
11 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. 11 of the 71 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 THE CARROLL LUTHERAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH EAST SOCIAL ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL LUTHERAN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Mar-Lu-Ridge Camp and Retreat Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MID-ATLANTIC LUTHERANS IN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES FOR STREETS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS OUTREACH 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: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lutheran Home and Hospital Foundation Inc C/O Rev Michael Dubsky 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 Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% 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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