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Lutheran Life Communities Foundation

LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION supports the residents and operations of each lutheran life community in order to provide vibrant grace filled living for each member of our community.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$7.3MRecreation & Sports$17kHealth$5k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$17,450
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR THE AGED$17,450
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LUTHERAN HOME FOR THE AGED INC: $2.0M → 14%LUTHERAN HOME FOR THE AGED INC: $1.6M → 14%LUTHERAN HOME FOR THE AGED INC: $277k → 14%LUTHERAN HOME FOR THE AGED INC: $258k → 14%LUTHERAN HOME FOR THE AGED INC: $227k → 14%LUTHERAN HOME FOR THE AGED INC: $3k → 14%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 6 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$7.1M
$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+6%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & 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

  • PV
    PLEASANT VIEW LUTHER HOME INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $542k · revenue +36%
  • LO
    LUTHER OAKS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $366k · revenue +40%
  • LC
    LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR THE AGED INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $37k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • WL
    WITTENBERG LUTHERAN VILLAGE ENDOWMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2024 · $207k · revenue +6%
  • SP
    ST PAUL'S HOUSE AND HEALTH CARE CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -97%
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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Lutheran Life Communities

Empowering vibrant grace filled living across all generations. providing residential and health care services to seniors including benevolent care to those who have exhausted their financial funds.

Human Services
2
Lutheran Home and Services for the Aged Inc

Empowering vibrant grace filled living across all generations. providing residential and health care services to seniors including benevolent care to those who have exhausted their financial funds.

Human Services
3
Lutheran Life Communities Foundation

Lutheran life communities foundation supports the residents and operations of each lutheran life community in order to provide vibrant grace filled living for each member of our community.

Housing & Shelter
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 Luke Lutheran Community

Provide long-term nursing care for the aging and faith-based services to enrich the lives of older adults.

—
6
Lutheran Sunset Ministries

Our mission is to provide person-centered services based on christian values.

Housing & Shelter
7
Lubbock Lutheran Retirement Corporation

To provide help, healing and hope in the name of jesus christ.

—
8
Luther Care Services

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

Human Services
9
Lutheran Home for the Aged Development Corporation

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

—
10
Luther Memorial Home

To provide supportive, rehabilitative care to meet the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of the people we serve.

—
11
Lutheran Retirement Center Association

To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.

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12
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Our mission is to provide help, healing and hope in the name of jesus christ.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Home for the Aged Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Arlington of Naples. 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

8 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUTHERAN HOME FOR THE AGED INC: $4,363,179 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN HOME FOR THE AGED INCTHE ARLINGTON OF NAPLES: $766,370 · OtherTHE ARLINGTON OF NAPL…LUTHER OAKS INC: $365,816 · OtherLUTHER OAKS INCWITTENBERG LUTHERAN VILLAGE ENDOWMENT CORPORATION: $207,276 · OtherWITTENBERG LUTHERAN V…+1 more: $37,367 · OtherWITTENBERG LUTHERAN VILLAGE INC: $1,053,957 · HealthWITTENBERG LUTHE…+1 more: $5,350 · HealthPLEASANT VIEW LUTHER HOME INC: $542,184 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$4,363,179Other$1,376,829Health$1,059,307Housing & Shelter$542,184

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUTHERAN HOME FOR THE AGED INC: $4,363,179 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetWITTENBERG LUTHERAN VILLAGE INC: $1,053,957 over 6y, 69% of budgetTHE ARLINGTON OF NAPLES: $766,370 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPLEASANT VIEW LUTHER HOME INC: $542,184 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetLUTHER OAKS INC: $365,816 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWITTENBERG LUTHERAN VILLAGE ENDOWMENT CORPORATION: $207,276 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetLUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR THE AGED INC: $37,367 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST PAUL'S HOUSE AND HEALTH CARE CENTER: $5,350 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Lutheran Home and Ser…
Lutheran Home and Services for the Aged IncIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Lutheran Life Communities Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lutheran Life Communities Foundation. 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
    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 Lutheran Life Communities Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lutheran Life Communities Foundation 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 8 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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