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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 FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$17,450
Largest grant, FY2025
$17,450
Organizations funded a year
4 to 6
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Lutheran Life Communities Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$17k0%
FY20246$2.7M33%
FY20234$1.9M0%
FY20224$505k0%
FY20215$746k0%
FY20205$322k0%
FY20196$1.1Mn/a
100% 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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lutheran Home for the Aged Inc$4,363,17963%
Wittenberg Lutheran Village Inc$1,053,957669%
The Arlington of Naples$766,37031%
Pleasant View Luther Home Inc$542,18462%
Luther Oaks Inc$365,81661%
Wittenberg Lutheran Village Endowment Corporation$207,27615%
Lutheran Community Services for the Aged Inc$37,36721%
St Paul's House and Health Care Center$5,35010%

Where it is load-bearing

Lutheran Life Communities Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 →

Open a dossier: Lutheran Home and Services for the Aged Inc

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.

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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.

About Lutheran Life Communities Foundation

How much does Lutheran Life Communities Foundation give?
Lutheran Life Communities Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $17,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Lutheran Life Communities Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (100%), Recreation & Sports (0%), Health (0%).
Who are Lutheran Life Communities Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Lutheran Home for the Aged Inc ($4.4M), Wittenberg Lutheran Village Inc ($1.1M), The Arlington of Naples ($766k).
Does Lutheran Life Communities Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lutheran Life Communities Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lutheran Home and Services for the Aged Inc.
Where is Lutheran Life Communities Foundation based?
Lutheran Life Communities Foundation is based in IL.

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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