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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR THE AGED | $17,450 |
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 (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 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.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PVPLEASANT VIEW LUTHER HOME INC6× · 2019–2024 · $542k · revenue +36%
- LOLUTHER OAKS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $366k · revenue +40%
- LCLUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR THE AGED INC2× · 2024–2025 · $37k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- WLWITTENBERG LUTHERAN VILLAGE ENDOWMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $207k · revenue +6%
- SPST PAUL'S HOUSE AND HEALTH CARE CENTERone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -97%
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.
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.
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.
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.
As an expression of christ's love, we serve individuals and their caregivers with compassion and respect for independence, wellness, and spiritual life.
Provide long-term nursing care for the aging and faith-based services to enrich the lives of older adults.
Our mission is to provide person-centered services based on christian values.
To provide help, healing and hope in the name of jesus christ.
To provide nursing home care, residential care, and affordable housing for the elderly
To provide the highest quality of care to those in their golden years.
To provide supportive, rehabilitative care to meet the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of the people we serve.
To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.
Our mission is to provide help, healing and hope in the name of jesus christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Home for the Aged Inc and 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.
8 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 LUTHERAN HOME FOR THE AGED INC ↗
- Who funds WITTENBERG LUTHERAN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARLINGTON OF NAPLES ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT VIEW LUTHER HOME INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHER OAKS INC ↗
- Who funds WITTENBERG LUTHERAN VILLAGE ENDOWMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR THE AGED INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S HOUSE AND HEALTH CARE CENTER ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Lutheran Home and Services for the Aged Inc
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 Life Communities Foundation 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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