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The Lutheran Foundation for Long-Term Living at a glance

· Private foundation

The Lutheran Foundation for Long-Term Living

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through 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, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$2.0MYouth Development$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$800kHealth$614kHuman Services$597kPublic Benefit$593kReligion$416kPhilanthropy$250kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $462k
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.9M
$75,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$127M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GANNON UNIVERSITY$2,000,000
SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUND$800,000
ALLEGHENY VALLEY VETERANS CENTER$592,600
THE FAINE HOUSE INC$250,000
WARREN AREA REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT NETWORK$250,000
LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES$137,280
SUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC$100,000
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION HARDIN INC$100,000
FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$75,000
LEVINE MUSIC$50,000
NW WORKS INC$38,000
AIM SERVICES INC$30,000
HUDSON VALLEY HOSPICE FOUNDATION$15,000
CLC FOUNDATION DBA WINSLOW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$15,000
ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH$12,000
02The need
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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 (FY23–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PENNSYLVANIA LIFE PROVIDERS ALLIANCE: $60k → 12%WARREN AREA REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT NETWORK: $250k → 14%AIM SERVICES INC: $30k → 7%SUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC: $100k → 13%THE FAINE HOUSE INC: $1.0M → 13%LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES: $137k → 11%THE FAINE HOUSE INC: $250k → 13%LAKESHORE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
WI
NY
PA
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
DC
FL
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 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
Virginia Lutheran Homes Inc

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

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2
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.

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3
Allied Health Care Services

Our mission is that we are committed to the people of our community, to help them overcome challenges and reach their greatest potential by providing quality care, people oriented services, and comfort. continued on schedule o.allied…

Human Services
4
Harwood Place Inc

Harwood place, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.

Housing & Shelter
5
Vna Assisted Living Inc

Providing elderly housing and assistance to eligible clients in northeast wisconsin.

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6
Leadingage New York Inc

Leadingage new york represents not-for-profit, mission-driven and public continuing care providers, including nursing homes, senior housing, adult care facilities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living and community…

Civil Rights
7
Laurel House Inc

To provide community-based living arrangement programs offering different levels of assistance for handicapped individuals residing in fayette county, pa.

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8
Schofield Residence Inc

To provide the highest level of professional health care and supportive services to the frail elderly and disabled individuals in the community. We offer individual choice by providing a variety of services that are offered in both…

Health
9
L'arche Syracuse Inc

L'arche syracuse, inc. is a faith based organization. our mission is to (1) make known the gifts of people with developmental disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relations, (2) foster an environment in community that…

Human Services
10
Allied Services Skilled Nursing Center

We are committed to the people of our community, to help them overcome challenges and reach their greatest potential by providing quality care, people oriented services, and comfort through the operation of a skilled and intermediate…

Health
11
Mainstay Life Services

Individuals with developmental disabilities will live within a community that sustains them and benefits from their participation. mainstay life services will be regarded as the region's provider of choice for individuals and families…

Housing & Shelter
12
Keystone Care

Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suburban Adult Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Warren Area Refugee Resettlement Network Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GANNON UNIVERSITY: $2,000,000 · EducationGANNON UNIVERSITY+1 more: $15,000 · EducationTHE FAINE HOUSE INC: $1,250,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAINE HOUSE INCWarren Area Refugee Resettlement Network Inc: $250,000 · Human ServicesWarren Area Refugee Resettlemen…LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES: $137,280 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICESSUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesSUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC+3 more: $95,000 · Human ServicesSCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUND: $800,000 · OtherSCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUN…UNITED LUTHERAN SEMINARY: $250,000 · OtherUNITED LUTHERAN SEMINARYBaptist Health Foundation Hardin: $100,000 · OtherBaptist Health Foundatio…FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $75,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE BRIDEGROOM LTD BETHANY HOUSE: $75,000 · OtherHOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $67,000 · Other+8 more: $76,700 · OtherALLEGHENY VALLEY VETERANS CENTER: $592,600 · Public BenefitALLEGHENY …STRAWBERRY FIELDS INC: $401,000 · HealthDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyLEVINE MUSIC INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNW WORKS INC: $38,000 · Employment
Education$2,015,000Human Services$1,832,280Other$1,443,700Public Benefit$592,600Health$401,000Philanthropy$250,000Arts & Culture$50,000Employment$38,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY: $2,000,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE FAINE HOUSE INC: $1,250,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetALLEGHENY VALLEY VETERANS CENTER: $592,600 over 1y, 83% of budgetSTRAWBERRY FIELDS INC: $401,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetWarren Area Refugee Resettlement Network Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES: $137,280 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Hardin: $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA LIFE PROVIDERS ALLIANCE: $60,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetLEVINE MUSIC INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNW WORKS INC: $38,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAIM SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Valley Hospice Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLAKESHORE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN7.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Lutheran Foundation for Long-Term Living funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lutheran Foundation for Long-Term Living. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Faine House Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Lutheran Foundation for Long-Term Living?

Find your warmest path to The Lutheran Foundation for Long-Term Living 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 28 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-PF 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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