Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC
ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,240,041 to it, the largest being CAMPBELL N FBO ET AL IR TUA ($467,528). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $619M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $141M
What Acts Retirement-Life Communities Inc does
Mission
Acts is committed to providing security and peace of mind to seniors by being the pre-eminent provider of retirement-life services, responsive to individual, social, personal, health and spiritual needs in a christian atmosphere graced with loving-kindness, dignity, sensitivity, honesty, and respect without prejudice or preference.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Acts provides comprehensive life care services to senior adults aged 62 and older that include independent living housing, dining and nutritional services, pastoral services, security, housekeeping, maintenance services and social, cultural, educational, spiritual and recreational activities. In addition, when a resident's health care needs change, acts offers home health, assisted living, skilled nursing care and hospice services. All physical accommodations and services are provided in its continuing care retirement communities under the terms of a formal lifecare agreement which also assures that assisted living and skilled nursing care will be provided to residents when they need it, without a change in their monthly fee, thereby offering further security and peace of mind. In 2024, acts served, on average, 7,229 residents in independent living, 812 residents in assisted living, and 1,004 residents in skilled care.
$518,501,491 spentof which $130,811 as grants$573,282,583 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $518,501,491.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.8B to $1.9B (+9%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
John L Esterhai Jr Md
Director & chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $145k → $155k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $25M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Acts Legacy Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 41% · 2019 48% · 2020 42% · 2021 36% · 2022 44% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
75% of ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 248 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $695k on record.
- GRANTS$694k
- REVENUE REFUND$2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Acts Acquisition and Development Company LLC · disregarded
- Acts Retirement Services Inc · exempt
- Acts Signature Community Services Inc · exempt
- Acts Management Services Inc · exempt
- Acts Legacy Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC?
- ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,240,041 to it, the largest being CAMPBELL N FBO ET AL IR TUA ($467,528). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,240,041 in grants to ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC?
- CAMPBELL N FBO ET AL IR TUA is the largest funder on record, with $467,528 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTS RETIREMENT-LIFE COMMUNITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing