Colorado · Nonprofit
EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER
EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,598,072 to it, the largest being JOSLIN-NEEDHAM FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,014,088). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center does
Mission
The Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center (the care center) was established to provide skilled nursing care, respite care, assisted living, independent living, and lifeline emergency response services to the see schedule o for continuationelderly and persons with special needs. The care center is certified for medicare and medicaid and is affiliated with the evangelical lutheran church of america.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Acquired four additional assisted living buildings.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Providing skilled nursing care, respite care, assisted living, independent living, and lifeline emergency response services to the elderly and persons with special needs. The care center also provides electronic monitoring services to individuals in their home.
$14,952,018 spentof which $4,849 as grants$13,880,797 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,952,018.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2018 to 2019, from $32M to $39M (+21%).
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 10% · 2021 5% · 2022 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Shelly Griffith
CEO
Board chair
Mark Frasier
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $452k → $21k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $8.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 87% · 2019 86% · 2020 76% · 2021 84% · 2022 71% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
91% of EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $470 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.1M
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 EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center Foundation · exempt
- Eben Ezer Lutheran Housing Center · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER: 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 EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER?
- EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,598,072 to it, the largest being JOSLIN-NEEDHAM FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,014,088). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,598,072 in grants to EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER?
- JOSLIN-NEEDHAM FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,014,088 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EBEN EZER LUTHERAN CARE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing