Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH
ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,044,399 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE W RENTSCHLER FOUNDATION ($200,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Eldernet of Lower Merion and Narberth does
Mission
Eldernet provides a safety net for older and disabled adults to help them remain in their homes with dignity, and strengthens food and financial security for all community members in need of support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For nearly 50 years, Eldernet of Lower Merion and Narberth has served the local community by helping to ensure that low to moderate income local seniors (age 60+) and adults with disabilities can lead full and independent lives and remain in their homes and community. Eldernet continues to ensure that our neighbors' basic needs are met while also building relationships across boundaries and providing the social interactions that are proven to improve the quality and life expectancy of older adults. Eldernet to decreases older adult isolation, provides hunger relief, broadens access to health care, and promotes the financial stability and independence that allows older adults to age safely in their homes. With our extensive network of volunteers, eldernet offers three main programs to those who qualify: volunteer services, community resource center and food pantry, and care management services. All eldernet's programs are free to participants who are first screened for eligibility by social workers in our care management department. Volunteer serviceseldernet volunteers drive participants to medical appointments and other essential errands. They visit participants in their homes…
$606,589 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $606,589.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.6M (+46%).
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: 2017 22% · 2018 20% · 2019 26% · 2020 15% · 2021 27% · 2022 25% · 2023 26% · 2024 15% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $53k → $92k.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
31% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 56% · 2019 33% · 2020 33% · 2021 37% · 2022 44% · 2023 60% — 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
50% of ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
87% of ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $241k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: 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 ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH?
- ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,044,399 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE W RENTSCHLER FOUNDATION ($200,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,044,399 in grants to ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH?
- THE GEORGE W RENTSCHLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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