Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES
ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $632,982 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($229,988). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $633k
- Net assets
- $584k
What Elizabethtown Community Housing & Outreach Services does
Mission
To address the holistic needs of our neighbors experiencing housing insecurity and insufficient income by mobilizing the community, connecting resources, and providing support to promote stability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Echos enrichment center is a pivotal space dedicated to lancaster community members where they can access support in navigating systems and develop skill to reach stability. The center provides a welcoming, low-barrier space to clients to access essential resources, individualized case advocacy, connections to community partners, and re-housing support.
$181,583 spent20% of program spendingEchos housing stability programs use interventions to provide long-term supportive services that assist clients in obtaining and maintaining independent housing.
$540,852 spent$23,882 earned by the program61% of program spendingEchos runs elizabethtown emergency shelter, utilizing a low-barrier model, provides life-saving refuge during the coldest months, open from early december through early april. Here, up to 42 individuals, including families, are given a safe place to sleep, hnot meals, and access to community resources. Beyond providing shelter, echos focuses on dignity and support, offering showers, laundry and hygiene supplies alongside comprehensive case management.
$171,194 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $893,629.
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 2020 to 2021, from $492k to $928k (+89%).
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: 2018 76% · 2019 78% · 2020 46% · 2021 57% · 2022 65% · 2023 55% · 2024 45% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES’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. 3 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.
Board chair
Deborah Riley
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $23k → $100k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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
ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 62% · 2022 53% · 2023 28% — 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
50% of ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
78% of ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $139k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $494k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES is better cushioned 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
Government funding ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $662k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$662k
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 ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES
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
78% 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 1 related entity
- Echos Properties Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES: 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 ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES?
- ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $632,982 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($229,988). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $632,982 in grants to ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES?
- LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $229,988 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 15 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