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GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE

GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,368 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($46,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$55M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$141k
Net assets
$41M
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Garden Spot Village does

Mission

Inspired by the life of jesus, we cultivate vibrant community for purposeful living. Garden Spot Village is a lifeplan community that provides services to independent living, skilled nursing, and personal care (assisted living) residents. Our value proposition states "we facilitate abundant opportunities to live with purpose in community".

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided residential cottage and apartment living facilities for an average daily census of over 900 individuals. Provided skilled nursing care in 4 households that are dually certified for medicare and medicaid, with a total of 73 beds. Over $1,197,000 of charity care was provided. The personal care and memory support units operated with an average daily census of 99 and provided uncompensated care to 10 individuals at a cost exceeding $471,000.

    $43,411,437 spentof which $1,301,271 as grants$51,097,465 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $43,411,437.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($35M) Expenses 100 ($35M) Net assets 100 ($19M)2018 Revenue 105 ($37M) Expenses 102 ($36M) Net assets 112 ($21M)2019 Revenue 108 ($38M) Expenses 104 ($36M) Net assets 116 ($22M)2020 Revenue 114 ($40M) Expenses 109 ($38M) Net assets 72 ($14M)2021 Revenue 120 ($42M) Expenses 119 ($42M) Net assets 110 ($21M)2022 Revenue 136 ($48M) Expenses 123 ($43M) Net assets 140 ($26M)2023 Revenue 135 ($48M) Expenses 130 ($46M) Net assets 166 ($31M)2024 Revenue 148 ($52M) Expenses 138 ($48M) Net assets 196 ($37M)2025 Revenue 155 ($55M) Expenses 146 ($51M) Net assets 219 ($41M)
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Revenue (155)Expenses (146)Net assets (219)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $150M to $170M (+13%).

$147M
$147M
$150M
$170M
$181M
$178M
$180M
$184M
$203M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$332k
’17
$1.4M
’18
$1.8M
’19
$1.9M
’20
$725k
’21
$5.0M
’22
$1.9M
’23
$4.1M
’24
$3.6M
’25
2.7
months of
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

Stephen Lindsey

CEO

Board chair

Jeff Goss

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed677789191920
Joined·+1+0+0+2+4+14+2+2
No longer listed·00013421
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $5k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE’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

GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

76% 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 GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE.

33%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

71% of GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE'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 $41k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve2.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 14%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Gsv LLC · disregarded
  • Garden Spot Village of Akron · exempt
  • Garden Spot Communities · exempt
  • Frederick Mennonite Community · exempt
  • Trellisworks · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE?
GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,368 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($46,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $141,368 in grants to GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $46,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GARDEN SPOT VILLAGE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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