Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,203,526 to it, the largest being WELLSPAN HEALTH ($401,304). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Lebanon County Christian Ministries does
Mission
Lebanon County Christian Ministries shares the love of jesus through food,shelter and connections to promote wellbeing and a healthy community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food bank - acquires and warehouses food and toiletries made available through donations and the purchase of food. The food bank provides food and toiletries to pantries for the distribution to individuals needing food assistance food pantry - in july of 2023, the food distribution model changed to the client choice model. This was branded "the market on 7th", a charitable food pantry. This provides a grocery market style environment where guests are able to make selections within the guidelines established by the leadership. Volunteers and staff received donated and purchased goods, inventory the items as appropriate, and stock the shelves like a grocery market. Individuals who present to the market on 7th are registered as per the guidlines of the usda/pa department of agriculture and are asked to self-declare their income to ensure those being served meet the guidelines.
$2,230,188 spentof which $1,237,816 as grants84% of program spendingLunch programs - free noon meal: a free lunch is served, seven days a week, at a city location. No pre-qualification is required to attend the free meals.
$76,441 spentof which $76,441 as grants3% of program spendingShelter: prior to february of 2024, the fresh start shelter operated in the cold shelter model with a resource center located at the main location of lccm. Guests would sleep at a designated location. In february of 2024, the new space for the shelter was opened at the chestnut street community center. This location is a single site for intake, daytime resources, and overnight sleeping accommodations. This location provides kitchen facilities, sleeping faclitites, laundry facilities and bathroom/shower facilities. The location is staffed 24/7 between staff and volunteers
$81,608 spent3% of program spendingOther client services - supplying assistance to people including cost of medical, utilities, transportation, shelter and household items.
$272,766 spentof which $270,206 as grants10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,661,003.
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.
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 $2.0M to $2.6M (+26%).
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 16% · 2018 14% · 2019 15% · 2020 18% · 2021 16% · 2022 11% · 2023 12% · 2024 10% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 5 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $170k → $195k.
9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES’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
LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% 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 LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2019 78% · 2020 19% · 2021 27% · 2022 36% · 2023 37% — 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
56% of LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES'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
94% of LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $341k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: 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 LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES?
- LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,203,526 to it, the largest being WELLSPAN HEALTH ($401,304). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,203,526 in grants to LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES?
- WELLSPAN HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $401,304 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES 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