Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LOCKING ARMS MEN
LOCKING ARMS MEN (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $319,890 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($196,340). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $197k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $320k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Locking Arms Men does
Mission
Locking Arms Men (lam or the corporation) is a domestic not-for-profit corporation chartered by the commonwealth of pennsylvania on december 1, 2014. Lam is a nondenominational men's christian organization founded with the primary purpose of helping men build strong, godly relationships through fellowship with other men and to develop authentic men who love god, love one another and love their neighbor. The corporation's purpose is the advancement of a lifestyle demonstrated in spiritual community with other men who strengthen one another and who promote authentic manhood through spiritual formation, true christian community and sacrificial service to others. Lam's mission of equipping men has a threefold emphasis: love jesus, love their neighbor, and to make disciples.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ministry and support of projects in the dominican republic:service to others is strongly encouraged as an important element of spiritual growth. Mission trips to the dominican republic to serve the poor in the sugar cane villages (haitian villages called bateys) in support of del rey ministries and meeting god in missions.
$56,667 spent$1,320 earned by the program38% of program spendingThe organization holds christian retreats which provide worship, equipping and fellowship. During 2024 the organization held two christian retreats.
$44,740 spent$6,890 earned by the program30% of program spendingMens christian ministry through weekly and monthly meetings:each week the organization holds 3-5 small group meetings for men in and around the city of pittsburgh. The goal of these "huddles" is to help men to experience the grace and healing power of christ in a spiritual community of brothers. Bible study, prayer and group discussion assist men to break destructive attachments like chemical dependency, gambling, explosive anger and pornography. The organization's monthly events are designed to attract new men to our community or for continued faith-building through outreach breakfasts, baseball games, marriage enrichment dinners, cigar dinners, football game/tailgate, campout weekends and retreats.
$45,992 spent$1,899 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $147,399.
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 2021 to 2022, from $45k to $19k (−57%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of LOCKING ARMS MEN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $48k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 LOCKING ARMS MEN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
LOCKING ARMS MEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 LOCKING ARMS MEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 59% · 2019 60% · 2020 64% · 2021 71% · 2022 46% · 2023 68% — 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.
Where its funders are
81% of LOCKING ARMS MEN'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 $60k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LOCKING ARMS MEN receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $320k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LOCKING ARMS MEN
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
87%
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 LOCKING ARMS MEN: 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 LOCKING ARMS MEN?
- LOCKING ARMS MEN (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $319,890 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($196,340). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOCKING ARMS MEN have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $319,890 in grants to LOCKING ARMS MEN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOCKING ARMS MEN?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $196,340 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOCKING ARMS MEN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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