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LUTHER FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY

LUTHER FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,054 to it, the largest being Forney Family Foundation Inc ($1,054). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$234k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$1.8M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Luther Foundation of Southern Chester County does

Mission

To provide housing for the elderly.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide funding and support to related organizations; luthern senior services of southern chester county(pa) inc., luther house ii, inc., luther house iii, inc., and luther iv, inc. The related organizations provide a total of 256 apartment units for low-income elderly persons.

    $138,071 spentof which $105,358 as grants$160,326 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $138,071.

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 ($270k) Expenses 100 ($140k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 76 ($205k) Expenses 69 ($96k) Net assets 111 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 86 ($232k) Expenses 41 ($58k) Net assets 128 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 88 ($236k) Expenses 65 ($91k) Net assets 143 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 89 ($239k) Expenses 179 ($250k) Net assets 142 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 84 ($227k) Expenses 61 ($85k) Net assets 156 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 79 ($214k) Expenses 73 ($102k) Net assets 167 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 87 ($234k) Expenses 103 ($144k) Net assets 176 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (87)Expenses (103)Net assets (176)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 2018 to 2019, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+16%).

$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.8M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of LUTHER FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (37% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,334 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$130k
’17
$109k
’18
$174k
’19
$145k
’20
−$11k
’21
$142k
’22
$112k
’23
$90k
’24
8.4
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed8910119898
Joined·+2+2+1+0+2+2+1
No longer listed·1102312
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of LUTHER FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY’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.

Where its funders are

100% of LUTHER FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

LUTHER FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like LUTHER FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

78%

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

  • Luther Ss of Sthn Chester County Pa · exempt
  • Luther House II Inc · exempt
  • Luther House III Inc · exempt
  • Luhter House IV Inc · exempt
  • Luther Mgt Co Sthn Chester County · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds LUTHER FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY?
LUTHER FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,054 to it, the largest being Forney Family Foundation Inc ($1,054). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LUTHER FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,054 in grants to LUTHER FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY.
Who is the largest funder of LUTHER FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY?
Forney Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,054 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LUTHER FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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