Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN CAMPING CORPORATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
LUTHERAN CAMPING CORPORATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,241 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($106,218). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $158k
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Lutheran Camping Corporation of Central Pennsylvania does
Mission
To provide religious experiences that encourage faith formation, christian leadership development, and spiritual renewal through summer camp and retreat ministry through which our campers experience the church in a place apart; where god's presence is experienced, faith is renewed, christ's love is felt and the church is strengthened for the service and proclamation of the gospel.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Three outdoor ministry sites, kirchenwald, nawakwa, and wittle farm provide religious experiences and education through summer church camp programs and year round retreat ministry. Summer campers at kirchenwald: 473. Summer campers at nawakwa: 894. Congregational summer day campers: 10. Lcc is committed to providing summer camp experiences to children regardless of their financial situation and provided $33,613 in campership support to 78 children from families requesting assistance.the retreat ministry serves churches, families, schools and other groups. Kirchenwald served 1,221 retreat guests at 60 retreats. 3,315 guests attended 106 retreats at nawakwa. 38 guests attended 11 retreats at wittel farm. Additionally, lcc conducted 21 events which served 795 persons.
$1,447,336 spent$867,635 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,447,336.
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 $4.6M to $5.2M (+13%).
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 18% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Michael Youse
Executive director
Board chair
Rev Drahomir Oslik
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $22k → $20k.
6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 LUTHERAN CAMPING CORPORATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA’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
LUTHERAN CAMPING CORPORATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LUTHERAN CAMPING CORPORATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 72% · 2020 94% · 2021 86% · 2022 95% · 2023 55% — 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
25% of LUTHERAN CAMPING CORPORATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
LUTHERAN CAMPING CORPORATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like LUTHERAN CAMPING CORPORATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUTHERAN CAMPING CORPORATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA?
- LUTHERAN CAMPING CORPORATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,241 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($106,218). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN CAMPING CORPORATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $158,241 in grants to LUTHERAN CAMPING CORPORATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN CAMPING CORPORATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA?
- Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is the largest funder on record, with $106,218 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN CAMPING CORPORATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA 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 9 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