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LUTHERAN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
LUTHERAN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,383 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($37,383). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girlsshared funders
- Lutheran Services in America Incorporatedportfolio match
- George H Campbell Lillian S Campbell Andportfolio match
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.
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 86% · 2018 83% · 2019 84% · 2020 89% · 2021 96% · 2022 92% · 2023 78% · 2024 76% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $28k → $30k.
From the IRS filings of LUTHERAN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN 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 CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 0% · 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
LUTHERAN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA draws 53% 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. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 331 organizations that share them.
- Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girlsshared fundersPA · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- Lutheran Services in America Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George H Campbell Lillian S Campbell Andportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Lancaster Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Steinman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard S & Ann B Barshinger Family Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Walter L Schautz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friends Foundation for the Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saunders House Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Incshared funderslocalPA · backs 83 organizations that share your funders · funds 350 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LUTHERAN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Liberty Lutheran Foundation · exempt
- Liberty Lutheran Services · exempt
- Mary J Drexel Home · exempt
- Artman Lutheran Home · exempt
- Liberty Village · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUTHERAN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA?
- LUTHERAN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,383 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($37,383). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $70,383 in grants to LUTHERAN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA?
- LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE is the largest funder on record, with $37,383 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN 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.
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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing