Illinois · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES
LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,397 to it, the largest being PHILIP F SCHOCH TUW ($51,597). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $79k
- Net assets
- $-8731049
What Lutheran Life Communities does
Mission
Empowering vibrant grace filled living across all generations. Providing residential and health care services to seniors including benevolent care to those who have exhausted their financial funds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Development of new and innovative services for seniors and providing strategic management services to affiliates.
$4,419,480 spent$5,470,177 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,419,480.
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 2019 to 2020, from $12M to $27M (+127%).
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.
0% of LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Board chair
Michael Renetzky
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $26k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $94k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lutheran Home and Services for the Aged Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES raised.
From the IRS filings of LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES’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 LIFE COMMUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 92% · 2019 64% · 2020 68% · 2021 100% — 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
LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 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.
Against its field
LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- Lutheran Home and Services for the Aged Inc · exempt
- Lutheran Home for the Aged Inc · exempt
- Lutheran Community Services for the Aged Inc · exempt
- Lutheran Foundation for the Aged Inc · exempt
- Lutheran Life Ministries · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES: 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 LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES?
- LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,397 to it, the largest being PHILIP F SCHOCH TUW ($51,597). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $79,397 in grants to LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES?
- PHILIP F SCHOCH TUW is the largest funder on record, with $51,597 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 4 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