Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MESSIAH LIFEWAYS
MESSIAH LIFEWAYS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,232 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($66,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $102k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Messiah Lifeways does
Mission
The organization's mission is to be a ministry that responsibly enhances the lives of older adults with christ-like love.continued on schedule "o".intentional and meaningful community life is central to achieving the organization's mission of living "life.embraced". We believe life can be enhanced when persons have opportunities to pursue their own growth with an inward journey of the body, mind and soul, have opportunities to journey outward and care for and share their hearts and hands with others, and have opportunities to joyously journey together with others and build respectful, participatory relationships.our dream is to inspire everyone 55 and better to more fully embrace life; to not fear growing older, but to re-imagine the journey of aging as a time of purpose, zest, and faith-filled living.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Messiah Lifeways provides management and support to messiah home, Messiah Lifeways community support services and messiah family services. The organization continues to advance a number of significant strategic initiatives. Progress continues to be made on the fernecrest project, a new residential living project located 6 miles from the messiah village campus. 131 units are anticipated to be constructed in a first phase of development on the campus. A ceremonial groundbreaking celebration was held in november 2024. In february 2024, the organization began accepting deposits for fernecrest apartments and cottages, and as of june 30, 2025, a total of 50 units were reserved. Management anticipates commencing construction of the project in 2026, once an appropriate number of number of units have been reserved. The pa office of budget named Messiah Lifeways as a recipient of $1million in funding through the 2024 redevelopment assistance capitalprogram (racp). Half of these dollars were allocated to the sitepreparation and construction of fernecrest, Messiah Lifeways' new 62+residential living community in new cumberland, pa and the other half is supporting hvac upgrades on the messiah…
$4,804,761 spentof which $16,500 as grants$7,630,800 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,804,761.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.1M to $4.4M (+42%).
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 MESSIAH LIFEWAYS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Karl J Brummer
President/CEO
Board chair
David Warren
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $24k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 MESSIAH LIFEWAYS’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
MESSIAH LIFEWAYS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 MESSIAH LIFEWAYS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 68% — 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.
Where its funders are
70% of MESSIAH LIFEWAYS'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 $31k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MESSIAH LIFEWAYS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MESSIAH LIFEWAYS
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Cenacle Consulting LLC · disregarded
- Messiah Home Dba Messiah Lifeways at Messiah Village · exempt
- Messiah Family Services Dba Messiah Lifeways at Mount Joy Country Homes · exempt
- Messiah Lifeways Community Support Services · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MESSIAH LIFEWAYS: 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 MESSIAH LIFEWAYS?
- MESSIAH LIFEWAYS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,232 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($66,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MESSIAH LIFEWAYS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $102,232 in grants to MESSIAH LIFEWAYS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MESSIAH LIFEWAYS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $66,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MESSIAH LIFEWAYS 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 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