Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES
PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $594,571 to it, the largest being CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES OF PITTSBURGH ($220,900). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $291k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $595k
- Net assets
- $599k
What Pittsburgh Area Lutheran Ministries does
Mission
The mission of Pittsburgh Area Lutheran Ministries (PALM) is to facilitate cooperation among The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod congregations in the Pittsburgh region and outlying areas in supporting the church's mission work. PALM is a Recognized Service Organization of the LCMS.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grant fund allocations to local ministries, operational support for communication, public relations, liturgical celebrations, and direct mission expenses including the Holy Cross Food & Clothing distribution.
$209,187 spentof which $18,267 as grants100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $209,187.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $120k to $531k (+342%).
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.
98% of PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $126k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 funders by total. 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
PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 70% · 2021 73% · 2022 48% · 2023 40% — 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
86% of PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES: 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 PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES?
- PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $594,571 to it, the largest being CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES OF PITTSBURGH ($220,900). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $594,571 in grants to PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES?
- CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES OF PITTSBURGH is the largest funder on record, with $220,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PITTSBURGH AREA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), 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