Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES
SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,967,030 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY ($564,371). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.0M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,286 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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.
- White Rose Leadership Instituteshared funderslocal
- Leadingage Incportfolio match
- Lutheran Services in America Incorporatedportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 4% · 2021 16% · 2022 3% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $232k → $142k.
5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES’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
SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 33% · 2019 49% · 2020 38% · 2021 35% · 2022 26% · 2023 25% — 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
67% of SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
57% of SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $431k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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 26 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- White Rose Leadership Instituteshared funderslocalPA · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 53 organizations near you
- Leadingage Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lutheran Services in America Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Health Care Association Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George H Campbell Lillian S Campbell Andportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leadingage Minnesota Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Walter L Schautz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Long Term Care Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lycoming County United Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Bouma Sr and Sharon K Bouma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theresa & Edward O'Toole Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $787k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$690k
- Department of the Treasury$97k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Lss LLC · disregarded
- Chambersburg Housing Inc · exempt
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America · exempt
- Spiritrust Lutheran Life · exempt
- Spiritrust Lutheran Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: 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 SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES?
- SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,967,030 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY ($564,371). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,967,030 in grants to SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES?
- UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $564,371 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 26funders 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