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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $65M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $-25594399
What Spiritrust Lutheran Fka Lutheran Social Services does
Mission
Spiritrust lutheran, an agency of the evangelical lutheran church in america, witnesses to the gospel of jesus christ through acts of serving and caring.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Established in 1951, spiritrust lutheran provides residential and assisted living, nursing, and rehabilitation services in six senior living communities located in york, shrewsbury, gettysburg, hanover, and chambersburg, pennsylvania. In addition to the six retirement communities, spiritrust lutheran works in partnership with local organizations, congregations, volunteers, donors, education providers, and the business community. The organization provides various community outreach services including domestic abuse solutions, financial education and coaching, senior companion, stephen ministry, touch-a-life programs, and volunteer income tax assistance. Spiritrust lutheran life, a wholly-owned subsidiary of spiritrust lutheran established in 2006, offers seniors 55 years and older health care alternatives to residency in a skilled nursing facility through comprehensive medical and social services that are provided by a team of health professionals at a spiritrust lutheran life health center, the participants' homes, and/or an inpatient facility. Life lutheran services operations commenced in 2008. Home care and hospice services are provided throughout franklin, perry, dauphin,…
$58,737,026 spent$62,936,659 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $58,737,026.
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 2023 to 2024, from $142M to $126M (−11%).
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
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
Melissa Frownfelter
Interim president, CEO/COO
Board chair
Robert A Bowen
Board member - chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 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
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· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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
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
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
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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.
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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 26 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