Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA
THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,749 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY ($33,206). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What The Lutheran Service Society of W Pa does
Mission
With christ's guidance, lutheran service society offers programs that empower our neighbors to lead independent, dignified, and secure lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Senior centers - lutheran service society manages two senior community centers, each offering a variety of programs and activities that promote a healthy lifestyle including: nutritious lunch; classes and workshops -exercise, dance, arts & crafts, computers, prevention workshops and wellness programs; silver sneakers and silver and fit programs; and other services including flu shots, farmer's market vouchers, income tax assistance, safe driving classes, and apprise health insurance counseling.
$658,672 spent$875,194 earned by the program52% of program spendingAdoption services - lutheran service society offers more than 80 years of adoption experience to children and families in western pennsylvania. Professional services are provided to families who have adopted or who are seeking to adopt domestic infants, older american children, children with special needs and international children.adoption services include: guiding families through the adoption process with a free orientation; providing support services after placement; and offering comprehensive training and important resources.
$344,828 spent$510,795 earned by the program27% of program spendingFood and nutrition services (meals on wheels) - lutheran service society's meals on wheels program focuses on two primary components: nutrition and daily home visits. Each day, serving over 100 home bound elderly and/or disabled persons throughout the beaver county area of western pennsylvania, individuals receive two meals per day delivered to their home. The meals are nutritionally balanced for the dietary needs of senior adults. In addition, each driver makes a face-to-face visit to each client to check on their well-being (meals are not left at the door.) a payment is requested to offset the cost of the meals and delivery. Individuals who cannot pay are not turned away but are paid by fund raising endeavors in the community.
$274,136 spent$228,984 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,277,636.
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 $3.4M (+9%).
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 43% · 2018 11% · 2019 8% · 2020 7% · 2021 8% · 2024 2% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA’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. 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
David J Fenoglietto
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Pastor Brandon Johns
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $21.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $37k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Marine Biological Laboratory). These are real filings, and they are not money THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA raised.
From the IRS filings of THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA’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
THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA holds deeper cash reserves 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 THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 21 related entities
- Luthern Seniorlife · exempt
- St John Lutheran Care Center · exempt
- Luther Court Inc · exempt
- Passavant Retirement and Health Center · exempt
- Las Geriatric Care Services Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA?
- THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,749 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY ($33,206). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $41,749 in grants to THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA?
- UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $33,206 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF W PA 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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