Concordia Lutheran Ministriesfoundation
Cabot, PA · EIN 20-5138266. Reported 204 grants totalling $20.4M to 114 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Concordia Lutheran Ministriesfoundation, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in health care -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE E11).
- How spread out its giving is. 114 distinct organizations, with 57% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 48% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,900. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,713 and the largest $11.6M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
2 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $7,993 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concordia Lutheran Ministries | Cabot, PA | $11.6M | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Compassion International Incorporated | Colorado Spgs, CO | $3,168,067 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Concordia Lutheran Health and Human Care | Cabot, PA | $1,492,106 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Good Samaritan Hospice of Pittsburgh | Valencia, PA | $470,893 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pittsburgh Area Lutheran Schools | Oakmont, PA | $442,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lutheran Church Missouri Synod | Saint Louis, MO | $331,210 | 9 | 4 | 2023 |
| Concordia Lutheran Ministries of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $330,036 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| St Luke Lutheran Church and School | Cabot, PA | $273,708 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fuller Center Disaster Rebuilders Inc | Americus, GA | $99,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| International Lutheran Laymens League | Saint Louis, MO | $82,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Community Health Clinic of Butlercounty Inc | Butler, PA | $76,450 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Royal Redeemer Lutheran Church | N Royalton, OH | $71,875 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Lighthouse Foundation | Valencia, PA | $69,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Faith Aid | Ashburn, VA | $66,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Concordia Hospice of Washington | Cabot, PA | $65,928 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pioneer Camp and Retreat Center Inc | Williamsville, NY | $64,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Philadelphia Lutheran Ministries Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $60,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Friends of Pioneer Inc | Angola, NY | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rebecca Residence | Allison Park, PA | $53,225 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Water Missions International | North Charleston, SC | $52,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lutheran Heritage Foundation | Macomb, MI | $52,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Zion Lutheran Church | Bridgeville, PA | $45,265 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Life Choices Inc | Kittanning, PA | $44,300 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lamp Ministry Inc | New Haven, MI | $42,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lutheran Social Service of the South Inc | Austin, TX | $42,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Lutherans in Medical Missions | Lees Summit, MO | $41,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Family Guidance Inc | Cranberry Twp, PA | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Stepping Stone Mission Inc | Duluth, GA | $38,250 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Austins Place | Butler, PA | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Get Hope Global | Denver, CO | $35,650 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pine Valley Bible Conference | Ellwood City, PA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Westmoreland County Food Bank Inc | Delmont, PA | $31,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Coalition for Christian Outreach | Pittsburgh, PA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Haven of Rest Ministries Incorporated | Akron, OH | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Orphan Grain Train Inc | Norfolk, NE | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Luke Foundation for Haiti | Alexandria, VA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hands of Mercy | Williamsburg, MI | $26,176 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Concordia Lutheran Church | San Antonio, TX | $25,250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Resurrection Lutheran Church | Spring, TX | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bethlen Home of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America | Ligonier, PA | $23,286 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | Duquesne, PA | $20,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Bridgeville Community Food Bank | Bridgeville, PA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Disciplemakers Inc | State College, PA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Peace With Christ Lutheran Church | Aurora, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pregnancy Care Centers | Pittsburgh, PA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| South Butler Community Library | Saxonburg, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Redeemer Lutheran School | Verona, PA | $13,995 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Christ Lutheran Church | Pittsburgh, PA | $13,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lutheran Ministries Media Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saxonburg Area Baseball Association | Saxonburg, PA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pittsburgh Area Lutheran Ministries | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Als Bike Drive | Allison Park, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Amachi Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Warrior Initiative Inc | Madison, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ascend Clinical Services | Rehrersburg, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Asian American Service Association Inc | Quincy, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bethesda Lutheran Church | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Blessings in a Backpack Inc | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Brothers Brother Foundation | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Calvary Lutheran Church | Murrysville, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicagoland Lutheran Educational Foundation | Bensenville, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Christian Jail Ministry Inc | Columbia, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Christian Sports International | Zelienople, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Concordia Theological Seminary | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Christ United Methodist Church | Bethel Park, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Christ the King Lutheran School | Kingwood, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch | Minot, ND | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| East End Cooperative Ministry | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Extreme Response International Inc | Snellville, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fairlawn Lutheran Church | Fairlawn, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| First Trinity Lutheran Church | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Food Helpers | Canonsburg, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Foster Love Project | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foundation for Christian Counseling | Greensburg, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Glade Run Foundation | Zelienople, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grace Youth and Family Foundation | Butler, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hope Lutheran Church | Levittown, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hosanna Industries Inc | Gibsonia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Its About the Warriors Foundation | Wexford, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Knoch Music Boosters | Saxonburg, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Light of Life Ministries Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lutheran Assoc of Missionaries and Pilots U S Inc | Brookfield, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lutheran Bible Translators Inc | Concordia, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lutheran Camp Association | Arcadia, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lutheran Church Missouri Synod | Frisco, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lutherans in Africa | Naperville, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marys Place Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mount Calvary Lutheran Chruch | Acton, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| North American Lutheran Church | Butler, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Partners in Education - Love Haiti | Kearney, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Presbyterian Church USA a Corp | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Saint Vincent Mission Inc | David, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Siberian Lutheran Mission Society Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| South Asia Lutheran Mission | Oakmont, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | Staten Island, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southwinds Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Pittsburgh Foundation | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Salvation Army | West Nyack, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trinity Deaf Lutheran Church | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Methodist Church Union | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wesley Family Services | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Shore Lutheran School Inc | Muskegon, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wounded Blue Foundation | Las Vegas, NV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yahve-Jire Childrens Foundation US | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Iglesia Cristiana Hispana Lutheran | Cleveland, OH | $9,750 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Humanitri | Saint Louis, MO | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| International Lutheran Council Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $8,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Global Lutheran Outreach Inc | Miramar, FL | $7,875 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mission Experience | Centennial, CO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lutherlyn | Prospect, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Muslims for the Messiah | Lombard, IL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
39 of 114 (34%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Concordia Lutheran Ministries
Donation to further the mission and corporate promise of Concordia Lutheran Minsitries (EIN 20-5138278) and its affiliates. - Compassion International
To provide sponsorship, including educational, basic needs, drought relief and pastoral guidance through sharing the Gospel, to sponsored children in Kenya and Ethiopia. - Concordia Lutheran Health and Human Care
Donation to further the mission and corporate promise of Concordia Lutheran Ministries (EIN 20-5138278) and its affiliates. - Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
Naumann Missionary Fund: To provide pastoral care for all LCMS missionaries and families serving in Latin America and the Caribbean and through the work of Rev. Dr. Jonathan and Deaconess Cheryl Naumann; Disaster Response (Haiti); Little Lambs Lutheran Preschool, Belize; Help for Displaced Ukrainians; and general support for the Mekane Yesus Seminary in Ethiopia - Pittsburgh Area Lutheran Schools
To provide scholarships for the PALS schools (three K-8; ten preschools) for those families that cannot afford tuition. Providing scholarships to families enables Lutheran schools to reach those in need as God instructed in Matthew 25:40. - St Luke Lutheran Church & School
To provide financial support of the Voice of Victory program via purchase of medical supplies, operating a medical clinic in constructing a school kitchen at the VOV center in Moshi, Tanzania; support of church school's fundraising golf outing; to provide support to assist the church school witness to children at The Lighthouse Foundation.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 76 of 114 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 48 | $2,095,890 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 44 | $1,733,338 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 57 | $2,396,014 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 55 | $14.2M | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
77% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,900 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Concordia Lutheran Ministriesfoundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 55 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 134 Marwood Road, Cabot, PA, 16023.
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