Wittenberg Lutheran Village Inc

Analysis

Wittenberg Lutheran Village Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Crown Point, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1974, 52 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Wittenberg Lutheran Village Inc reported income of $1.7m and spending of $5.3m, spending 306% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $13.6m to $1.7m (-87%), an average of -40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income dropped by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 129% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Wittenberg Lutheran Village Inc sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation ($1.7m), Billings Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc ($1.7m) and Dia de LA Mujer Latina Inc ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.5% and program service revenue 72% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.7m. At year end it held assets of $8.5m against liabilities of $52.9m, net assets of -$44.4m. It reported 211 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.