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Central Lutheran Foundation

The foundation supports the community on behalf of Central Lutheran Church in Eugene, OR . The foundation funds missions, provides scholarships and makes grants to charitable and community organizations.

$90k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$33k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$11,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 6
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$3.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Central Lutheran Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$33k25%
FY20224$41k0%
FY20216$49k33%
FY20205$31k40%
FY20195$53k0%
FY20185$40k20%
FY20175$38kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$132kHealth$64kInternational$39kHousing & Shelter$25kHuman Services$15kPhilanthropy$6kFood & Nutrition$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Central Lutheran Church$121,5008n/a
Camp Lutherwood Association$58,5008n/a
India Partners$38,90580%
Bags of Love$15,00041%
Eugene Mission Inc$10,00020%
United Way of Lane County$6,00010%
Food for the Poor Inc$5,40010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Central Lutheran Foundation

How much does Central Lutheran Foundation give?
Central Lutheran Foundation reported 4 itemized grants totaling $33,305, out of $90,259 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Central Lutheran Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (46%), Health (22%), International (14%).
Who are Central Lutheran Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Central Lutheran Church ($122k), Camp Lutherwood Association ($59k), India Partners ($39k).
Does Central Lutheran Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Central Lutheran Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Central Lutheran Foundation based?
Central Lutheran Foundation is based in OR.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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