How much did LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE OF grant in FY2024?

LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE OF reported 32 grants totaling $547,734 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE OF based?

LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE OF is based in WI.

LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

The mission of the LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE OF north america is to be an informed voice of lutheran higher education and an active and effective standard-bearer for north american church-related higher education.

$548k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$17k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$16,598

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY$16,598
AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY$16,598
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - NE$16,598
WARTBURG COLLEGE$16,598
MIDLAND LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY$16,598
ST OLAF COLLEGE$16,598
WAGNER COLLEGE$16,598
WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY$16,598
GETTYSBURG COLLEGE$16,598
AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY - IL$16,598
CATHAGE COLLEGE$16,598
TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY$16,598
CAPITAL UNIVERSITY$16,598
NEWBERRY COLLEGE$16,598
SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY$16,598

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 72% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Lubbock Christian University

Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.

Education

Lincoln Memorial University

Lincoln memorial university is a values-based learning community dedicated to providing educational experiences in the liberal arts and professional studies.

Education

Heidelberg University

A community of learning that promotes and nurtures intellectual, personal and professional development leading to a life of purpose with distinction.

Education

Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.

Education

Columbia College

Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

Union University

Union University provides Christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education

Union College

Offer a college experience including education, housing, & associated programs in lincoln, ne.

Education

Union College

Union college is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the united methodist church

Education

Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

The Colorado College

To transform our students by providing the finest liberal arts education available, taught through the academically rigorous, immersive, and flexible block plan.

Education

Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education

Lourdes University

Lourdes university, rooted in catholic and franciscan traditions, provides a values-centered education that enriches lives and advances academic excellence.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Concordia College Corporation and the most unlike its peers is St Olaf College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 85 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/32

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,533

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/32

Grantees still filing

20/32

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$464,744Other$49,794Philanthropy$16,598

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Thrivent Charitable Impact & InvestingWI35.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Council of Independent Colleges · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Folds of Honor Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Tulsa Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE OF funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MIDLAND LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 470376551 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MIDLAND LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Lutheran Educational Conference Of?

Find your warmest path to Lutheran Educational Conference Of through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lutheran Educational Conference Of?

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LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lutheran Educational Conference Of?

More from the funding graph