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Lutheran Educational Conference of North America

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 FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 32 grants below total $531,136 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $547,734 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,598 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$16,598
Median grant
17
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETHANY COLLEGE$16,598
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - TX$16,598
CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY$16,598
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - WI$16,598
VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY$16,598
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE$16,598
CATHAGE COLLEGE$16,598
GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY$16,598
AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY$16,598
CAPITAL UNIVERSITY$16,598
WARTBURG COLLEGE$16,598
WAGNER COLLEGE$16,598
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - CA$16,598
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - NE$16,598
LUTHER COLLEGE$16,598
02The need
02

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - NE: $17k → 8%MIDLAND LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $17k → 11%GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $17k → 9%ST OLAF COLLEGE: $17k → 11%AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $17k → 11%CONCORDIA COLLEGE: $17k → 11%CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - MN: $17k → 14%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $17k → 9%SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $17k → 10%MUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $17k → 11%THIEL COLLEGE: $17k → 13%CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $17k → 10%CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - CA: $17k → 10%WAGNER COLLEGE: $17k → 11%TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $17k → 10%CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - TX: $17k → 10%NEWBERRY COLLEGE: $17k → 17%WARTBURG COLLEGE: $17k → 7%LUTHER COLLEGE: $17k → 10%GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY: $17k → 10%BETHANY COLLEGE: $17k → 10%CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - WI: $17k → 6%CATHAGE COLLEGE: $17k → 10%LENOIR-RYHNE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 12%VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY: $17k → 9%WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY: $17k → 15%CAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $17k → 15%PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $17k → 9%CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - IL: $17k → 14%AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY - IL: $17k → 15%ROANOKE COLLEGE: $17k → 8%AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY: $17k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 — 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.

1
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
2
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
3
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
4
Wisconsin Lutheran College Inc

Wisconsin lutheran college is a private, four-year liberal arts college.

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5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
Dordt University

As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…

Education
7
Bethany Lutheran College Inc

Bethany lutheran college provides christian higher education in a challenging academic environment where personal mentoring guides students to pursue knowledge, truth, and discernment for productive and fulfilling lives.

Education
8
Cornell College

Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
Eckerd College

The mission of eckerd college is to provide excellent innovative undergraduate liberal arts education and lifelong learning programs in the unique florida environment, within the context of a covenant relationship with the presbyterian…

Education
11
Lafayette College

Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…

Education
12
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midland University and the most unlike its peers is Roanoke 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%77%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%77%55yr+

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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,533

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 tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY — $16,598 · EducationGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE — $16,598 · EducationROANOKE COLLEGE — $16,598 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS — $16,598 · EducationTHIEL COLLEGE — $16,598 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — $16,598 · EducationWAGNER COLLEGE — $16,598 · EducationMUHLENBERG COLLEGE — $16,598 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO — $16,598 · EducationWARTBURG COLLEGE — $16,598 · EducationTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE — $16,598 · EducationMIDLAND UNIVERSITY — $16,598 · EducationLUTHER COLLEGE — $16,598 · EducationCARTHAGE COLLEGE — $16,598 · EducationLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY — $16,598 · EducationAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION — $16,598 · EducationPacific Lutheran University — $16,598 · EducationSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $16,598 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGE — $16,598 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $16,598 · EducationGRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY — $16,598 · EducationNEWBERRY COLLEGE — $16,598 · EducationCAPITAL UNIVERSITY — $16,598 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE — $16,598 · EducationAUGUSTANA COLLEGE — $16,598 · EducationBETHANY COLLEGE — $16,598 · EducationGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $16,598 · EducationTHE LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION INC — $16,598 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL — $16,598 · OtherCONCORDIA …TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY — $16,598 · OtherTEXAS LUTH…CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION — $16,598 · OtherCONCORDIA …CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $16,598 · Philanthropy
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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIEL COLLEGE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAGNER COLLEGE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARTBURG COLLEGE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDLAND UNIVERSITY — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Lutheran University — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $16,598 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWBERRY COLLEGE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL UNIVERSITY — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTANA COLLEGE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY COLLEGE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION INC — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION — $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 I…Thrivent Financial fo…Council of Independen…Folds of Honor Founda…Tulsa Community Found…National Collegiate A…Ibm International Fou…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Kpmg US Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…
Thrivent Charitable Impact & InvestingWI28.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 organization Lutheran Educational Conference of North America 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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