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Lutheran Educational Conference of North America at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $531,136, the rows itemized in this filing. The $547,734 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,598 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$16,598
Median grant
17
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LENOIR-RYHNE UNIVERSITY$16,598
LUTHER COLLEGE$16,598
MIDLAND LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY$16,598
SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY$16,598
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - NE$16,598
VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY$16,598
TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY$16,598
NEWBERRY COLLEGE$16,598
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - TX$16,598
WAGNER COLLEGE$16,598
WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY$16,598
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - MN$16,598
CONCORDIA COLLEGE$16,598
CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY$16,598
BETHANY COLLEGE$16,598
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
NE
VA
KS
NC
SC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midland University; 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.
03the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

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

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROANOKE COLLEGE: $16,598 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS: $16,598 · EducationGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $16,598 · EducationCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $16,598 · EducationWAGNER COLLEGE: $16,598 · EducationMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $16,598 · EducationTHIEL COLLEGE: $16,598 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO: $16,598 · EducationWARTBURG COLLEGE: $16,598 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY: $16,598 · EducationMIDLAND UNIVERSITY: $16,598 · EducationTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE: $16,598 · EducationLUTHER COLLEGE: $16,598 · EducationCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $16,598 · EducationLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $16,598 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGE: $16,598 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $16,598 · EducationAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $16,598 · EducationNEWBERRY COLLEGE: $16,598 · EducationSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $16,598 · EducationGRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY: $16,598 · EducationPacific Lutheran University: $16,598 · EducationCAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $16,598 · EducationAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $16,598 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE: $16,598 · EducationGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $16,598 · EducationBETHANY 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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 budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN 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 budgetTHIEL 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 budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY: $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDLAND UNIVERSITY: $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE: $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 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 budgetAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWBERRY COLLEGE: $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY: $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Lutheran University: $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE: $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY COLLEGE: $16,598 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION INC: $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION: $16,598 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lutheran Educational Conference of North America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lutheran Educational Conference of North America. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 32 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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