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Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri

Through christ's love, we empower chidren and families to overcome challenges today so they can build a better tomorrow.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Itemized grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$3.0M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$101,513
Largest grant, FY2024
$708,061
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$13M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

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PhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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 arriving11$3.0M36%
FY20237$2.6M0%
FY20228$2.8M38%
FY20216$1.5M17%
FY20205$1.6Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$10MHealth$1.3M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc$3,066,456511%
Good Shepherd Children & Family Services$3,055,940510%
Children's Home Society of Missouri$1,259,07153%
Missouri Baptist Children's Home$1,230,42557%
Bringing Families Together$1,061,3474n/a
Lutheran Family and Children's Services Foundation$1,000,000168%
Good Samaritan Boys Ranch$286,75731%
Positive Impacts$256,6852n/a
Sts Joachim and Ann Catholic Church St Charles$114,7763n/a
Whole Kids Outreach Inc$59,86413%
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All grantees of Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc$3,066,456511%
Good Shepherd Children & Family Services$3,055,940510%
Children's Home Society of Missouri$1,259,07153%
Missouri Baptist Children's Home$1,230,42557%
Bringing Families Together$1,061,3474n/a
Lutheran Family and Children's Services Foundation$1,000,000168%
Good Samaritan Boys Ranch$286,75731%
Positive Impacts$256,6852n/a
Sts Joachim and Ann Catholic Church St Charles$114,7763n/a
Whole Kids Outreach Inc$59,86413%
New Madrid County Human Resources Council$31,0271n/a
Community Partnership of the Ozarks Inc$22,08710%
Nurses for Newborns$8,64810%

Where it is load-bearing

Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCatholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc: $3,066,456 over 5y, 11% of budgetGood Shepherd Children & Family Services: $3,055,940 over 5y, 10% of budgetChildren's Home Society of Missouri: $1,259,071 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetMissouri Baptist Children's Home: $1,230,425 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetLutheran Family and Children's Services Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetGood Samaritan Boys Ranch: $286,757 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWhole Kids Outreach Inc: $59,864 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCommunity Partnership of the Ozarks Inc: $22,087 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNurses for Newborns: $8,648 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Missouri Children's Trust FundMO20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Missouri Children's Trust Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri

How much does Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri give?
Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri reported 13 itemized grants totaling $2,964,320, out of $3,359,059 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (89%), Health (11%).
Who are Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc ($3.1M), Good Shepherd Children & Family Services ($3.1M), Children's Home Society of Missouri ($1.3M).
Does Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Missouri Children's Trust Fund, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri based?
Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri is based in MO.

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 13 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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