Which funders back the same organizations as Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, We Raise Foundation.

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Maryland · Public charity

Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge

Witnessing to god's love for all people, we stand with and advocate for migrants and refugees, transforming communities through ministries of service and justice.

$94M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 55
Grants FY2025: 50
Organizations funded FY2024: 12%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $500,427
Largest grant, FY2025: $34,600,216
Organizations funded a year: 39 to 50; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 31
Total assets, FY2025: $97M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalReligionPublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	55	$93M	13%
FY2024	50	$202M	12%
FY2023	50	$163M	20%
FY2022	44	$141M	7%
FY2021	48	$74M	17%
FY2020	40	$48M	5%
FY2019	39	$42M	3%
FY2018	39	$35M	3%

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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$668MHealth$28MReligion$20MInternational$11MCommunity Improvement$5.6MHousing & Shelter$5.3MCrime & Legal$2.2MYouth Development$862kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Bethany Christian Services	$134,898,266	3	n/a
Bethany Christian Services	$132,022,270	6	82%
Samaritas	$52,855,093	9	12%
Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas	$51,994,754	9	40%
Lutheran Services in America Incorporated	$36,571,237	3	46%
Lutheran Services Florida Inc	$35,222,069	9	3%
Inspiritus Inc	$32,859,735	8	38%
Lutheran Social Services of Colorado	$32,183,138	9	26%
Lutheran Social Services National Capital Areainc	$29,888,948	6	51%
Chris 180 Inc	$28,986,584	5	28%

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All grantees of Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Bethany Christian Services	$134,898,266	3	n/a
Bethany Christian Services	$132,022,270	6	82%
Samaritas	$52,855,093	9	12%
Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas	$51,994,754	9	40%
Lutheran Services in America Incorporated	$36,571,237	3	46%
Lutheran Services Florida Inc	$35,222,069	9	3%
Inspiritus Inc	$32,859,735	8	38%
Lutheran Social Services of Colorado	$32,183,138	9	26%
Lutheran Social Services National Capital Areainc	$29,888,948	6	51%
Chris 180 Inc	$28,986,584	5	28%
Lutheran Community Services Northwest	$25,941,465	8	10%
Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest	$18,545,104	9	20%
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota	$16,685,937	9	3%
Lutheran Family Services of Virginia Inc Dba Encircle	$14,727,899	7	8%
Refugee Services of Texas Inc	$13,255,786	7	11%
Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc	$12,865,025	9	9%
Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc	$12,741,822	6	16%
Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan Inc	$9,177,422	9	3%
Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida Inc	$9,020,946	9	29%
Ascentria Community Services Inc	$8,864,253	6	7%
Lutheran Services New England	$8,039,221	2	n/a
Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc	$7,839,471	9	3%
Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees Inc	$7,440,068	9	27%
Creative Solutions for Kids and Families Inc	$7,300,158	4	34%
Icna Relief USA Programs Inc	$6,763,391	4	7%
Canopy NWA	$6,403,334	9	40%
Lutheran Social Services of Metropolitan New York Inc	$6,339,702	9	2%
San Francisco Women's Centers	$5,414,226	9	40%
International Christian Adoptions Institute for Childrens Aid	$5,309,895	6	58%
Lutheran Service Association Inc	$4,437,116	1	n/a
Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota	$4,194,407	9	5%
Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services	$3,740,250	5	15%
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston	$3,006,818	9	1%
Lutheran Services New England	$2,699,916	1	n/a
Northern Virginia Family Services Inc	$2,646,900	9	1%
Associated Catholic Charities Inc	$2,574,716	9	0%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge Inc	$2,302,963	9	6%
Refugee and Immigrant Services & Education	$2,135,742	3	38%
Mosaic Family Services Inc	$1,620,593	9	4%
Jewish Vocational Service	$1,534,824	8	n/a
Lutheran Social Services of Nd	$1,532,329	5	5%
Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc	$1,485,580	9	5%
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio	$1,470,392	9	3%
St Ferdinand Outreach Center	$1,382,118	9	n/a
Catholic Charities of the Arcdiocese of Newark	$1,339,878	9	1%
Diakon Child Family & Community Ministries	$1,318,707	3	2%
Refugeeone	$1,196,672	5	11%
Community Legal Center	$1,124,501	9	20%
Youth for Tomorrow-New Life Center Inc	$1,119,464	2	1%
Lutheran Social Services of the South Inc	$882,554	2	0%
Catholic Charities of Tennessee Inc	$858,346	9	1%
Upbring	$804,431	4	n/a
Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas	$803,634	9	8%
Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc	$754,206	5	0%
Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc	$712,079	3	1%
Kennedy Krieger Institute Inc	$417,790	3	n/a
New American Community Lending Corporation	$373,221	1	53%
Catholic Charities Inc	$264,785	2	n/a
Catholic Diocese of Wilmington	$242,196	3	n/a
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc	$220,253	1	8%
Hispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama	$136,057	3	5%
Joint Development Associates International	$112,450	1	41%
National Partnership for New Americans	$75,000	1	3%
Young Woman's Christian Association	$69,506	1	n/a
Refugees Helping Refugees Inc	$53,075	1	n/a
Family and Children's Association Inc	$51,348	1	0%
Florence Crittenton Services of Orance County Inc	$49,650	3	0%
Lutheran Children and Family Service of Eastern Pennsylvania	$37,383	2	2%
Southwestern Texas Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church	$37,000	1	n/a
Hias Inc	$35,000	1	0%
Bismarck Global Neighbors	$31,691	1	4%
Global Friends Coalition	$24,902	1	n/a
Ansar of Pittsburgh Corp	$24,000	1	n/a
Church World Service Inc	$15,756	2	0%
The Wellspring Alliance for Families Inc	$11,849	1	0%
Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance	$10,900	1	n/a
Growing Together Community Gardens Llc	$6,000	1	8%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.

Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 61.

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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.

US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants IncVA44.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · We Raise Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · International Rescue Committee INC · Church World Service Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc · Ticket to Dream Foundation · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc

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 Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge

How much does Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge give?: Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge reported 55 grants totaling $94,149,096 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (90%), Health (4%), Religion (3%).
Who are Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bethany Christian Services ($135M), Bethany Christian Services ($132M), Samaritas ($53M).
Does Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, We Raise Foundation.
Where is Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge based?: Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge is based in MD.