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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 FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
31
States reached
$35M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $181k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+34 grants · $91M
$500,427
Median grant
31
States reached
$97M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES OF MICHIGAN$34,600,216
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES IN THE CAROLINAS$6,088,424
LUTHERAN MINISTRIES OF GEORGIA$4,214,662
LUTHERAN SERVICES NEW ENGLAND$3,868,940
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VA INC$3,785,988
LUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA$3,750,126
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MICHIGAN$3,495,022
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF ROCKY MOUNTAINS$3,238,807
LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA$3,107,823
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON$2,880,949
LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA$2,327,487
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA$1,845,598
ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC$1,763,627
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKA INC$1,575,561
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK$1,528,440
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $289.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKA INC: $3.4M → 12%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $5.4M → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $1.9M → 14%MOHAWK VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER FOR REFUGEES: $2.2M → 16%LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA: $12.1M → 13%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $5.1M → 10%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MICHIGAN: $8.6M → 21%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON: $6.8M → 12%CHRIS 180: $8.9M → 14%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $5.3M → 9%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VA INC: $4.6M → 8%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKA: $2.9M → 12%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $3.9M → 11%LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA: $6.5M → 13%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $3.4M → 10%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MICHIGAN: $8.6M → 21%CHRIS 180: $8.7M → 14%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $2.7M → 9%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VIRGINIA: $4.0M → 8%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $1.8M → 11%LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA: $5.9M → 13%LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA: $2.3M → 10%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MICHIGAN: $7.9M → 21%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON: $2.9M → 12%CHRIS 180: $8.1M → 14%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $2.5M → 9%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VA INC: $3.8M → 8%ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3.0M → 7%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $14.0M → 14%LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA: $3.1M → 13%SAMARITAS: $7.8M → 21%CHRIS 180: $1.9M → 14%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $2.3M → 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $6.4M → 14%LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA: $2.5M → 13%SAMARITAS: $5.8M → 21%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $2.3M → 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $3.7M → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MICHIGAN: $3.5M → 21%CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS & FAMILIES: $3.8M → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $2.1M → 14%SAMARITAS: $3.3M → 21%CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS & FAMILIES: $2.7M → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $1.9M → 14%SAMARITAS: $2.7M → 21%SAMARITAS: $2.4M → 21%SAMARITAS: $2.2M → 21%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1.9M → 14%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

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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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$812M · 60 repeat orgs$21M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
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Total granted

$812M
$21M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
0%

Still filing today

85%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionInternationalCommunity ImprovementHealthCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BC
    BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES
    6× · 2017–2022 · $132M · revenue +75% · 82% of their budget
  • S
    SAMARITAS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $53M · revenue +8%
  • LF
    Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas
    9× · 2017–2025 · $52M · revenue +81% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • LM
    LUTHERAN MINISTRIES OF GEORGIA
    one grant, 2023 · $8.1M
  • LF
    LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2023 · $4.9M
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SERVICE ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $4.4M · revenue +42%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
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.

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2
Catholic Charities Community Services Inc

Helping our community's most vulnerable with solutions that permanently improve lives. we serve people of all faiths, backgrounds, and abilities with more than 20 programs in a service area covering 67,000 square miles.

Human Services
3
Catholic Social Services

To promote the physical, spiritual and mental welfare of persons in need in the community.

Human Services
4
Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida

Catholic charities carries out the social mission of the catholic church in northwest florida to serve, empower, and advocate for vulnerable families and individuals of any race, religion, or national origin.

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5
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Atlanta Inc

Catholic charities atlanta (cca), provides supportive services that enable families to overcome barriers and achieve self-sufficiency. 87% of clients are low income. cca ensures that vulnerable individuals can attain economic…

Human Services
6
Amigos En Cristo Inc

Amigos center provides stability to families and the community by providing expert immigration legal services at a low cost or pro bono rate.

Community Improvement
7
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne - South Bend Inc

Catholic charities serves those in need with special emphasis on the most vulnerable populations: the poor, disabled, immigrants, elderly, and children. we are committed to improving the quality of life for the individual, the family, and…

Human Services
8
Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri

Inspired by the gospel of the beatitudes as proclaimed by Jesus Christ, Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri is committed to providing care and creating hope for the lives of the vulnerable through compassionate social…

Human Services
9
The Lutheran Service Society of New York

The lutheran service society of new york is a not-for-profit organization providing various social services to individuals and families in the western new york area. these services include programs for the developmentally disabled and…

Community Improvement
10
Catholic Social Services

To perform the works of mercy in response to the call of god. our corporal works of mercy performed primarily include providing food, clothing, shelter, and prison ministry. our spiritual works of mercy performed primarily include…

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11
Luminus Network Inc

To help ensure equitable access to legal immigration services and community resources and opportunities for immigrants.

Human Services
12
Catholic Charities of Buffalo

For 100 years, catholic charities of buffalo has been providing hope for the most vulnerable and in need in our community. catholic charities is one of the most comprehensive human services organizations serving all eight counties of…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest; the most unlike its peers is Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
54/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $132,022,270 · Human ServicesBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICESSAMARITAS: $52,855,093 · Human ServicesSAMARITASLutheran Family Services in the Carolinas: $51,994,754 · Human ServicesLutheran Family Services in the CarolinasLUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA INC: $35,222,069 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA INCLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAINC: $29,888,948 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAINCCHRIS 180 INC: $28,986,584 · Human ServicesCHRIS 180 INCLutheran Community Services Northwest: $25,941,465 · Human ServicesLutheran Community Services NorthwestLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $16,685,937 · Human Services+31 more: $105,156,387 · Human Services+31 moreBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $134,898,266 · OtherBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICESLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO: $32,183,138 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLOR…REFUGEE SERVICES OF TEXAS INC: $13,255,786 · OtherREFUGEE SERVICES OF TEXAS INCLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $9,020,946 · Other+25 more: $55,274,377 · Other+25 moreLUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA INCORPORATED: $36,571,237 · ReligionLUTHERAN SER…Inspiritus Inc: $32,859,735 · ReligionInspiritus I…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST: $18,545,104 · ReligionLUTHERAN SOC…+1 more: $1,196,672 · ReligionICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $6,763,391 · Public Safety & DisasterCanopy NWA: $6,403,334 · Community Improvement+1 more: $136,057 · Community ImprovementINTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID: $5,309,895 · InternationalAsylee Women Enterprise Inc: $220,253 · International+2 more: $50,756 · InternationalMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,620,593 · Health
Human Services$478,753,507Other$244,632,513Religion$89,172,748Public Safety & Disaster$6,763,391Community Improvement$6,539,391International$5,580,904Health$1,620,593

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $132,022,270 over 6y, 82% of budgetSAMARITAS: $52,855,093 over 9y, 12% of budgetLutheran Family Services in the Carolinas: $51,994,754 over 9y, 40% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA INCORPORATED: $36,571,237 over 3y, 46% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA INC: $35,222,069 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetInspiritus Inc: $32,859,735 over 8y, 38% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO: $32,183,138 over 9y, 26% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAINC: $29,888,948 over 6y, 51% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC: $28,986,584 over 5y, 28% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest: $25,941,465 over 8y, 9.6% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST: $18,545,104 over 9y, 20% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $16,685,937 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VIRGINIA INC DBA ENCIRCLE: $14,727,899 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetREFUGEE SERVICES OF TEXAS INC: $13,255,786 over 7y, 11% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $12,865,025 over 9y, 9.4% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $12,741,822 over 6y, 16% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC: $9,177,422 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $9,020,946 over 9y, 29% of budgetASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $8,864,253 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $7,839,471 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetMOHAWK VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER FOR REFUGEES INC: $7,440,068 over 9y, 27% of budgetCREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC: $7,300,158 over 4y, 34% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $6,763,391 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetCanopy NWA: $6,403,334 over 9y, 40% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC: $6,339,702 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERS: $5,414,226 over 9y, 40% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID: $5,309,895 over 6y, 58% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $4,194,407 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES: $3,740,250 over 5y, 15% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $3,006,818 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,646,900 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $2,574,716 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE INC: $2,302,963 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetREFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES & EDUCATION: $2,135,742 over 3y, 38% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,620,593 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND: $1,532,329 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $1,485,580 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetCatholic Charities Southwestern Ohio: $1,470,392 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK: $1,339,878 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetDIAKON CHILD FAMILY & COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $1,318,707 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $1,196,672 over 5y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $1,124,501 over 9y, 20% of budgetYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC: $1,119,464 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC: $882,554 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC: $858,346 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of Southwest Kansas: $803,634 over 9y, 8.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $754,206 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetKENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER INC: $712,079 over 3y, 1.4% 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.

  • Who funds BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
  • Who funds Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds Inspiritus Inc ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAINC ↗
  • Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
  • Who funds Lutheran Community Services Northwest ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VIRGINIA INC DBA ENCIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE SERVICES OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
  • Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER FOR REFUGEES INC ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Canopy NWA ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENS AID ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES & EDUCATION ↗

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 Refu…Thrivent Financial fo…We Raise FoundationThrivent Charitable I…Dollar General Litera…International Rescue …Church World Service …Rockefeller Philanthr…Catholic Legal Immigr…Ticket to Dream Found…In-N-Out Burgers Foun…Center for Disaster P…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc: 62% of income from government
  • Asylee Women Enterprise Inc: 26% of income from government
  • New American Community Lending Corporation: 19% of income from government
  • Lutheran Services Florida Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of the Arcdiocese of Newark: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 80 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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