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Lutheran Legacy Foundation Inc
LUTHERAN LEGACY FOUNDATION INC (llf) is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes, including making distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under sections 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $443k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $174k
- $250k+1 grant · $281k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOR THE LOVE OF AFRICA MINISTIRES | $281,000 |
| GRACE LUTHERAN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CE | $118,510 |
| CREAN LUTHERN HIGH SCHOOL | $55,817 |
| SIBERIAN LUTHERAN MISSION SOCIETY | $48,834 |
| NEW LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $39,400 |
| LESA | $37,192 |
| BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCH | $35,000 |
| MT OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| EVERGREEN LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $29,282 |
| GOD'S BLESSINGS | $22,000 |
| LIVING WORD LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF LUTHERAN SECONDARY S | $16,000 |
| LUTHERAN LEGACY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $15,500 |
| LUTHERAN SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FTFOR THE LOVE OF AFRICA MINISTRIES5× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +205% · 53% of their budget
- LMLAMP MINISTRY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $135k · revenue +20%
- LILUTHERAN ISLAND CAMP INC4× · 2017–2020 · $111k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- LSLEADACHILD SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -5%
- SPST PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $67k
- SJSAINT JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
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.
To help and preserve the legacy of our faith unto generations to come by teaching in africa to respond with biblical answers, not human philosophy.
Foster and support christian education.
None.
To support the world mission of the lutheran church-missouri synod.
A campus and neighborhood ministry sharing the love of jesus by outreach, education, & leadership development.
Seminary for students.
Lutheran Charities is a supporting organization of its member organizations and serves as a resource for church members, congregations, social ministry organizations and any other individual or organization
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
Grounded in lutheran theology, we strengthen lutheran leadership and ministries for the proclamation of the gospel.
To inspire people to embrace their callings in creation and community by connecting people with nature and faith.
Faith evangelical seminary exists to glorify god by equipping christian leaders with a biblical, theological, and practical education empowering them to apply and proclaim the inerrant word of god for world-wide christian service.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 92 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FOR THE LOVE OF AFRICA MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Siberian Lutheran Mission Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Elementary School Association ↗
- Who funds LAMP MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE LUTHERAN SCHOOL ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN ISLAND CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds LEADACHILD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL IL LUTHERAN CAMP ↗
- Who funds THE LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN BRAILLE WORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE PLACE RETREAT MINISTRIES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans-Group · Concordia Lutheran Ministriesfoundation · Theodore W Batterman Family Foundation Inc · We Raise Foundation · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Horizons · Tulsa Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lutheran Legacy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lutheran Legacy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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