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Luthern Military Support Group Inc

Lutheran military support group provides christ-centered support to military families through educational events that promote spiritual and mental health, suicide prevention, and purpose after military service. Grants are awarded to wels and els veterens pursuing ministry, promote community appreciation, and provide access to…

$3k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
5
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$500
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,500
Organizations funded a year
5 to 15
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
4
Total assets, FY2023
$64k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Luthern Military Support Group Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionEducationOther
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
FY20235$3k100%
FY20226$28k67%
FY20219$17k44%
FY20209$21k44%
FY201911$21k55%
FY201815$80kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Religion$106kEducation$43kArts & Culture$7kHealth$6kHuman Services$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kCommunity Improvement$2kEmployment$500

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
MI
OH
CA
UT
VA
NC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Time of Grace Ministry$14,00020%
Martin Luther College$1,5001n/a
Bethany Lutheran College Inc$1,00010%
Bethany Lutheran Church$1,0001n/a
Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church$1,0003n/a

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($152k), not named here.

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…Amazonsmile Foundation
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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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Find your warmest path to Luthern Military Support Group Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Luthern Military Support Group Inc

How much does Luthern Military Support Group Inc give?
Luthern Military Support Group Inc reported 5 grants totaling $3,250 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Luthern Military Support Group Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (62%), Education (25%), Arts & Culture (4%).
Who are Luthern Military Support Group Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Time of Grace Ministry ($14k), Martin Luther College ($2k), Bethany Lutheran College Inc ($1k).
Does Luthern Military Support Group Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Luthern Military Support Group Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Luthern Military Support Group Inc based?
Luthern Military Support Group Inc is based in WI.

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 38 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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