· Public charity
Lutheran Services Florida Inc
Lutheran services florida brings god's healing, hope, and help to people in need in the name of jesus christ.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 99 grants below total $248,305,713 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $261,124,174 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,818,461 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k30 grants · $4.1M
- $250k+64 grants · $244M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC | $34,746,374 |
| LIFESTREAM BEHAVIORAL CENTER INC | $32,991,909 |
| SMA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC | $30,965,504 |
| MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER INC | $17,530,637 |
| SMA HEALTHCARE FKA THE CENTERS | $17,193,203 |
| GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $16,283,649 |
| FLAGLER HOSPITAL INC | $9,123,393 |
| CLAY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER INC | $8,484,933 |
| BAYCARE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC | $7,009,336 |
| EPIC COMMUNITY SERVICE INC | $6,386,776 |
| STARTING POINT BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE | $5,136,435 |
| CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC | $4,864,682 |
| DAYSPRING VILLAGE INC | $4,311,687 |
| ALACHUA COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS | $3,343,952 |
| HALIFAX HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER DBA HALIFAX HEALTH | $3,070,986 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $62.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
116 repeat relationships — 89 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 9 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $815k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SHSMA HEALTHCARE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $262M · revenue +95% · 49% of their budget
- MBMERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $204M · revenue +58% · 52% of their budget
- LBLifestream Behavioral Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $194M · revenue +36% · 49% of their budget
Funded once
- SDSCHOOL DISTRICT OF PALM BEACH COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $4.2M
- HHHispanic Human Resources Councilgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.9M · revenue +32% · 66% of their budget
- FFFLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INCone grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Our mission is a seamless, accessible, recovery-oriented system of behavioral health care driven by consumers, providers, and other stakeholders, in which innovation and collaboration are the norm and diversified financial resources…
Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"
Our mission is to establish a continuum of care for mental health made up of private and public funders, mental health providers and individuals who work in collaboration to increase access, decrease duplication, and facilitate community…
Henderson behavioral health, inc. and subsidiaries (the organization) provides behavioral health care throughout broward and palm beach counties, the treasure coast and okeechobee. the organization charges fees based upon its patients'…
To provide primary care and behavioral health services to children, adults, and families in south florida across a broad range of health services and community-based programs; and to oversee the coordinated child welfare system of care…
Tri-county human services shall endeavor to provide an array of highquality human services consistent with the needs of the community.services shall be provided in a cost effective, ethical, andprofessional manner and shall focus on…
To provide mental health services for miami dade county residents and to provide training for mental health professionals and practioners.
House of hope's mission is to provide the tools to achieve recovery from addiction and address mental health issues while transforming lives, families and communities. house of hope provides hope for the future and healing to those in need…
Since its creation in 1974, south county mental health center, inc. "center" has brought quality mental health and substance abuse care to our communities in a manner which enhances and preserves human dignity. through local support,…
The organization was formed in 1996 to provide a variety of effective treatment services to individuals and families who are affected by mental health, substance abuse disorders and co-occuring disorders
It is the mission of psycho-social rehabilitation center, inc. d/b/a fellowship house ("fellowship house") to assist adults with severe and persistent psychiatric disabilities, including individuals that also have co-occurring substance…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Behavioral Health Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Ora Clubhouse Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 154 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SMA HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds Lifestream Behavioral Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CLAY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BayCare Behavioral Health Inc ↗
- Who funds EPIC Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds NASSAU COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH ALCOHOLISM DBA STARTING POINT BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds Flagler Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PAR INC ↗
- Who funds HANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CDS FAMILY & BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX PROGRAMS OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds RIVER REGION HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds IM SULZBACHER CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ZERO HOUR LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Inspire To Rise Inc ↗
- Who funds Van Gogh's Palette Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Southeast Florida Behavioral Health Network Inc · Northeast Florida Healthcare Coalition Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Childnet Inc · Camelot Community Care Inc · Community Partnership for Children Inc · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Florida Alcohol & Drug Abuse Assoc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lutheran Services Florida Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ywca of Palm Beach County — 72% of income from government
- Hernando County Community Anti Drug Coalition — 38% of income from government
- Volusia Recovery Alliance Inc — 28% of income from government
- Community Rehabilitation Center in — 26% of income from government
- Volusiaflagler County Coalition for the Homeless Inc — 25% of income from government
- Im Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless Inc — 23% of income from government
- Jericho Road Ministries Inc — 21% of income from government
- Project Health Inc — 19% of income from government
- Taskforce Fore Ending Homelessness Inc — 17% of income from government
- Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Ability Housing Inc — 14% of income from government
- Managed Access to Child Health Inc D/B/a Partnership for Child Health — 13% of income from government
- Operation New Hope Inc — 13% of income from government
- Mid Florida Homeless Coalition Inc — 13% of income from government
- Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc — 12% of income from government
- United Way of Suwannee Valley Inc — 12% of income from government
- Dbwpc Inc — 10% of income from government
- Rebel Recovery Florida Inc — 8% of income from government
- Sma Healthcare Inc — 8% of income from government
- Phoenix Programs of Florida Inc — 8% of income from government
- Meridian Behavioral Healthcare Inc — 7% of income from government
- Gateway Community Services Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Lifestream Behavioral Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- The House Next Door Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cds Family & Behavioral Health Services — 4% of income from government
- Epic Community Services Inc — 4% of income from government
- Youth Crisis Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- United Way of North Central Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Coalition Alliance Inc — 3% of income from government
- BayCare Behavioral Health Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mental Health Resource Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nassau County Mental Health Alcoholism Dba Starting Point Behavioral Healthcare — 1% of income from government
- Inspire to Rise Inc — 1% of income from government
- Clay Behavioral Health Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Flagler Cares Inc — 0% of income from government
- ReNew Recovery Cafe Inc — 0% of income from government
- Flagler Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Urban Jacksonville Inc — 0% of income from government
- Camelot Community Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Genesis Health Inc — 0% of income from government
- Zero Hour Life Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gainesville Opportunity Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Osceola Mental Health Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bay Area Youth Services Inc — 0% of income from government
- Marion Senior Services Inc — 0% of income from government
- Operation Par Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.