· Public charity
Lutheran Services in America Incorporated
Lutheran services in america mission: cultivate caring communities that advance health and opportunity for all by building valuable connections, amplifying our voices and empowering our members in their mission to answer god's call to love and serve our neighbor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $968k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMMANUEL LUTHERAN COMMUNITIES | $396,450 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $311,624 |
| LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST | $296,883 |
| AK CHILD AND FAMILY | $232,392 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $210,036 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA | $196,447 |
| LYNGBLOMSTEN SERVICES INC | $189,683 |
| ENCIRCLE | $82,500 |
| MISSOURI SLOPE LUTHERAN | $57,143 |
| ST JOHNS LUTHERAN MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| ST JOHNS LUTHERAN MINISTRIES | $16,250 |
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, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k 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
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +78%
- MSMissouri Slope Lutheran Care Center Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $652k · revenue +33%
- ILIMMANUEL LIVING AT BUFFALO HILL2× · 2024–2025 · $641k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- SPSUNSET PARK HEALTH COUNCIL INCone grant, 2023 · $91k · revenue +7%
- LCLUTHERAN CONNECTION INCone grant, 2019 · $69k
- TLTHE LUTHERAN CARE NETWORK INCone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +2%
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.
Provide long-term nursing care for the aging and faith-based services to enrich the lives of older adults.
To provide nursing home care, residential care, and affordable housing for the elderly
To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.
To provide services and facilities for people whose capabilities and needs vary widely. lcc strives to make the lives of people more independent, healthful, meaningful and secure through development of innovative programs delivered with…
The lutheran home, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.
To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.
"luthercare reflects christ's love through service to others." our mission is to enhance the quality of life through creative senior living opportunities, family life through quality child care and early learning centers, appropriate…
To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.
Our mission is to provide person-centered services based on christian values.
Through the power of the holy spirit and in response to god's love as revealed in the gospel, the mission of lutheran social ministries of nj is to serve those who hurt, who are in need, or who have limited choices through an array of…
Lutheran homes of south carolina, inc. operates as a mission partner of the sc synod of the evangelical lutheran church in america to promote the well-being of older adults by providing residential, health care, and hospice services.
Provide long-term skilled nursing care services to individuals through its skilled nursing facility. Provide housing and assistance with daily living to seniors through its assisted living units.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Senior Services and the most unlike its peers is Sunset Park Health Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds IMMANUEL LIVING AT BUFFALO HILL ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Community Services Northwest ↗
- Who funds LYNGBLOMSTEN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSET PARK HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VIRGINIA INC DBA ENCIRCLE ↗
- Who funds THE LUTHERAN CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Gemma Services ↗
- Who funds GRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HOMES SOCIETY 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: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 in America Incorporated 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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