· Public charity
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA expresses the love of christ for all people through service that inspires hope, changes lives and builds community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $2,090,775 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,573,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,482,725 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $89k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $602k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RISE INCORPORATED | $336,265 |
| OASIS FOR YOUTH | $266,039 |
| KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MN | $220,790 |
| MINNESOTA COUNCIL OF CHURCHES | $219,144 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MN | $193,217 |
| ARRIVE MINISTRIES | $154,949 |
| AVIVO | $140,241 |
| THE LINK | $132,812 |
| AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $114,640 |
| AIN DAH YUNG CENTER | $112,926 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $103,909 |
| MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL AID | $34,700 |
| ST CROIX FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC | $24,424 |
| MOVEFWD INC | $19,813 |
| BOOTH BROWN HOUSE | $10,200 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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 +45% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RIRISE INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +28%
- ADAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $788k · revenue +124%
- OFOASIS FOR YOUTH8× · 2017–2024 · $595k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- ZLZION LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $100k
- YYOUTHLINKone grant, 2019 · $19k · revenue -23%
- RLRED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANSone grant, 2022 · $18k
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.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.
Partners for Affordable Housing is missioned to provide shelter for homeless families and individuals and help them secure economically viable long term housing. The Organization owns and operates a number of scattered site housing…
Twin Cities R!SE transforms the lives of participants overcoming socio-economic hurdles - including unemployment, underemployment, or justice involvementthrough Personal Empowerment, career training, and meaningful employment.
The mission of matrix housing services is to deliver high-quality programs and well rounded services for people experiencing homelessness.
VEAP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, multi-service, human service organization with the mission of "Together, we create pathways to stronger, more hopeful, communities through access to healthy food, housing stability and supportive services."
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Minnesota Recovery Connection's mission is to strengthen the recovery community through peer-to-peer support, public education and advocacy.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
Minnesota housing partnership (mhp) expands housing and community development opportunity by leading collaborative work to promote systems change and grow develoopment capacity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movefwd Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youthlink. 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 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 26 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 RISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER ↗
- Who funds OASIS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds CAPI USA ↗
- Who funds KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ARRIVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AVIVO ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Bridging Inc ↗
- Who funds MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds MOVEFWD INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Target Foundation · BCBSM Foundation Inc · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · Edina Realty 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 Social Service of Minnesota 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.