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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.

$17M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$233k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$3.2MHousing & Shelter$1.6MYouth Development$769kEmployment$562kInternational$520kEducation$320kCommunity Improvement$206kFood & Nutrition$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $902,688, the rows itemized in this filing. The $16,913,217 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,010,529 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $850k
$155,538
Median grant
1
States reached
$102M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RISE INCORPORATED$233,475
THE LINK$203,478
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$163,209
OASIS FOR YOUTH$155,538
AIN DAH YUNG CENTER$93,929
ST CROIX FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC$26,623
MOVEFWD INC$18,341
PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES$8,095
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $163k → 11%FACE TO FACE HEALTH AND COUNSELING SERVICE: $60k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $104k → 11%FACE TO FACE HEALTH AND COUNSELING SERVICE: $54k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $81k → 11%FACE TO FACE HEALTH AND COUNSELING SERVICE: $22k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $41k → 11%FACE TO FACE HEALTH AND COUNSELING SERVICE: $21k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $35k → 11%FACE TO FACE HEALTH AND COUNSELING SERVICE: $18k → 14%TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $110k → 11%FACE TO FACE HEALTH AND COUNSELING SERVICE: $17k → 14%TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM: $84k → 11%FACE TO FACE HEALTH AND COUNSELING SERVICE: $14k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MN: $193k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MN: $162k → 14%AIN DAH YUNG CENTER: $78k → 14%AIN DAH YUNG CENTER: $66k → 14%AIN DAH YUNG CENTER: $147k → 14%THE LINK: $203k → 11%AIN DAH YUNG CENTER: $131k → 14%THE LINK: $136k → 11%AIN DAH YUNG CENTER: $113k → 14%THE LINK: $133k → 11%AIN DAH YUNG CENTER: $102k → 14%THE LINK: $131k → 11%AIN DAH YUNG CENTER: $94k → 14%THE LINK: $75k → 11%AIN DAH YUNG CENTER: $77k → 14%THE LINK: $70k → 11%AIN DAH YUNG CENTER: $73k → 14%KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MN: $221k → 14%KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MN: $171k → 14%AVIVO: $148k → 11%AVIVO: $140k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $19k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 23 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
3

Total granted

$8.2M
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
-23%

Still filing today

87%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationEmploymentInternationalHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RI
    RISE INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +28%
  • AD
    AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $882k · revenue +124%
  • OF
    OASIS FOR YOUTH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $750k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • ZL
    ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • Y
    YOUTHLINK
    one grant, 2019 · $19k · revenue -23%
  • RL
    RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS
    one grant, 2022 · $18k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
2
Partners for Affordable Housing

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…

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3
Matrix Housing Services

The mission of matrix housing services is to deliver high-quality programs and well rounded services for people experiencing homelessness.

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4
Touchstone Mental Health

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…

Human Services
5
Twin Cities Rise

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.

Employment
6
Minnesota Recovery Connection

Minnesota Recovery Connection's mission is to strengthen the recovery community through peer-to-peer support, public education and advocacy.

Human Services
7
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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8
Minnesota Housing Partnership

Minnesota housing partnership (mhp) expands housing and community development opportunity by leading collaborative work to promote systems change and grow develoopment capacity.

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9
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.

Community Improvement
10
Minnesota Valley Action Council Inc

Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.

Community Improvement
11
Hired

Hired's mission is to nurture purpose and advance economic opportunity for all through individualized employment and career services. as a workforce development agency, hired provides direct employment counseling, career training, and…

Employment
12
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movefwd Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $881,854 · Human ServicesAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTERTHE LINK: $748,142 · Human ServicesTHE LINKCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $424,072 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUDKAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA: $391,553 · Human ServicesKAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTAINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $355,571 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTAAVIVO: $288,062 · Human ServicesAVIVOFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc: $205,719 · Human ServicesFace to Face Health and Counseling Service IncTRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $193,645 · Human ServicesTRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC+1 more: $18,910 · Human ServicesOASIS FOR YOUTH: $750,323 · OtherOASIS FOR YOUTHMINNESOTA COUNCIL OF CHURCHES: $375,426 · OtherMINNESOTA COUNCIL OF CHURCHESARRIVE MINISTRIES: $315,238 · OtherARRIVE MINISTRIESSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC: $266,728 · OtherSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INCPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $214,348 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIESUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $119,362 · OtherZION LUTHERAN CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherBridging Inc: $93,708 · Other+3 more: $142,267 · Other+3 moreRISE INCORPORATED: $1,337,632 · EmploymentRISE INCORPORATEDCAPI USA: $519,833 · InternationalAFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $200,546 · EducationMOVEFWD INC: $86,154 · EducationST CROIX FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $245,540 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $19,091 · Community Improvement
Human Services$3,507,528Other$2,377,400Employment$1,337,632International$519,833Education$286,700Housing & Shelter$245,540Community Improvement$19,091

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRISE INCORPORATED: $1,337,632 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $881,854 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetOASIS FOR YOUTH: $750,323 over 9y, 18% of budgetTHE LINK: $748,142 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCAPI USA: $519,833 over 2y, 16% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $424,072 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetKAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA: $391,553 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $355,571 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetARRIVE MINISTRIES: $315,238 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetAVIVO: $288,062 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC: $266,728 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetST CROIX FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $245,540 over 6y, 15% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $214,348 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc: $205,719 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $200,546 over 2y, 12% of budgetTRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $193,645 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBridging Inc: $93,708 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMOVEFWD INC: $86,154 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $77,118 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $19,091 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $18,910 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD ↗
  • 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 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 MOVEFWD INC ↗
  • Who funds MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗

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.

Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Pohlad Family Foundat…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Greater Twin Cities U…Fr Bigelow FoundationTarget FoundationBCBSM Foundation IncPatrick and Aimee But…Edina Realty Foundati…
Otto Bremer TrustMN38.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 26 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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