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Lutheran Social Services of ND

Guided by god's love and grace, Lutheran Social Services of ND brought healing, help, and hope.

$1.1M
Granted FY2021
12
Itemized grants FY2021
10
Organizations funded FY2021
30%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$161k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$14,510
Largest grant, FY2021
$27,126
Organizations funded a year
10 to 13
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$303k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 30% of the organizations Lutheran Social Services of ND funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21
Human ServicesCommunity Improvement
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
FY202110$161k30%
FY201910$342k0%
FY201811$290k0%
FY201713$318kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$385kHealth$308kEmployment$286kHuman Services$112kCommunity Improvement$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
South East Education Cooperative$293,9404n/a
Family Healthcare Center$206,43440%
West Fargo Public Schools Agency$125,7804n/a
Afro American Development Association$105,830418%
Grand Forks Public School District$66,1214n/a
Somali Community Development of North Dakota Inc$51,5003n/a
Global Friends Coalition$47,27933%
Missouri River Educational Cooperative$39,8004n/a
City of Fargo$39,6433n/a
Spectra Health$33,69020%
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All grantees of Lutheran Social Services of ND by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
South East Education Cooperative$293,9404n/a
Family Healthcare Center$206,43440%
West Fargo Public Schools Agency$125,7804n/a
Afro American Development Association$105,830418%
Grand Forks Public School District$66,1214n/a
Somali Community Development of North Dakota Inc$51,5003n/a
Global Friends Coalition$47,27933%
Missouri River Educational Cooperative$39,8004n/a
City of Fargo$39,6433n/a
Spectra Health$33,69020%
City of Grand Forks$27,7822n/a
Ndscs$27,1963n/a
South Sudanese Foundation$20,00014%
Bhutanese Buddha Society of North Dakota$9,8831n/a
Kirat Cultural Society of North Dakota$9,8671n/a
Bismarck Global Neighbors$6,00016%

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.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring FoundationND21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Sanford Group Return · United Way of Cass-Clay · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Lutheran Social Services of ND

How much does Lutheran Social Services of ND give?
Lutheran Social Services of ND reported 12 itemized grants totaling $160,802, out of $1,131,041 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Lutheran Social Services of ND fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (35%), Health (28%), Employment (26%).
Who are Lutheran Social Services of ND's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: South East Education Cooperative ($294k), Family Healthcare Center ($206k), West Fargo Public Schools Agency ($126k).
Does Lutheran Social Services of ND fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lutheran Social Services of ND?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation, North Dakota Community Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
Where is Lutheran Social Services of ND based?
Lutheran Social Services of ND is based in MN.

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 16 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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