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· Private foundation

Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
92
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$316k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$8.8MEducation$5.5MHuman Services$2.7MFood & Nutrition$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MHealth$766kHousing & Shelter$651kEmployment$467kOther$0
02FY2024 · 92 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $901k
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $3.0M
  • $250k+1 grant · $316k
$30,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$129M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING$316,223
WISCONSIN LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE$189,418
SERENITY INNS INC$184,473
LUTHER SEMINARY$168,000
LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MILWAUKEE$156,750
FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN$150,500
GRACE IN ACTION - MLI$150,500
LUTHERAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES$131,000
EBENEZER STONE MINISTRIES INC$127,376
THE LUTHERAN HOME FOUNDATION INC$110,000
VIBRANT FAITH MINISTRIES$105,000
CROSS LUTHERAN CHURCH$101,000
PASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$94,500
JOBSWORK MKE (FORMERLY MILWAUKEE COMM BUSINESS COLLABORATIVE)$91,635
Individual grant recipient$91,000
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 (FY20–24, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VIBRANT FAITH MINISTRIES: $105k → 6%MR BOBS UNDER THE BRIDGE INC: $357 → 6%THE HOPE CENTER APPLETON: $50k → 7%VIBRANT FAITH MINISTRIES: $88k → 6%MR BOBS UNDER THE BRIDGE INC: $223 → 6%VIBRANT FAITH MINISTRIES: $88k → 6%ABLELIGHT: $50k → 8%VIBRANT FAITH MINISTRIES: $68k → 6%VIBRANT FAITH MINISTRIES: $62k → 6%ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $61k → 10%ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $45k → 10%ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $40k → 10%ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $38k → 10%ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $36k → 10%DATA YOU CAN USE: $10k → 5%EBENEZER STONE MINISTRIES INC: $152k → 5%EBENEZER STONE MINISTRIES INC: $127k → 5%EBENEZER STONE MINISTRIES INC: $77k → 5%EBENEZER STONE MINISTRIES INC: $42k → 5%DATA YOU CAN USE: $10k → 17%DATA YOU CAN USE: $5k → 17%UNITED LUTHERAN PROGRAM FOR THE AGING INC: $44k → 17%WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER MILWAUKEE: $250 → 17%WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER MILWAUKEE: $250 → 17%SERENITY INNS INC: $184k → 17%SERENITY INNS INC: $130k → 17%SERENITY INNS INC: $108k → 17%SERENITY INNS INC: $99k → 17%SERENITY INNS INC: $99k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%MR BOB'S UNDER THE BRIDGE INC: $258 → 17%LUTHERAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES: $141k → 17%LUTHERAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES: $131k → 17%LUTHERAN COUNSELING & FAMILY SERVICES: $130k → 17%LUTHERAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES: $129k → 17%LUTHERAN COUNSELING & FAMILY SERVICES: $44k → 17%JOBSWORK MKE: $96k → 17%JOBSWORK MKE: $84k → 17%JOBSWORK MKE: $83k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN & UPPER MICHIGAN: $143k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN: $75k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN & UPPER MICHIGAN: $60k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN & UPPER MICHIGAN: $59k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN: $45k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
IA
IN
MO
VA
MD
NM
NC
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 103 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

103 repeat relationships: 71 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
72

Total granted

$20M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+7%

Still filing today

31%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +108%
  • FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $754k · revenue +56%
  • SERENITY INNS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $621k · revenue +247%

Funded once

  • GI
    GRACE IN ACTION - MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $101k
  • MO
    MT OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • UL
    UNITY LUTHERAN CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $69k
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
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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2
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
3
Lss Foundation Inc

Supporting the tax exempt purpose of lutheran social services of wisconsin and upper michigan, inc.

Housing & Shelter
4
Martin Luther Home Corporation

To provide healthcare and other related services for aging persons regardless of the ability of residents to pay for these services.

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5
Watertown Lutheran Senior Housing Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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6
The Lutheran Home Inc

The lutheran home, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.

Health
7
The Lutheran Home Association Foundation

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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8
God Touch Milwaukee Inc

God is touching the people we serve by giving them hope through godly teaching, mentoring, and hands-on practical opportunities such as employment.

Crime & Legal
9
Lutheran Social Services of the South Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of child abuse by empowering children, families and communities.

Human Services
10
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
11
Wisconsin Independent Christian School Inc

Valley christian school pursues educational excellence through christ centered programs to produce servant leaders.

Education
12
Cap Services Inc

Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lutheran Home Association; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

59 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. 59 of the 196 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WISCONSIN LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE INC: $889,451 · OtherWISCONSIN LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE INCLUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MILWAUKEE: $687,456 · OtherCROSS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $555,898 · OtherST MARCUS LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $532,996 · OtherRACINE LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL: $476,392 · OtherREDEEME LUTHERAN CHURCH: $465,114 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $449,873 · Other+149 more: $9,364,149 · Other+149 moreSERENITY INNS INC: $620,837 · Human ServicesSERENITY INNS I…LUTHERAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES: $573,550 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN COUNSE…VIBRANT FAITH MINISTRIES: $410,391 · Human ServicesVIBRANT FAITH M…Ebenezer Stone Ministries Inc: $398,393 · Human ServicesEbenezer Stone …LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC: $382,053 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL…JOBSWORK MKE INC: $263,139 · Human ServicesJOBSWORK MKE IN…ELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $219,643 · Human ServicesELCA OUTREACH C…+8 more: $180,626 · Human Services+8 moreCENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING INC: $1,274,936 · EducationCENTER FO…Grace in Action: $255,316 · EducationGrace in …CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC: $154,297 · EducationCONCORDIA…CARTHAGE COLLEGE: $92,464 · Education+5 more: $95,680 · EducationPASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $382,016 · ReligionWISCONSIN INMATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $301,982 · ReligionChaplains in Schools Inc: $201,955 · ReligionTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY: $160,789 · ReligionWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC: $140,000 · ReligionFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $753,647 · Food & NutritionJUST ONE MORE MINISTRY INC: $278,582 · Food & NutritionPROJECT RETURN INC: $398,981 · HealthBREAD OF HEALING INC: $244,214 · Health+3 more: $157 · HealthLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC: $337,986 · Youth DevelopmentJACARRIE KICKS FOR KIDS INC: $112,900 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT KINDRED INC: $26,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $25 · Youth Development
Other$13,421,329Human Services$3,048,632Education$1,872,693Religion$1,186,742Food & Nutrition$1,032,229Health$643,352Youth Development$476,911

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING INC: $1,274,936 over 5y, 13% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $753,647 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSERENITY INNS INC: $620,837 over 5y, 18% of budgetLUTHERAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES: $573,550 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetVIBRANT FAITH MINISTRIES: $410,391 over 5y, 19% of budgetPROJECT RETURN INC: $398,981 over 5y, 18% of budgetEbenezer Stone Ministries Inc: $398,393 over 4y, 43% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC: $382,053 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $382,016 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC: $337,986 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetWISCONSIN INMATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $301,982 over 5y, 15% of budgetWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $293,695 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUST ONE MORE MINISTRY INC: $278,582 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetJOBSWORK MKE INC: $263,139 over 3y, 12% of budgetGrace in Action: $255,316 over 2y, 15% of budgetBREAD OF HEALING INC: $244,214 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetELCA OUTREACH CENTER: $219,643 over 5y, 11% of budgetChaplains in Schools Inc: $201,955 over 5y, 13% of budgetLUTHERAN HOME FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY: $160,789 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC: $154,297 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC: $140,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetJACARRIE KICKS FOR KIDS INC: $112,900 over 4y, 14% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $92,464 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $87,600 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNEWTHREADS OF HOPE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWISCONSIN PHILANTHROPY NETWORK INC: $61,800 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetABLELIGHT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER APPLETON INC: $50,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetKINGSPATH SENIOR MINISTRIES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSHINING STAR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCAMP AMNICON FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNITED LUTHERAN PROGRAM FOR THE AGING INC: $43,738 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOS CENTER INC: $28,559 over 1y, 28% of budgetPROJECT KINDRED INC: $26,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE LUTHERAN HOME ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDATA YOU CAN USE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetNEAR WEST SIDE PARTNERS INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetZEIDLER GROUP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMR BOBS UNDER THE BRIDGE INC: $838 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIMPACT100 GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADULT LITERACY CENTER OF OZAUKEE COUNTY: $220 over 2y, 0.2% 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 CENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING INC ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds SERENITY INNS INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds VIBRANT FAITH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT RETURN INC ↗
  • Who funds Ebenezer Stone Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds PASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN INMATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUST ONE MORE MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds JOBSWORK MKE INC ↗
  • Who funds Grace in Action ↗
  • Who funds BREAD OF HEALING INC ↗
  • Who funds ELCA OUTREACH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Chaplains in Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN HOME FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…United Way of Greater…The Lynde and Harry B…Stimac Family Foundat…Green Bay Packers Fou…Antioch Foundation 10…Neumann Family Founda…Thrivent Charitable I…Thrivent Financial fo…Theodore W Batterman …Herbert H Kohl Charit…Evan & Marion Helfaer…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI61.4× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Stimac Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Antioch Foundation 1015002041 · Neumann Family Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Theodore W Batterman Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer 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 Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 196 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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