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Thrivent Financial for Lutherans

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is a not-for-profit membership organization of christians.

$111M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,460
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$4.0M
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.

Community Improvement$367MReligion$59MEducation$50MHousing & Shelter$41MHealth$22MPhilanthropy$21MHuman Services$16MInternational$13MOther$0
02FY2024 · 1460 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1,460 grants below total $74,742,311, the rows itemized in this filing. The $110,618,538 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,876,227 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k844 grants · $5.7M
  • $10k–50k528 grants · $9.2M
  • $50k–250k55 grants · $4.6M
  • $250k+33 grants · $55M
$8,373
Median grant
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States reached
$118B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Thrivent Member Network - Greater Iowa (365)$3,970,349
Thrivent Member Network - Northland (435)$3,684,118
Thrivent Member Network - South Wisconsin (523)$3,648,266
Thrivent Member Network - East WI & Upper MI (3$3,454,289
Thrivent Member Network - Southeast (190)$3,306,473
Thrivent Member Network - Heartland (528)$2,797,162
Thrivent Member Network - Twin Cities (283)$2,615,671
Thrivent Member Network - Great Lakes (240)$2,473,809
Thrivent Member Network - Kansas & Missouri (410$2,404,345
Thrivent Member Network - Mid-America (270)$2,235,052
Thrivent Member Network - Mid-Atlanic (165)$2,193,328
Thrivent Member Network - Nebraska (378)$2,046,349
Thrivent Member Network - Southwest (529)$1,994,263
Thrivent Member Network - Texas (475)$1,875,902
Thrivent Member Network - Northeast (115)$1,870,407
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THRIVENT FINANCIAL FOR LUTHERANS FOUNDATION: $5.0M → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$567M · 1683 repeat orgs$35M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

1683 repeat relationships: 933 still active in FY2024, 750 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1683
258

Total granted

$567M
$33M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+13%

Still filing today

41%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionHealthInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO
    5× · 2017–2022 · $18M · revenue +93% · 64% of their budget
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +145%
  • OG
    ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $14M · revenue +28% · 84% of their budget
  • TF
    Thrivent Financial for Lutheransgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5.3M · revenue +25%
  • FH
    FOOTHILL HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY DBA HOSPITALITY HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +190% · 40% of their budget
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
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

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3
Good Shepherd Lutheran Home of Sauk Rapids Minnesota

Good shepherd lutheran home and its affliliates provide personalized housing & health care services for the young & older adults in central minnesota through a continuum of care.

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4
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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5
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
6
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
7
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
8
National Church Residences At Home Hospice

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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9
National Church Residences At Home Health and Wellness Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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10
National Church Residences At Home Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

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11
National Church Residences At Home Hospice Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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12
St Lukes Lutheran Care Center

St. luke's lutheran care center provides elderly and handicapped people with housing facilities and services and is specially designed to meet the physical, social, and psychological needs of the residents and to contribute to their…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Mercer Island Launch Educational Advocacy Project. 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

891 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 891 of the 2,000 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.

54
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
202
Early backer (in before they grew)
856/891
Grantees still filing
648/891
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Thrivent Member Network - Northland: $22,597,366 · OtherTHRIVENT MEMBER NETWORK: $21,368,678 · OtherTHRIVENT MEMBER NETWORK: $20,663,368 · OtherTHRIVENT MEMBER NETWORK: $20,582,349 · OtherThrivent Member Network - Northland (435): $18,848,434 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO: $18,463,003 · OtherThrivent Member Network - Two Rivers (375): $18,255,366 · OtherThrivent Member Network - Southeast: $17,615,845 · OtherThrivent Member Network - Great Lakes (240): $17,031,641 · OtherThrivent Member Network - Heartland (528): $16,916,335 · OtherTHRIVENT MEMBER NETWORK: $16,595,006 · OtherTHRIVENT MEMBER NETWORK: $16,389,696 · OtherTHRIVENT MEMBER NETWORK: $15,426,516 · OtherTHRIVENT MEMBER NETWORK: $15,249,419 · OtherThrivent Member Network - South Wisconsin (523): $15,105,995 · Other+118 more: $176,811,463 · Other+118 moreGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $18,386,548 · EducationINDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $1,089,398 · Education+17 more: $4,533,399 · EducationHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC: $13,847,388 · Housing & ShelterFOOTHILL HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY DBA HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $1,001,081 · Housing & ShelterORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC: $1,850,266 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,550,793 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $1,034,302 · InternationalLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $991,114 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $691,799 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $474,991 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $430,402 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $403,622 · InternationalTRINITY HOPE INC: $370,662 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $302,313 · International+3 more: $687,675 · InternationalST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,222,728 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $896,752 · HealthSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER INC: $813,302 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $757,752 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $316,989 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $310,478 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $302,009 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $299,596 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $941,548 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $385,446 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $383,190 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $382,494 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $341,379 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $339,601 · Human ServicesUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $307,810 · Human ServicesPrepare and Prosper: $274,291 · Human ServicesINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $272,704 · Human ServicesLutheran Social Services Inc: $260,972 · Human ServicesUJAMAA PLACE: $255,984 · Human ServicesOAKS INDIAN MISSION INC: $252,826 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $250,720 · Human ServicesSTAIRSTEP FOUNDATION: $230,307 · Human ServicesAVIVO: $227,000 · Human ServicesSERVE 6 8: $207,905 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE FOX CITIES: $200,799 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $198,142 · Human ServicesCHURCHES UNITED: $1,457,167 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,135,180 · ReligionLAND OF THE LIVING: $504,361 · ReligionLUTHERAN OUTDOORS MINISTRY OF TEXAS INC: $223,024 · ReligionTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY: $216,905 · ReligionYOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJA: $210,000 · ReligionLMBM INC: $201,836 · Religion
Other$447,920,480Education$24,009,345Housing & Shelter$14,848,469International$8,787,939Health$5,919,606Human Services$5,713,118Religion$3,948,473

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO: $18,463,003 over 5y, 64% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $18,386,548 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC: $13,847,388 over 1y, 84% of budgetThrivent Financial for Lutherans: $5,309,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN DIACONAL ASSOCIATION INC: $3,061,880 over 8y, 51% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,222,728 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $2,192,569 over 8y, 60% of budgetORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC: $1,850,266 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,550,793 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED: $1,457,167 over 8y, 14% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,135,180 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $1,089,398 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $1,034,302 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetFOOTHILL HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY DBA HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $1,001,081 over 1y, 40% of budgetMinnesota Black Collective Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $991,114 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $941,548 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $896,752 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $757,752 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $752,191 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $691,799 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEVE TWIN CITIES: $654,130 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $578,869 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $525,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $474,991 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT GEN MINISTRIES: $456,710 over 5y, 47% of budgetINDIGENOUS PEOPLES TASK FORCE: $445,288 over 1y, 35% of budgetNEW NORTH INC: $443,494 over 7y, 15% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE: $438,790 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYouthprise: $432,386 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $430,402 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $418,031 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $403,622 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING: $402,762 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $390,035 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $385,446 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $383,190 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $382,494 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC: $378,242 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $377,738 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTRINITY HOPE INC: $370,662 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $341,379 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $339,601 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $335,060 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC: $328,414 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $326,342 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION INC: $319,247 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $316,989 over 7y, 0.0% 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO ↗
  • Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN DIACONAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN 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.

Thrivent Financial fo…Lutheran Legacy Found…Thrivent Charitable I…J J Keller Foundation…Target FoundationSiebert Lutheran Foun…The Boldt Family Fund…Mielke Family Foundat…US Ventureschmidt Fam…Community Foundation …Concordia Lutheran Mi…The Clarence Wallace …
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans-GroupMN97.7× affinity270 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans-Group · Lutheran Legacy Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Target Foundation · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · The Boldt Family Fund Inc · Mielke Family Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Concordia Lutheran Ministriesfoundation · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family 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 Thrivent Financial for Lutherans funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 2000 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home