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Thrivent Financial for Lutherans-Group

Thrivent financial for lutherans ("thrivent") is a not-for-profit membership organization of christians.

$45M
Granted FY2024still arriving
284
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$412k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$14MReligion$8.2MInternational$3.3MEducation$653kFood & Nutrition$250kHuman Services$215kHealth$193kRecreation & Sports$141kOther$0
02FY2024 · 284 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 284 grants below total $3,353,093 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $44,591,279 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,238,186 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 $10k213 grants · $1.6M
  • $10k–50k68 grants · $949k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
  • $250k+2 grants · $763k
$7,660
Median grant
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States reached
$745k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lutheran World Relief$412,435
Samaritans Purse$350,916
Orphan Grain Train Inc$82,104
Love Never Fails$33,751
Grace Lutheran Church$25,852
St Paul Lutheran High School$25,613
St John Lutheran Church$23,458
St Mark Lutheran Church$23,219
American Cancer Society$21,304
Holy Cross Lutheran Church$20,586
Immanuel Lutheran Church$20,346
St Pauls Lutheran Church$18,431
Salem Lutheran Church$18,192
St Michael Lutheran Church$17,474
Pinnacle Village$16,995
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%Lutheran World Relief: $343k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 344 repeat orgs$5.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

344 repeat relationships — 214 still active in FY2024, 130 since wound down; 56 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

344
214

Total granted

$22M
$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+41%

Still filing today

27%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $429k 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
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesReligionInternationalHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • LW
    LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +39%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $905k · revenue +106%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES
    2× · 2020–2021 · $456k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • LS
    LIVING SPRINGS LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $450k
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $322k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NEW YORK CITY AND WESTCHERSTER COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $225k · revenue +102%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Habitat for Humanity International Inc

Seeking to put gods love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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2
Habitat for Humanity of the San Juans

Provide affordable housing to the disadvantaged

Housing & Shelter
3
Habitat for Humanity International Wabash County Hfh

Wabash county habitat for humanity, inc. is a non-profit organization working in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to build decent, affordable housing.

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4
Habitat for Humanity of Effingham County Inc

Habitat is a christian housing ministry that works with people in need to improve the conditions in which they live by providing affordable housing.

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5
Habitat for Humanity Greater Wenatchee Area

Our mission is to provide decent and affordable housing to eligible families in partnership with god, the families and our community.

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6
Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland Inc

Habitat for humanity of cleveland is a non-profit christian housing ministry. habitat works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities for people in need by building and selling houses…

Housing & Shelter
7
Habitat for Humanity of St Francois County Inc

To provide affordable housing for the needy.

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8
Habitat for Humanity of West Central Mn

Helping families thrive through affordable homeownership.

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9
Habitat for Humanity of Worcester County Inc

To build and rehabilitate houses which are sold to low-income families through no-interest loans

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10
Habitat for Humanity International Scotts Bluff County

Most construction work is performed by volunteers

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11
Habitat for Humanity- Northeast Michigan Inc

To provide adequate affordable housing for those in need. two built homes were sold in the fiscal year.

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12
Habitat for Humanity Hiawathaland

To provide low cost housing to people who could not otherwise afford home ownership.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loveland Habitat for Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp Okoboji Lcms Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr15%3%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr11%32%35–55yr25%58%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr15%2%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr11%50%35–55yr25%42%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.2%1/589
the rest of the field
15%
732/4,947

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.

04the grantee network

178 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. 178 of the 614 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
67
Early backer (in before they grew)
177/178
Grantees still filing
148/178
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH — $606,583 · OtherLIVING SPRINGS LUTHERAN CHURCH — $450,000 · OtherTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $445,000 · Other+142 more — $11,777,379 · Other+142 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $456,018 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF G…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NEW YORK CITY AND WESTCHERSTER COUNTY INC — $225,000 · Housing & ShelterHabitat for Humanity of Boulder Valley — $222,809 · Housing & ShelterGREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $222,173 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY — $215,603 · Housing & ShelterFLOWER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $215,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY — $209,100 · Housing & ShelterGREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $198,925 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC — $172,470 · Housing & Shelter+33 more — $2,771,494 · Housing & Shelter+33 moreLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC — $1,633,253 · InternationalLUTHERAN WO…ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC — $371,527 · InternationalORPHAN GRAI…Days For Girls International — $94,282 · International+2 more — $112,926 · InternationalSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $905,271 · ReligionHEITS POINT LUTHERAN MINISTRIES INC — $74,602 · ReligionMESSIAH LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INC — $54,020 · ReligionOPEN HANDS MIDWAY — $206,428 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $109,546 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $43,771 · HealthLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC — $117,899 · Youth DevelopmentWine to Water — $41,559 · Environment
Other$13,278,962Housing & Shelter$4,908,592International$2,211,988Religion$1,033,893Human Services$206,428Health$153,317Youth Development$117,899Environment$41,559

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC — $1,633,253 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $905,271 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $456,018 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $445,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC — $371,527 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDUPAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $260,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC — $229,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NEW YORK CITY AND WESTCHERSTER COUNTY INC — $225,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Boulder Valley — $222,809 over 2y, 13% of budgetGREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $222,173 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBrookings Area Habitat for Humanity Inc — $217,145 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY — $215,603 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetFLOWER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $215,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Monroe Inc — $213,983 over 2y, 13% of budgetHFH OF DOUGLAS COUNTY MINNESOTA INC — $212,500 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetDallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc — $210,518 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY — $209,100 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetOPEN HANDS MIDWAY — $206,428 over 5y, 61% of budgetGREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $198,925 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetGREATER FREDERICKSBURG HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $182,500 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE GREATER LACROSSE REGION INC — $177,500 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC — $172,470 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO — $171,286 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $165,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc — $162,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $154,255 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PENINSULA AND GREATER WILLIAMSBURG — $153,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton Inc — $144,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBLACK HILLS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $141,813 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DEKALB COUNTY — $140,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetCHICAGO SOUTH SUBURBS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $135,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $135,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LARAMIE COUNTY INC — $134,950 over 2y, 13% of budgetFORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $130,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetRIVER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $130,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetLEXINGTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $129,188 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC — $117,899 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetFOX VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $111,205 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetDOOR COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LTD — $110,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $109,546 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE SPRUCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $105,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetLake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity — $105,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY WILLIAMSON -MAURY — $103,523 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWILL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $99,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMidland County Habitat for Humanity — $96,286 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetLANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $95,796 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE EASTERN BIGHORNS INC — $95,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPIKES PEAK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $95,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

Habitat for Humanity …Thrivent Financial fo…Thrivent Charitable I…Habitat for Humanity …Lutheran Legacy Found…Nebraska Community Fo…Habitat for Humanity …Habitat for Humanity …Spartannash FoundationAntioch Foundation 10…Chicagoland Habitat f…Siebert Lutheran Foun…
Habitat for Humanity International IncGA106.4× affinity115 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Habitat for Humanity International Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Inc · Lutheran Legacy Foundation Inc · Nebraska Community Foundation · Habitat for Humanity of Colorado Inc · Habitat for Humanity of Indiana Inc · Spartannash Foundation · Antioch Foundation 1015002041 · Chicagoland Habitat for Humanity James Harris Treasurer · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc

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 Thrivent Financial for Lutherans-Group 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
52report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Thrivent Financial for Lutherans-Group?

Find your warmest path to Thrivent Financial for Lutherans-Group 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 614 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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