Iowa · Nonprofit
BETHANY LUTHERAN FOUNDATION
BETHANY LUTHERAN FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,904,005 to it, the largest being Bethany Luthern Foundation ($3,904,005). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BETHANY LUTHERAN FOUNDATION's revenue fell 79% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,170 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Community Foundation for Western Iowalocalportfolio match
- St Luke's Methodist Hospitalportfolio match
- Leadingage Minnesota Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
29% of BETHANY LUTHERAN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BETHANY LUTHERAN FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of BETHANY LUTHERAN FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Community Foundation for Western Iowalocalportfolio matchIA · funds 38 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- St Luke's Methodist Hospitalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leadingage Minnesota Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Story Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Health Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rehabvisions & Cariant Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rpc Inc Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vetter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lavern T Busse & Audrey Busse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Health Care Association Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Becker Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mark & Kathy Larson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BETHANY LUTHERAN FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bethany Lutheran Home · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETHANY LUTHERAN FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BETHANY LUTHERAN FOUNDATION?
- BETHANY LUTHERAN FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,904,005 to it, the largest being Bethany Luthern Foundation ($3,904,005). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETHANY LUTHERAN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,904,005 in grants to BETHANY LUTHERAN FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of BETHANY LUTHERAN FOUNDATION?
- Bethany Luthern Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,904,005 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETHANY LUTHERAN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. What this page cannot tell you · view filing