Minnesota · Nonprofit
CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION
CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $33,458 to it, the largest being LEGACY GLOBAL FOUNDATION ($33,458). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Confessional Lutheran Education Foundation does
Mission
To provide school support to lutherans enrolled in academic program to international confessional lutheran pastoral education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Clef provides international confessional lutheran pastoral education in various countries. In addition, clef provides translation of various lutheran theological books and publications for use in these countries. Clef has also taken on a project to develop an international confessional lutheran hymnal. During the year, clef:- provided education courses for more than 1,000 catechism teachers- providing over 1,200 theological books to partner church seminaries, colleges, and high schools through the kindle.
$102,217 spentof which $65,000 as grants$9,800 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $102,217.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $801k to $898k (+12%).
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.
79% of CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Rev Paul Strawn
Chairman & president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $27k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $33,458 to it, the largest being LEGACY GLOBAL FOUNDATION ($33,458). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $33,458 in grants to CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- LEGACY GLOBAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $33,458 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders 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. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing