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EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA (Illinois) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,165,177 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($24,383,172). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Indianapolis Center for Congregations Incportfolio match
- Lutheran Legacy Foundation Incportfolio match
- Igivecatholicportfolio match
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 EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 funders by total. Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
How long its funders stay
50% of EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 31 states in all.
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.
- Indianapolis Center for Congregations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lutheran Legacy Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Igivecatholicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sure Foundation Ministriesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stauffer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Branches Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Steer Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Von Tobel Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Catholic Foundation of North Georgiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Smeenk Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clayton Brown Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Compassion Servicesportfolio 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 EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA
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 Illinois
Nationally
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA: 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 EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA?
- EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA (Illinois) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,165,177 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($24,383,172). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $21,165,177 in grants to EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA, 84 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA?
- THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING is the largest funder on record, with $24,383,172 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2023, and the filings of 124funders 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