California · Nonprofit
EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES
EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $398,318 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($167,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $94k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $398k
- Net assets
- $107k
What Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries does
Mission
Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries organizes queer seminarians and rostered ministers, confronts barriers and systemic oppression, and activates queer ideas and movements in the lutheran church.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Proclaim - proclaim is a professional community for publicly identified lgbtqia+ rostered leaders, candidates, and seminarians. Elm supports a professional network for publicly identified lgbtqia+ rostered leaders, candidates, and seminarians from multiple lutheran rosters committed to raising the visibility of extraordinary leaders and ending discrimination towards people for reasons of sexual orientation and gender identity. The proclaim community gathers annually for learning and renewal and connects throughout the year for networking and mutual support. Proclaim is uniquely positioned to help the lutheran church and society become more welcoming and inclusive of church leaders of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. Proclaim is open to rostered leaders or those preparing for rostered ministry from multiple lutheran rosters (for example, elca, elcic, lcms, elm).
$1,400 spent5% of program spendingCandidacy accompaniment - elm staff and volunteers work directly with candidates for rostered ministry in the elca and elcic. Elm also develops relationships with church-wide staff, synods, and seminaries and to make resources available to candidates, candidacy committees, and synod staff to ensure respectful, effective, and meaningful engagement throughout the candidacy process. As queer seminarians graduate, they are paired with a firstcall coach which draws from wisdom and counsel of proclaim members in settled calls who have regional connections and coaching skills.
Ministry engagement - elm works to encourage a diversity of calls for gifted lgbtqia+ leaders, while celebrating and highlighting extraordinary congregations and ministries impacted by the ministry of lgbtqia+ leaders.
Other - the total amount includes various "shared" expenses which support the organization's program, management, and fundraising efforts including staffing and office expenses.
$25,597 spent95% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,997.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $234k to $154k (−34%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 12% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Mycah Mcnett
Co-chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $18k → $60k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES’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.
How concentrated its funding is
EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 57% · 2019 47% · 2020 56% · 2021 44% · 2022 56% · 2023 68% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
63% of EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES'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. Of the $147k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $251k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES is better cushioned than half of the 10,142 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
29% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES: 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 EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES?
- EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $398,318 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($167,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $398,318 in grants to EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $167,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 6 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