North Dakota · Nonprofit
FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION
FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,884 to it, the largest being FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ($98,790). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $907k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $153k
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What First Lutheran Church Foundation does
Mission
To expand the witness and mission of the first lutheran church in the community, region and world.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Foundation funds totaling $157,802 were disbursed in support of first lutheran church programs including bible camp costs, missions, curriculum, and furnishings/remodeling/expansion.
$157,802 spentof which $157,802 as grants43% of program spendingAs part of the community outreach, education and mission of the foundation, it also distributed $13,682 to ywca cass clay for new bunk beds, $8,500 to feed my starving children for meal costs, $10,000 to new life center for a security enhancements, $10,000 to united way of cass clay for backpacks and school supplies, $7,000 to jeremiah program for family engagement activities, $5,000 to lake agassiz habitat for humanity for building supplies, $12,000 to emergency food pantry for baskets, $10,000 to sanford health foundation for b uilding supplies, $10,000 to furniture mission for expansion, $10,000 to heart of clay for new family home, $10,000 to farm in the dell for tree rows and garden supplies, $10,000 to legacy childrens foundation for food pantry and care packages for homeless youth, $5,000 to matthews voice project to support local homeless students, $5,000 to fm regional chaplaincy to support chaplaincy for first responders, $10,000 to heart-n-soul community cafe for lunch serving lunch bunch program, $8,000 to soul solutions recovery for family programming for substance abuse, $5,000 to fargo moorhead rotary for recital with a cause, $10,000 to hero for freedom to rise…
$207,496 spentof which $207,496 as grants57% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $365,298.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.9M to $6.3M (+60%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $4k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH 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.
How concentrated its funding is
FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 100% · 2019 72% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
74% of FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH 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. Of the $39k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Dakota, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k 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.
Organizations like FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH 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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- First Lutheran Church · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH 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 FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION?
- FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,884 to it, the largest being FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ($98,790). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $152,884 in grants to FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION?
- FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $98,790 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 3 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