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GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC

GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $269,760 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($51,172). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$581k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$270k
Net assets
$492k
8/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Global Lutheran Outreach Inc does

Mission

To serve the worldwide lutheran community by sending lutherans as transnational missionaries to establish and strengthen congregations and ministries around the world.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Foreign and local missionary ministries outreach programs

    $175,691 spent$398,788 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $175,691.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($910k) Expenses 100 ($647k) Net assets 100 ($863k)2021 Revenue 98 ($889k) Expenses 105 ($681k) Net assets 123 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 79 ($720k) Expenses 100 ($646k) Net assets 124 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 93 ($846k) Expenses 105 ($679k) Net assets 132 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 64 ($581k) Expenses 103 ($668k) Net assets 57 ($492k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (64)Expenses (103)Net assets (57)Peer revenue range

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 $865k to $1.1M (+23%).

$865k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,947 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$263k
’20
$208k
’21
$74k
’22
$167k
’23
−$87k
’24
3.2
months of
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed1212101013
Joined·+0+2+0+5
No longer listed·0402
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $17k → $30k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC’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

GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

96% 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 GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC.

19%
largest funder
56%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 38% · 2019 47% · 2020 49% · 2021 94% · 2022 44% · 2023 47% — 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.

How long its funders stay

43% of GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

53% of GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC'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 $126k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 5 states.

MN
IL
MI
PA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC's revenue fell 36% between 2020 and 2024.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,527 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

47% of spending goes to programs.

Program 47%Management 53%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC?
GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $269,760 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($51,172). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $269,760 in grants to GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC?
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is the largest funder on record, with $51,172 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing