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GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC

GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being GEORGE E SHORTLE AND CATHERINE H SHORTLE FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$172k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$908k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Grace Lutheran Church Foundation Inc does

Mission

Future growth and expansion of the mission and ministry of grace lutheran church

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Funds used for laymen religious studies

    $34,918 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $34,918.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($43k) Expenses 100 ($18k) Net assets 100 ($479k)2019 Revenue 143 ($61k) Expenses 153 ($27k) Net assets 114 ($546k)2020 Revenue 144 ($61k) Expenses 99 ($18k) Net assets 122 ($584k)2021 Revenue 223 ($95k) Expenses 75 ($13k) Net assets 137 ($658k)2022 Revenue 236 ($100k) Expenses 72 ($13k) Net assets 154 ($738k)2023 Revenue 173 ($73k) Expenses 138 ($25k) Net assets 162 ($777k)2024 Revenue 404 ($172k) Expenses 209 ($37k) Net assets 190 ($908k)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (404)Expenses (209)Net assets (190)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 2023 to 2024, from $780k to $908k (+16%).

$485k
$546k
$587k
$661k
$741k
$780k
$908k
2017201920202021202220232024
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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

40% of GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’17
$33k
’19
$44k
’20
$81k
’21
$88k
’22
$49k
’23
$135k
’24
24
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.

2017201920202021202220232024
Listed7777777
Joined··+0+0+1+0+1
No longer listed··00101
03Who funds it

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 GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION 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.

Where its funders are

100% of GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin78% · top quartile
Months of reserve24.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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In Indiana

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Grace Lutheran Church · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC: 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 GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC?
GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being GEORGE E SHORTLE AND CATHERINE H SHORTLE FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,000 in grants to GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC?
GEORGE E SHORTLE AND CATHERINE H SHORTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2017–2024), 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