South Dakota · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY
INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY (South Dakota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,276 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($55,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY's revenue grew 90% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,036 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Brookings Area United Waylocal
- Votum Foundation Incportfolio match
- Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Libertyportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $32k → $279.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY’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
INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 76% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 96% · 2022 39% · 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
70% of INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY'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 $51k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Dakota, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
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.
- Brookings Area United WaylocalSD · funds 28 organizations near you
- Votum Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Libertyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alice Aber Smith Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calvin Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fund for Theological Education Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lutheran Legacy Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Francis F Carnes Education Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wabash Collegeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lake Forest Knights of Columbus Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Earnest F & Edna P Aber Scholarship Fundportfolio 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 INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
42% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY: 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 INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY?
- INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY (South Dakota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,276 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($55,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $169,276 in grants to INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing