Wisconsin · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US
LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US (Wisconsin) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $813,485 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($202,315). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $813k
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots US does
Mission
Lutheran indian ministries shares the gospel of jesus christ with native american people, encouraging them to proclaim christ's kingdom to their own and to others.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pastoral care: to achieve the mission and vision of lim, the gospel is shared in a manner that acknowledges local culture, customs, history, and social challenges that exist in native communities. To share the gospel while addressing the high rates of domestic violence, child abuse, substance use, historical trauma, incarceration, and suicide demonstrates how the gospel heals and restores individuals, families, and communities. Lim partners with churches that serve native people to equip them to meet community needs. Lim identifies, mentors and supports the development of american indian/native alaskan leaders within their community to address wellness while sharing the gospel.
$249,125 spentof which $16,900 as grants20% of program spendingHealing ministry: by providing safe places, where native people can tell their stories of harm, while building strong ties with community members. Our trained ministry staff can holistically guide them towards a path of healing. Lim equips, trains, and supports existing faith communities and individuals to better serve the local community. The local church and congregations must become a place where the gospel heals and instills hope to those in need.
$622,811 spentof which $42,250 as grants50% of program spendingCampus ministry: young people are the future in all cultures and that is true for native americans as well. Lim operates a campus ministry adjacent to haskell indian nations university. With a student base of around 900 native students each semester, lim has opportunity to daily counsel and mentor students while showing them the true love of jesus.
$311,406 spentof which $21,125 as grants25% of program spendingMission awareness: we believe that our ministry extends both to the native american people we serve and from them back to the wider church. Many are not aware of the challenges facing native americans. Without the knowledge of the history of native people - especially the history of artrocities inflicted directly by the church, it is not possible to understand why so few native americans know jesus as their lord and savior. It is also not possible to understand that the approach of proclaiming the gospel must be delivered differently than what has been tried and failed for over 500 years. Lim produces materials that it makes available to supporters. We also educate supporters and the wider public through our website and other means like social media.
$62,281 spentof which $4,225 as grants5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,245,623.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.1M to $5.5M (+76%).
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 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Robert Heffle
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $42k → $134k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US’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
LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
73% 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 LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 46% · 2019 43% · 2020 27% · 2021 35% · 2022 32% · 2023 38% — 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
50% of LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
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
LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $354k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 19 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US?
- LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US (Wisconsin) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $813,485 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($202,315). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $813,485 in grants to LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US?
- Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is the largest funder on record, with $202,315 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 27 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