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LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD

LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD (Missouri) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,151,692 to it, the largest being THE MARVIN M SCHWAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($70,839,448). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
72
Funders on record
$23M
Grants received
Net assets
46/72 repeat funders

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.

See all 11 prospects and why each one surfaced →
02Who funds it

How concentrated its funding is

LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

42%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

How long its funders stay

57% of LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 26 states in all.

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
KS
SC
GA
TX
FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD

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 Missouri

Nationally

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD: 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 LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD?
LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD (Missouri) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,151,692 to it, the largest being THE MARVIN M SCHWAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($70,839,448). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD have?
IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $23,151,692 in grants to LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD?
THE MARVIN M SCHWAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,839,448 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2023, and the filings of 72funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing