Delaware · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (Delaware) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $825,083 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($287,350). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $825k
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Lutheran Community Services Inc does
Mission
Mission: lutheran community services, inc. Helps individuals and families address food, housing, their health and other essential needs with dignity and respect. Vision: people moving from emergency to empowerment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency food distributions, medically tailored groceries and food is medicine programming, produce distributions and nutrition education.
$450,754 spent26% of program spendingHomeless prevention in the form of security deposits, rent, mortgage or utility payments along with financial literacy training
$357,158 spent20% of program spendingSmoking cessation assistance
$303,260 spent17% of program spendingProviding an innovative solution for reducing the health disparities experienced by vulnerable communities. The program combines mobile food with multidisciplinary care (primary care, behavioral health, and nutritional counseling)to provide food and support necessary for high risk community members to control their chronic condiitions.
$636,065 spent36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,747,237.
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.
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 $3.3M to $4.5M (+37%).
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: 2017 13% · 2018 14% · 2019 20% · 2020 31% · 2021 22% · 2022 31% · 2023 25% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $60k → $111k.
6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 funders by total. 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 COMMUNITY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 COMMUNITY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 28% · 2019 46% · 2020 41% · 2021 38% · 2022 67% · 2023 73% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
63% of LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 $308k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $517k 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.
Against its field
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Martin Luther Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (Delaware) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $825,083 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($287,350). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $825,083 in grants to LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $287,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 30 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