Washington · Nonprofit
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
Lutheran Community Services Northwest (Washington) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,007,038 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($25,941,465). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85M
- Funders on record
- 112
- Grants received
- $45M
- Net assets
- $57M
What Lutheran Community Services Northwest does
Mission
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
CHILD, FAMILY, AND SENIOR SUPPORT: LCSNW serves children, youth, families and seniors with stabilization and development services and prevention of outofhome placements and supporting seniors to stay at home as long as possible, including wraparound services, referral and respite, child abuse prevention and reunification services. LCSNW operates a refugee foster care program for unaccompanied minors.
$22,947,284 spentof which $2,327,154 as grants$17,140,121 earned by the program41% of program spendingBEHAVIORAL HEALTH: LCSNW offers outpatient mental health services for children, adults, and families. Specialties include working with immigrants and refugees, survivors of violence, and abused and neglected children. LCSNW also provides substance abuse treatment services and an array of supportive programs to help individuals and families regain control of their lives.
$17,248,309 spentof which $186,839 as grants$11,238,839 earned by the program31% of program spendingIMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICES: LCSNW provides both immigration and refugee resettlement services. Services are focused on helping immigrants and refugees' transition successfully into their new communities. Services are provided in multiple languages and include English as a second language, citizenship classes, health education, case management, and housing assistance.
$16,261,698 spentof which $4,794,009 as grants$915,261 earned by the program29% of program spendingHOUSING AND EMERGENCY SERVICE: LCSNW provides support services to support its affiliate, Compass Housing Alliance, to expand emergency and low income housing services.
$0 spent$1,240,440 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,457,291.
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 2021 to 2022, from $39M to $59M (+52%).
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 70% · 2018 63% · 2019 69% · 2020 75% · 2021 46% · 2022 44% · 2023 53% · 2024 50% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of Lutheran Community Services Northwest’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
David Duea
President & Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Greg Gilbert
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 56 funders, grant income fell $3.6M → $2.7M.
27 of 112 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Northwest’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 112 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 Northwest leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 Northwest.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 71% · 2019 66% · 2020 33% · 2021 48% · 2022 63% · 2023 17% — 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
51% of Lutheran Community Services Northwest's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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 Community Services Northwest draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 Northwest runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Lutheran Community Services Northwest receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $42.4M on record — $9.9M federal, $32.6M state.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$4.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.0M
- Department of Homeland Security$1.2M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$600k
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$10.3M
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$7.9M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$6.2M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$4.7M
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$1.9M
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$1.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Lutheran Community Services Northwest
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 12 related entities
- Compass Housing Alliance · exempt
- Compass Center Housing Development · exempt
- Latch-Roxbury LP · partnership
- Latch-Seatac LP · partnership
- 9th & Stewart LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Lutheran Community Services Northwest?
- Lutheran Community Services Northwest (Washington) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,007,038 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($25,941,465). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lutheran Community Services Northwest have?
- IRS filings report 112 organizations giving $45,007,038 in grants to Lutheran Community Services Northwest, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lutheran Community Services Northwest?
- LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE is the largest funder on record, with $25,941,465 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lutheran Community Services Northwest find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 112 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