South Dakota · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK
LUTHERAN CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK (South Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,000 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $104k
What Lutheran Congregational Support Network does
Mission
None.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lutheran Congregational Support Network advances its exempt religious purpose by providing free educational resources, analysis, and digital media to inform congregations about governance issues impacting autonomy within the elca. During the year, lcsn published a series of educational videos and resources on its website and social media, including in-depth analyses of changes in elca governing documents and their implications for local congregations. The organization's website received 25,300 pageviews and 8,300 unique users during the tax year. Video content on the lcsn youtube channel was viewed 34,390 times, and its facebook page had 25,700 visits with 4,000 content interactions. These digital outreach efforts made critical educational and support content widely available at no cost to congregations, pastors, and lay leaders.
$33,242 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $33,242.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $149k to $105k (−29%).
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.
96% of LUTHERAN CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK’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 CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK.
“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
100% of LUTHERAN CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK is better cushioned than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LUTHERAN CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUTHERAN CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK: 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 CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK?
- LUTHERAN CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK (South Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,000 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $70,000 in grants to LUTHERAN CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN CONGREGATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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