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LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC

LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,055,272 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($11,289,464). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$36M
Revenue FY2024
93
Funders on record
$37M
Grants received
$21M
Net assets
52/93 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

Against its field

LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC has grown faster than half of the 3,286 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,286 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

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 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($23M) Expenses 100 ($23M) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2018 Revenue 91 ($21M) Expenses 91 ($21M) Net assets 135 ($4.2M)2019 Revenue 99 ($23M) Expenses 96 ($22M) Net assets 162 ($5.0M)2020 Revenue 115 ($26M) Expenses 104 ($24M) Net assets 236 ($7.4M)2021 Revenue 141 ($32M) Expenses 105 ($24M) Net assets 439 ($14M)2022 Revenue 150 ($34M) Expenses 143 ($33M) Net assets 490 ($15M)2023 Revenue 163 ($37M) Expenses 139 ($32M) Net assets 666 ($21M)2024 Revenue 155 ($36M) Expenses 153 ($35M) Net assets 678 ($21M)
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Revenue (155)Expenses (153)Net assets (678)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2018 16% · 2019 16% · 2020 26% · 2021 29% · 2022 38% · 2023 43% · 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,397 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$129k
17
$73k
18
$770k
19
$2.3M
20
$8.1M
21
$1.5M
22
$5.3M
23
$300k
24
0.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $2.8M → $5.2M.

16 of 93 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $6.1M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lutheran Family Services Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC raised.

From the IRS filings of LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 93 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 FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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

81% 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 FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC.

30%
largest funder
56%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 24% · 2019 27% · 2020 22% · 2021 21% · 2022 40% · 2023 57%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

54% of LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, across 18 states in all.

MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
IA
IN
OH
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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18
19
20
21
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23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis 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.

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. Your 93 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC

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 Nebraska

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 19%Fundraising 4%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 9 related entities

  • Lfs Blair LLC · disregarded
  • Lfs Blair II LLC · disregarded
  • Lfs Blair Suites LLC · disregarded
  • Lfs 25th Avenue Apartments LLC · disregarded
  • Lfs Hho LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC?
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,055,272 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($11,289,464). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC have?
IRS filings report 93 organizations giving $37,055,272 in grants to LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC?
LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE is the largest funder on record, with $11,289,464 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 93funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing