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LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE

LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE (Maryland) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,734,306 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($27,419,985). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$304M
Revenue FY2024
149
Funders on record
$43M
Grants received
$67M
Net assets
63/149 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($52M) Expenses 100 ($50M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 97 ($51M) Expenses 96 ($48M) Net assets 125 ($14M)2019 Revenue 121 ($63M) Expenses 116 ($58M) Net assets 172 ($19M)2020 Revenue 121 ($63M) Expenses 122 ($61M) Net assets 187 ($21M)2021 Revenue 220 ($115M) Expenses 197 ($99M) Net assets 330 ($37M)2022 Revenue 397 ($207M) Expenses 372 ($186M) Net assets 497 ($56M)2023 Revenue 447 ($233M) Expenses 460 ($230M) Net assets 555 ($62M)2024 Revenue 584 ($304M) Expenses 604 ($302M) Net assets 597 ($67M)
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Revenue (584)Expenses (604)Net assets (597)

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
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 87% · 2018 82% · 2019 83% · 2020 92% · 2021 81% · 2022 87% · 2023 95% · 2024 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.1M
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$2.8M
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$5.3M
19
$1.7M
20
$16M
21
$21M
22
$2.6M
23
$2.1M
24
1.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $96k → $18M.

41 of 149 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)79% 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 IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 149 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 IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE.

64%
largest funder
73%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 92% · 2019 82% · 2020 86% · 2021 16% · 2022 30% · 2023 93%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

38% of LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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

79% of LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE'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 $9.0M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 29 states.

NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AR
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL

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

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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 149 funders put you under-funded 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.

Government funding LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6B on record.

Federal$1.6B
grants $1.6Bcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$1.2B
  • Department of State$322.9M

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 IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE

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 Maryland

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 6%Fundraising 1%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 50 states

AK
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VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
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CO
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MO
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VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Lutheran Center Corporation · exempt
  • New American Community Lending Corporation · exempt
  • New American Careers Inc · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: 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 IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE?
LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE (Maryland) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,734,306 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($27,419,985). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE have?
IRS filings report 149 organizations giving $42,734,306 in grants to LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $27,419,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 149funders 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