Minnesota · Nonprofit
Lutheran Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society
Lutheran Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $859,424 to it, the largest being ROGER & VIOLET NOREEN CHAR TRUST ($835,850). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $318k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $859k
- Net assets
- $539k
What Lutheran Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society does
Mission
Working in partnership with the people most in need, we develop organic solutions to violence, poverty, inequality and natural disasters.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Direct to the People Program, Umbrella Name of individual programs supported in Turkey. Includes: Basak Kultur ve Sanat Vakit scholarships; Van Artistic Women's Association; Other Scholarship students located in Mersin, Van, Hakkari and Istanbul, Turkey; TEKSEV (Van Life Center); Life House in Urfa - refugee relief efforts, new Diyabakir Life Center.
$209,791 spentof which $150,293 as grants82% of program spendingThe Paul H. Scheffler Entrepreneurial Endeavors and Van Textile Project have enabled the girls of Bostanici, a Van Province in Turkey to create "Girls Believing in Themselves" GBiT. The girls make tote bags, kilim hand bags and other items to be sold via the internet and LMD events in the US marketed under GBiT.All proceeds are returned to the girls to support themselves and their families.
$35,410 spent$2,999 earned by the program14% of program spendingReconciliation Walk, Luton, UK. Service projects and training programs to help restore hope and peace to our neighbors.
$11,339 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $256,540.
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.
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 $487k to $379k (−22%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
John Snider
Executive Director
Board chair
Debra Ost
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $84k → $119k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society’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 Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Lutheran Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like Lutheran Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lutheran Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society: 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 Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society?
- Lutheran Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $859,424 to it, the largest being ROGER & VIOLET NOREEN CHAR TRUST ($835,850). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lutheran Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $859,424 in grants to Lutheran Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lutheran Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society?
- ROGER & VIOLET NOREEN CHAR TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $835,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lutheran Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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