Missouri · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST
LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST (Missouri) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,862,304 to it, the largest being GIBBS VAR CHAR ($2,060,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $117M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $265M
What Lutheran Senior Services East does
Mission
To help older adults live purposefully and joyfully.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Senior living servicesmost of dlsm's senior living communities offer a continuum of services for older adults including residential accommodations, personal care services, and skilled nursing and rehabilitative care.
$82,910,159 spent$88,038,642 earned by the program51% of program spendingHud housingdlsm offers affordable, equal opportunity senior housing accommodations. In 2023 dlsm provided 86,010 days of accommodation, for an occupancy rate of 97.66%.
$2,475,927 spent$1,111,667 earned by the program2% of program spendingStatewide adoption networkpennsylvania's statewide adoption and permanency network (swan) is both a broad-based cooperative effort and a centralized information and facilitation service funded and overseen by the pennsylvania department of human services and managed under contract by diakon lutheran social ministries.the swan program serves children and youths in the custody of county children and youth agencies. Swan manages referrals from county children and youth agencies, contracts with private agencies that work with counties to provide direct services to children and families, provides consultation and training for county agencies and private providers, develops conferences and regional meetings, and manages support services to enhance the effectiveness of the child-placement network.
$74,898,114 spent$74,898,114 earned by the program46% of program spendingOther programs
$1,122,357 spentof which $421,198 as grants$2,187,198 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $161,406,557.
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 2023 to 2024, from $392M to $500M (+27%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 3% · 2022 6% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (15% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $294k → $1.1M.
4 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Diakon Lutheran Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST raised.
From the IRS filings of LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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 SENIOR SERVICES EAST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 19% · 2019 37% · 2020 27% · 2021 30% · 2022 29% · 2023 32% — 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
78% of LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
53% of LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 SENIOR SERVICES EAST runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 35 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 35 housing & shelter nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.3M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$7.3M
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 SENIOR SERVICES EAST
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 18 related entities
- Diakon Lutherwood Senior Housing LLC · disregarded
- Diakon-Swan LLC · disregarded
- Diakon Frostburg Senior Housing LLC · disregarded
- Diakon · exempt
- Diakon Lutheran Fund · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST: 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 SENIOR SERVICES EAST?
- LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST (Missouri) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,862,304 to it, the largest being GIBBS VAR CHAR ($2,060,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $7,862,304 in grants to LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST?
- GIBBS VAR CHAR is the largest funder on record, with $2,060,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 70 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