South Carolina · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN SERVANTS FOR CHRIST
LUTHERAN SERVANTS FOR CHRIST (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $421,030 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($400,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $421k
- Net assets
- $333k
What Lutheran Servants for Christ does
Mission
Lutheran Servants for Christ owns, maintains and insures equipment for use in disaster relief activities. The organization furthermore provides training to volunteers in several areas of disaster response, and helps coordinate and facilitate responses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization acquires, maintains, and insures specialized heavy equipment including trailers, tractors, and related machinery to support rapid deployment during disaster events. This equipment enables volunteers and partner agencies to mobilize quickly in response to floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters, providing critical relief to affected communities. By keeping an insured and field-ready inventory, the organization fulfills its mission to serve neighbors in their most vulnerable moments.
$84,835 spent18% of program spendingThe organization recruits, trains, and equips volunteers to respond effectively and safely in the aftermath of natural disasters. Training activities include hands-on instruction in equipment operation, safety protocols, and field coordination, ensuring volunteers are prepared to serve alongside partner agencies when disaster strikes. By investing in its volunteer workforce, the organization builds sustained community capacity to deliver relief to those in need.
$17,524 spent4% of program spendingThe organization assesses needs and coordinates targeted relief efforts in communities impacted by natural disasters, deploying volunteers and equipment to areas where assistance is most critical. Working alongside local emergency management agencies, partners, and community organizations, the organization directs resources efficiently to ensure timely and effective disaster response. This coordination reflects the organization's commitment to serving those in greatest need with compassion and purpose.
$379,934 spentof which $363,250 as grants79% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $482,293.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $34k to $736k (+2051%).
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.
100% of LUTHERAN SERVANTS FOR CHRIST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
David Panning
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 SERVANTS FOR CHRIST’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 SERVANTS FOR CHRIST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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 SERVANTS FOR CHRIST.
“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
99% of LUTHERAN SERVANTS FOR CHRIST'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $415k 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 SERVANTS FOR CHRIST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LUTHERAN SERVANTS FOR CHRIST
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 Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% 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 SERVANTS FOR CHRIST: 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 SERVANTS FOR CHRIST?
- LUTHERAN SERVANTS FOR CHRIST (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $421,030 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($400,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN SERVANTS FOR CHRIST have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $421,030 in grants to LUTHERAN SERVANTS FOR CHRIST.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN SERVANTS FOR CHRIST?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN SERVANTS FOR CHRIST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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