North Carolina · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN SERVICES FOR THE AGING INC
LUTHERAN SERVICES FOR THE AGING INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,312 to it, the largest being TR UA N B BLACKWELDER-LUTHERAN ($275,783). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $544k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $395k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Lutheran Services for the Aging Inc does
Mission
Empowered by christ, we walk together with all we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lutheran services for the aging, inc. (lsa) and its affiliated organizations are ministries of the north carolina synod of the evangelical lutheran church in america. The lsa mission statement is, "empowered by christ, we walk together with all we serve." lsa operates nursing homes, retirement communities, assisted living residences, and adult day services in addition to providing home care, and information and referral services in north carolina. Lsa provides a ministry of christian care to older adults and adults with disabilities regardless of faith, race, disability, or economic status. Lsa is made up of compassionate people with loving spirits and generous hearts. Residents, teammates, clients, participants, families, and volunteers all strive to be of service to god and the community. Many of the seniors served by lsa have been service oriented and philanthropically inclined throughout their lives and continue to seek opportunities for community service. For residents of the retirement communities those opportunities are abundant. Residents there log in hundreds of volunteer hours for local churches, habitat for humanity, the alzheimer's association, the state veterans…
$17,510 spent$-10,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,510.
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 $9.0M to $10M (+16%).
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.
11% of LUTHERAN SERVICES FOR THE AGING INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Doug Nelson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $78k.
1 of 6 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.
From the IRS filings of LUTHERAN SERVICES FOR THE AGING INC’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 SERVICES FOR THE AGING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 99% · 2021 79% · 2022 86% · 2023 62% — diversifying over time.
“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 SERVICES FOR THE AGING INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 SERVICES FOR THE AGING INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LUTHERAN SERVICES FOR THE AGING INC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
8% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 38 related entities
- Lutheran Retirement Center - Salisbury · exempt
- Lsa Pharmacy Inc · exempt
- Lsa Management Inc · exempt
- Lutheran Home - Forsyth County Inc · exempt
- Lutheran Home at Trinity Oaks Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUTHERAN SERVICES FOR THE AGING 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES FOR THE AGING INC?
- LUTHERAN SERVICES FOR THE AGING INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,312 to it, the largest being TR UA N B BLACKWELDER-LUTHERAN ($275,783). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN SERVICES FOR THE AGING INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $395,312 in grants to LUTHERAN SERVICES FOR THE AGING INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN SERVICES FOR THE AGING INC?
- TR UA N B BLACKWELDER-LUTHERAN is the largest funder on record, with $275,783 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN SERVICES FOR THE AGING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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