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LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF MARYLAND

LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF MARYLAND (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being LEADINGAGE INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.9M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$2.3M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Lutheran Social Ministries of Maryland does

Mission

Lutheran social ministries is organized to receive and administer funds for, to establish, maintain, supervise, coordinate, assist and perform planning and other functions for the benefit of, or to carry out the charitable, educational, and service purposes of the supported organizations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Lutheran Social Ministries of Maryland serves as the parent organization for it's subsidiaries offering overall management services, strategic planning, human resources management, treasury services, it support, risk management, philanthropy, development and marketing and sales overshight. It has initiated hiring fairs, staff appreciation events, placement of interns from colleges and post-graduate programs, philanthropy events, estate planning programs and multipile marketing programs. Further, lsmmd offers treasury management, billing, accounting services, risk management, information technology support, strategic planning and general management.in addition, lsmmd supports intergenerational partnerships between residents and students; boys & girls club, local public and private schools and clubs. Lsmmd supports intergenerational programs in our communities.

    $0 spent$6,922,178 earned by the program

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($175k)2020 Revenue 194 ($4.2M) Expenses 195 ($4.2M) Net assets 86 ($151k)2021 Revenue 241 ($5.2M) Expenses 205 ($4.4M) Net assets 543 ($950k)2022 Revenue 245 ($5.3M) Expenses 231 ($5.0M) Net assets 753 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 275 ($6.0M) Expenses 263 ($5.7M) Net assets 957 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 284 ($6.1M) Expenses 268 ($5.8M) Net assets 1152 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 320 ($6.9M) Expenses 305 ($6.6M) Net assets 1339 ($2.3M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (320)Expenses (305)Net assets (1339)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.8M to $2.6M (+41%).

$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.5M
$1.8M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$3.0M
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF MARYLAND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’19
−$24k
’20
$799k
’21
$287k
’22
$276k
’23
$342k
’24
$327k
’25
1.6
months of
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

Jeffrey W Branch

President/CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed18222020222223
Joined·+4+1+5+5+8+10
No longer listed·035389
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
Leadingage Incunclassified
$20k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF MARYLAND’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.

Where its funders are

LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF MARYLAND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.

DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF MARYLAND has grown faster than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF MARYLAND

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 84%Fundraising 16%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Carroll Lutheran Village Inc · exempt
  • Lutheran Village at Millers Grant · exempt
  • Clv Catering Inc · corp_trust
  • Lvmg Hospitality Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF MARYLAND?
LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF MARYLAND (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being LEADINGAGE INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF MARYLAND have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF MARYLAND.
Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF MARYLAND?
LEADINGAGE INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LUTHERAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES OF MARYLAND 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.

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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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