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LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE FOUNDATION

LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being GOOD360 ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$384k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$6.3M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Lutheran Social Service Foundation does

Mission

Lutheran Social Service Foundation is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of lutheran social service of minnesota.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Lutheran social service (lss) foundation provides financial support for the programs at lutheran social service of minnesota. The lss foundation is a supporting organization that allocates funds based on the restriction of the donor.

    $250,305 spentof which $250,305 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $250,305.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($275k) Expenses 100 ($120k) Net assets 100 ($3.5M)2018 Revenue 181 ($498k) Expenses 202 ($242k) Net assets 111 ($3.9M)2019 Revenue 85 ($234k) Expenses 138 ($165k) Net assets 113 ($4.0M)2020 Revenue 107 ($294k) Expenses 156 ($186k) Net assets 116 ($4.1M)2021 Revenue 398 ($1.1M) Expenses 173 ($207k) Net assets 154 ($5.4M)2022 Revenue 75 ($206k) Expenses 188 ($225k) Net assets 125 ($4.4M)2023 Revenue 53 ($147k) Expenses 230 ($275k) Net assets 134 ($4.7M)2024 Revenue 53 ($145k) Expenses 234 ($279k) Net assets 158 ($5.6M)2025 Revenue 140 ($384k) Expenses 230 ($275k) Net assets 177 ($6.3M)
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Revenue (140)Expenses (230)Net assets (177)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.1M to $5.4M (+32%).

$3.5M
$3.9M
$4.0M
$4.1M
$5.4M
$4.4M
$4.7M
$5.6M
$6.3M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$155k
’17
$256k
’18
$69k
’19
$108k
’20
$887k
’21
−$19k
’22
−$128k
’23
−$135k
’24
$110k
’25
0.4
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.

Board chair

Jann Eichlersmith

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed201720212023212223
Joined·+2+6+4+2+7+0+6+3
No longer listed·53334252
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

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In Minnesota

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
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

MN

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota · exempt
  • Partners in Community Supports Inc · exempt
  • Children's Home Society of Minnesota · exempt
  • Children's Home Society Foundation · exempt
  • Lss Development LLC · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE FOUNDATION?
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being GOOD360 ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE FOUNDATION?
GOOD360 is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE FOUNDATION 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.

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 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