Minnesota · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 233 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,480,604 to it, the largest being Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc ($18,307,938). 160 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $187M
- Funders on record
- 233
- Grants received
- $87M
- Net assets
- $53M
What Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota does
Mission
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota expresses the love of christ for all people through service that inspires hope, changes lives and builds community. Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota and affiliates is one of minnesota's largest and oldest non-profit social service organizations. Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota has 350 service units in over 300 locations across minnesota. We serve 1 in 63 minnesotans.Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota is a welcoming organization offering employment opportunities and support for all people. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Additional information about the organization and its services can be found at www.lssmn.org.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In residential and customized support services, we help people with identified needs live the lives they imagine for themselves through residential, in-home and employment services. In fy 25, we served 779 individuals through these programs. Our community based services support individuals with identified needs in community-based settings to live the lives they imagine for themselves, through life sharing, deaf and hard of hearing family services, care coordination services and a supportive, medically sound camp for individuals with medical conditions and other identified needs. In fy 25, we served 7,556 individuals and families through these programs.
$91,882,062 spentof which $9,183,247 as grants$106,490,764 earned by the program59% of program spendingOur children & family services provide services for children and families that strengthen their resiliency and connections in community through foster care and adoption, behavioral health, a camp focused on kids' resilience after living through disasters, and family services such as kinship support and early childhood education. In fy 25, 14,682 children and families received support from lss through these services. Lss' economic opportunity & youth support services strengthen individuals and families with resources that improve their economic, social, health, and housing stability through employment and housing services, financial counseling, refugee services and services for youth experiencing homelessness. In fy 25, we supported 30,624 individuals, youth and families through these programs.
$44,835,112 spentof which $7,729,970 as grants$517,655 earned by the program29% of program spendingLss' services for older adults help older adults and others maintain healthy, connected, and balanced lifestyles in their own homes and communities through access to nutritious meals, caregiver and companion services, trust services, supported decision-making and guardianship services. In fy 25, we supported 14,801 individuals through these services.
$19,093,065 spent$21,370,949 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $155,810,239.
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 2021 to 2022, from $100M to $87M (−14%).
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: 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Dr Rob Nesse
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 63 funders to 104 funders, grant income rose $6.8M → $14M.
45 of 233 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $1.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lutheran Social Service Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA raised.
From the IRS filings of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 233 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 SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
80% 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 SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 23% · 2019 18% · 2020 31% · 2021 27% · 2022 27% · 2023 28% — 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
55% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
67% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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 SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA's funding base is broadening — from 63 funders to 104 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55.5M on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$25.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$21.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$7.7M
- Department of Justice$473k
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 SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 16 related entities
- Lss Supportive Housing LLC · disregarded
- Cfcl LLC · disregarded
- Rezek House LLC · disregarded
- Lss Rolling Hills LLC · disregarded
- Cfcl Duluth · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA?
- LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 233 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,480,604 to it, the largest being Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc ($18,307,938). 160 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 233 organizations giving $87,480,604 in grants to LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA, 160 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA?
- Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc is the largest funder on record, with $18,307,938 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA 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 233 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing