Alaska · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA (Alaska) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $739,345 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE ($167,804). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $739k
- Net assets
- $753k
What Lutheran Social Services of Alaska does
Mission
Providing hope by responding to human needs through services that sustain and transform lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food pantry in fy25 we distributed 514,727 pounds of food to 14,599 households or 31,969 individuals. These numbers are tracked through pantrysoft registration system. Each household has a record of the number of people living in the household by age. These numbers are down from fy24 as the covid supplemental federal food programs had ended. The lssa food pantry is open four days a week, tuesday-friday for 3 hours each day. Mobile food pantry in fy25 our mobile food pantry distributed 237,435 pounds of food to 9,136 households or 31,367 individuals from our distribution site in the parking lot of lutheran church of hope located at 1847 w. Northern lights blvd. We operate every tuesday from 3:30pm to 6:00pm unless it is a holiday or if we cancel due weather. We track the registration that we report to the food bank of alaska. The food bank weighs the food before they bring it to the site for distribution.
$999,828 spentof which $981,352 as grants72% of program spendingRoosevelt roosevelt house is a housing unit that have operated since 1994 for individuals with behavioral health issues located at 2300 roosevelt drive and consists of 5 one bedroom units and 1 two bedroom unit apartments. During fy25 we had 4 one bedroom units occupied close to 100% with one unit closed for renovation. The two bedroom unit was occupied 100% of the time. Transitional living program (tlp) tlp has been a program of lssa of lssa since 1994 also. This four apartment building located at 804 w. 16th avenue. It is a program for single homeless men. We have a resident manager who lives in one of the unit and the other 3 units house one individual. In june 2025 the board has decided to sell the building as we have numerous problems that are very costly to fix. We did some work on the building getting ready for sale and it went on the market december 2025 after the last tenant moved out.
$92,669 spentof which $91,374 as grants$20,833 earned by the program7% of program spendingDirect assistance we helped the following in our direct assistance programs. Birth certificate (alaskan born) 403 birth certificates (born out of state) 57 alaska state ids 837 alaka drivers license 13 restricted alaskan ids or driver license 18 new program for lssa this fy was real ids and driver license real ids 52 real driver license 55 bus passes 7 gas cards 55 carrs/safeway gift cards 35 prescription help 12 utiity assistance 8 rental assistance 8 stranded rural alaskans 6 we helped 1,464 individuals with vouchers for these programs in fy25. The reason for the increase has been those needing real ids that the federal government implemented on may 7, 2025. We track this information in formstack. Medical transportation anyone seeking transportation to and from doctors appointment or medical procedures can call us for a ride in our program with alaska yellow cab. We provided 349 clients with more than 650 rides. We track this information on an excel spreadsheet. Golden connections our newest program is golden connections which is a program that helps seniors fight isolation that we all experienced during covid 19. We host monthly if not twice programs with lunch; such as gci…
$305,373 spentof which $67,470 as grants22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,397,870.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $1.4M (−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.
99% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $90k → $52k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA’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 SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
87% 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 SERVICES OF ALASKA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 47% · 2019 63% · 2020 31% · 2021 55% · 2022 33% · 2023 38% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
58% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA'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 $309k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $430k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 SERVICES OF ALASKA's revenue fell 41% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA?
- LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA (Alaska) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $739,345 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE ($167,804). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $739,345 in grants to LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA?
- UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE is the largest funder on record, with $167,804 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 21 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