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LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS

LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,614,846 to it, the largest being ELLIE'S FOUNDATION INC ($1,480,508). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$128M
Funders on record
85
Grants received
$8.6M
Net assets
$35M
63/85 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Lutheran Social Services of Illinois does

Mission

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois, through service and advocacy seeks to bring healing, justice and wholeness to persons and to enhance the quality of people's lives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community child care services

    $67,180,880 spentof which $1,860,125 as grants$1,209,490 earned by the program
    61% of program spending

  2. Behavioral health services

    $30,372,804 spentof which $502,097 as grants$18,838,655 earned by the program
    28% of program spending

  3. Developmental disabilities

    $9,171,331 spentof which $10,774 as grants$1,156,192 earned by the program
    8% of program spending

  4. Community serviceshousing

    $3,350,615 spentof which $1,060 as grants$4,824,446 earned by the program
    3% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $110,075,630.

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 ($66M) Expenses 100 ($64M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2018 Revenue 102 ($67M) Expenses 102 ($66M) Net assets 132 ($17M)2019 Revenue 105 ($69M) Expenses 108 ($69M) Net assets 128 ($16M)2020 Revenue 113 ($75M) Expenses 119 ($76M) Net assets 101 ($13M)2022 Revenue 148 ($98M) Expenses 155 ($99M) Net assets 173 ($22M)2023 Revenue 163 ($107M) Expenses 156 ($100M) Net assets 222 ($28M)2024 Revenue 177 ($117M) Expenses 174 ($112M) Net assets 255 ($32M)2025 Revenue 194 ($128M) Expenses 193 ($124M) Net assets 280 ($35M)
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Revenue (194)Expenses (193)Net assets (280)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $39M to $52M (+33%).

$39M
$52M
$54M
$63M
$60M
$72M
$80M
$82M
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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
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 67% · 2018 71% · 2019 72% · 2020 75% · 2022 66% · 2023 73% · 2024 74% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.9M
’17
$1.6M
’18
$243k
’19
−$1.8M
’20
−$1.8M
’22
$7.3M
’23
$5.3M
’24
$4.5M
’25

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

Esther M Macchione

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2626202018202124
Joined·+3+8+1·+6+2+8
No longer listed·3141·415
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $417k → $1.4M.

Funder
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total
funders
20
19
24
38
34
37
45
45
36
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19 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $6.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Cornerstone Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS raised.

From the IRS filings of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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 SERVICES OF ILLINOIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

31% 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 ILLINOIS.

17%
largest funder
32%
top three
~17
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 22% · 2019 22% · 2020 31% · 2021 22% · 2022 19% · 2023 16% — 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

57% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

70% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
OH
PA
CA
MO
AZ
TN
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.3M on record.

Federal$5.3M
grants $5.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$5.0M
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$321k

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 SERVICES OF ILLINOIS

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 Illinois

Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois88%Family Service & Mental Health Center of Cicero86%Lutheran Community Services for the Aged Inc86%The Cornerstone Foundation Inc85%Lutheran Home for the Aged Inc85%The Josselyn Center Nfp84%Turning Point Behavioral Health Care Center84%Children's Home Association of Illinois84%

Nationally

Lutheran Child and Family Services of In/Ky Inc90%Lutheran Social Services of the South Inc88%Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois88%Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan Inc87%Lutheran Homes of Michigan Inc87%Lutheran Social Services Foundation of Upstate New York Inc87%Lutheran Services in Iowa Charitable Foundation Inc86%Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas86%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 9%Fundraising 2%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 22 related entities

  • Assisi Homes - Downer Place Inc · exempt
  • Aurora Senior Housing Inc · exempt
  • Batavia Council on Aging Inc · exempt
  • Deer Creek Manor Inc (Nfp) · exempt
  • Dekalb Housing for the Handicapped Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS?
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,614,846 to it, the largest being ELLIE'S FOUNDATION INC ($1,480,508). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS have?
IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $8,614,846 in grants to LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS?
ELLIE'S FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,480,508 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 85 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