Minnesota · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND (Minnesota) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,505,317 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($2,725,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $15k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $297k
What Lutheran Social Services of Nd does
Mission
Guided by god's love and grace, Lutheran Social Services of Nd brought healing, help, and hope.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2020 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
On January 1, 2021 Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota ceased programing. All employees were terminated between January and April of 2021. On May 13, 2021 Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota filed for bankruptcy.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota was organized during Fiscal Year 2021 into four major divisions that provided services to approximately 24,000 clients across the state. Those service divisions are noted in subsequent sections with descriptions of some of the specific programs. Most of the programs listed below ceased operations as of 1/1/21. As of 5/13/21, any remaining programs were no longer in existence and LSS filed for bankruptcy.(See continuation on Schedule O)
$27,203,067 spentof which $1,131,041 as grants$23,351,119 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2020 Form 990. Program spending in total: $27,203,067.
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.
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 $2.1M to $303k (−85%).
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: 2017 56% · 2018 50% · 2019 49% · 2021 26%. 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 6 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 narrowed from 19 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $12k.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 ND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 ND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
73% 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 ND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 46% · 2019 41% · 2020 35% · 2021 49% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
28% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $838k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND?
- LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND (Minnesota) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,505,317 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($2,725,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $10,505,317 in grants to LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND?
- MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,725,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 34 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