Nevada · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA (Nevada) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,445,475 to it, the largest being NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($490,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Lutheran Social Services of Nevada does
Mission
To express the love of christ by serving and caring for 8,000 - 10,000 families in need - food assistance, nutrition education, snap (formerly known as food stamps) assistance, congregate hot meal programs for seniors, health insurance for low income families, holiday gift programs, and temporary financial assistance with rent, utilities, birth certificate and nevada state identification programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Nutrition services is offered to homeless and low-income families and individuals and provides healthy food and personal hygiene items through the food pantry. It also provides cooking demonstrations. Periodically, open air markets are held at various locations in partnership with three square food bank in which food and bottles of water are distributed. Lssn launched their digimart in october 2016, which allows clients to log into the food database on desktop kiosks at lssn or from any computer with internet access. The monitor displays pictures of available food items, where clients can add items in their digital shopping cart. Then, the client simply goes to the pantry to pick up their order. Clients are allotted points every 30 days to "purchase" items from the pantry. Higher nutritional value items can be "purchased" for fewer points than their counterparts.
$2,059,568 spentof which $1,339,516 as grants53% of program spendingThe family empowerment services program provides people in need with the tools necessary for self-sufficiency with programs designed to give people the sense of dignity that comes from being able to obtain and keep employment, as well as how to make good, informed decisions to improve the quality of their lives. Under this program lssn offers assistance in applying for or renewing snap (formally known as food stamps) with the state of nevada division of welfare and supportive services; helps children get signed up for health insurance and assists people in obtaining their birth certificate and/or nevada identification. To help those in danger of becoming homeless, lssn can provide temporary rent and/or utility assistance.
$1,603,458 spentof which $889,064 as grants41% of program spendingThe senior services program provides assistance specifically to seniors (aged 60 or older). Seniors are offered two days per week of by- appointment shopping in the pantry, and fresh cooked meals are provided at two lutheran churches at no cost. Home-bound seniors receive case management services, food delivery, and assistance with nutritional supplements like ensure or boost, as well as personal hygiene products.
$227,111 spentof which $92,678 as grants6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,890,137.
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 2017 to 2018, from $634k to $3.6M (+467%).
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 27% · 2018 27% · 2019 28% · 2020 29% · 2021 44% · 2022 50% · 2023 61% · 2024 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA’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. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Tim Bedwell
Fy24 CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $31k → $109k.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 NEVADA’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 NEVADA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 NEVADA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 36% · 2019 45% · 2020 72% · 2021 39% · 2022 21% · 2023 74% — 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
57% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
75% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA'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 $366k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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 NEVADA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.5M
- Department of Agriculture$25k
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 NEVADA
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 NEVADA?
- LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA (Nevada) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,445,475 to it, the largest being NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($490,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% 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 NEVADA have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,445,475 in grants to LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA?
- NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $490,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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