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LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,504,464 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($9,020,946). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.8M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida Inc does
Mission
Lutheran social services of northeast florida, inc. (lss) was formed in 1979 by lutheran congregations located in northeast florida as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit social ministry organization. The agency is led by a board of directors consisting of a maximum of 21 members, 51 percent of whom must be lutheran, according to bylaws, and 49 percent of whom are local business leaders. In 1999, lss formed an affiliate, lss property management, inc. (lpm) to own property as a taxexempt entity. Lpm's board of directors is made up of select members of the lss board of directors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nourishment network - a hunger relief program that provides food and nutritional services to low income individuals living in the jacksonville area. These programs address hunger through providing direct food assistance to at risk populations such as: seniors, pregnant mothers, low income children and any duval county resident in need of food.
$1,490,798 spent19% of program spendingAids care & education - provides hiv coordination of care through direct linkage, service and support to those living with hiv and aids in a five county area. The ace program is one of the only initiatives in northease florida that provides comprehensive wrap around services to individuals living with hiv. In fiscal year 2018, the ace program, in partnership with community aids network (can), opened a full service medical clinic with dental services and a community pharmacy on site.
$1,606,675 spent21% of program spendingRefugee services - resetiles refugees sent to lss from the u.s. State department, because their lives were at risk in their homeland due to religious or political persecution, by finding them places to live, helping them adapt to their new culture, enrolling their children in school and helping them train for and find jobs.
$4,462,706 spent57% of program spendingRepresentative payee services program - manages the finances of about 500 people in a five-county area who are eligible to receive social security or pension benefits but have been determined to be incapable of sound financial decision-making. These are people who suffer from mental illness and/or chronic substance abuse or who are too young or too old to make sound decisions that will ensure that their basic living needs are met. Steps 2 success - financial opportunity center (foc) is a career and financial coaching service center that helps low - to moderate income people build smart money habits and focus on the financial botiom line. Steps 2 success provides employment and career counseling, one-on-one financial coaching and education and low-cost financial products that help build credit, savings, and assets. Steps 2 success also connects clients with income support such as food stamps, utilities assistance, and affordable health insurance. The cornerstone of the foc model is providing these services in an integrated way - rather than as stand-alone services- and with a long-term commitment to helping clients reach their goals. Targeted mental health - provides case…
$264,825 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,825,004.
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 2021 to 2022, from $6.1M to $7.7M (+26%).
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 61% · 2018 59% · 2019 51% · 2020 64% · 2021 51% · 2022 53% · 2023 67% · 2024 76% · 2025 68%. 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 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
Kym Hammer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $545k → $2.5M.
10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 84% · 2019 48% · 2020 56% · 2021 49% · 2022 79% · 2023 69% — broadly stable.
“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
41% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lss Property Management · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC?
- LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,504,464 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($9,020,946). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $12,504,464 in grants to LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC?
- LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE is the largest funder on record, with $9,020,946 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 38 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