Ohio · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,830,650 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($1,236,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Lutheran Social Services of Northwestern Ohio does
Mission
In response to god's love for all persons, Lutheran Social Services of Northwestern Ohio provides human services that will strengthen the mental, moral, physical, social, and spiritual well-being of those who seek this agency's services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Northwestern ohio and southeastern michigan programs provide mental health & educational services, including teletherapy, as well as substance use disorders for individuals and family on a sliding scale in four office locations. The agency provided no cost financial coaching to individuals as well as housing assistance. Other programs that the organization provides under social services are emergency food pantries in multiple locations, reentry transition services, and the organization provides an employer resource network (ern) in which they are the lead agency throughout northwest ohio.
$2,025,844 spentof which $762,084 as grants$601,498 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,025,844.
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 2019 to 2020, from $756k to $4.8M (+531%).
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 18% · 2018 22% · 2019 20% · 2020 48% · 2021 65% · 2022 68% · 2023 75% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Terri Rodriguez
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $310k → $21k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $2.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lutheran Social Services of Northwestern Ohio Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO raised.
From the IRS filings of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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 NORTHWESTERN OHIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 NORTHWESTERN OHIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 67% · 2019 61% · 2020 66% · 2021 59% · 2022 69% · 2023 71% — 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 NORTHWESTERN OHIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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 NORTHWESTERN OHIO draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 NORTHWESTERN OHIO
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 20 related entities
- Filling Memorial Home of Mercy Inc · exempt
- Filling Home Foundation · exempt
- Fmhm Community Living · exempt
- Fulfilling Housing Inc · exempt
- Fulfilling Housing II Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO?
- LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,830,650 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($1,236,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,830,650 in grants to LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO?
- LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,236,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 12 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