California · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,299,125 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($455,475). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $39M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Lutheran Social Services of Southern California does
Mission
Ignited by faith, we live out god's love by embracing, equipping and empowering vulnerable individuals, families and communities toward self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sharing the love of christ, we seek to form a community where the vulnerable are safer and stronger, the dependent are self-sustaining, the isolated dwell in community, and the weary are given hope.
$15,665,463 spentof which $3,414,727 as grants$1,651,911 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,665,463.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $26M to $40M (+57%).
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: 2021 88% · 2022 86% · 2023 85% · 2024 83% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Dr Lasharnda Beckwith
President & CEO
Board chair
Andrew Mansmann
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $219k → $238k.
13 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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: $1.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lutheran Social Services Foundation of Southern California). These are real filings, and they are not money LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA raised.
From the IRS filings of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
95% 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 51% · 2019 41% · 2020 32% · 2021 43% · 2022 44% · 2023 17% — 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
35% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
74% of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $931k 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.
Against its field
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 490 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.3M on record.
- Department of Education$6.3M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$2.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$755k
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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lutheran Social Services Foundation of Southern California · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,299,125 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($455,475). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,299,125 in grants to LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $455,475 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 42 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