Missouri · Nonprofit
LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS
LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,952 to it, the largest being CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION ($62,800). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $152k
- Net assets
- $93k
What Lutherans in Medical Missions does
Mission
medically serving underserved populations
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
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$0 spentof which $11,000 as grants
The 7 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $74k to $93k (+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.
99% of LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sharon Thomas
Executive Director
Board chair
Linda Jurgens
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $33k → $13k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS’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
LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS: 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 LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS?
- LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,952 to it, the largest being CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION ($62,800). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $151,952 in grants to LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS?
- CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $62,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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