Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION
SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,000 to it, the largest being CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $38k
What South Asia Lutheran Mission does
Mission
To promote education and literacy through teaching and publishing outstanding resources with emphasis on needs of south asia
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide in-person teaching of Luthers Small Catechism to Nepalese communites in Nepal and India, as well as anaccredited course at the Lutheran School of Theology in Kimuka Kenya
$45,522 spent92% of program spendingIncrease the number of copyright free English resources that aremade freely available globally, in English and in otherSouth Asian languages
$4,084 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $49,606.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $24k to $38k (+61%).
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.
97% of SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION’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. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION’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
SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION.
“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
74% of SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,142 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION
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 Pennsylvania
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION: 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 SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION?
- SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,000 to it, the largest being CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $27,000 in grants to SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION?
- CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH ASIA LUTHERAN MISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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