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ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF MOUND

ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF MOUND (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,217 to it, the largest being The Clear Creek Foundation ($43,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$128k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$131k
Net assets
$2.6M
6/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($215k) Expenses 100 ($76k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 67 ($144k) Expenses 123 ($94k) Net assets 92 ($2.1M)2019 Revenue 47 ($101k) Expenses 117 ($90k) Net assets 103 ($2.4M)2020 Revenue 40 ($86k) Expenses 122 ($93k) Net assets 103 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 77 ($167k) Expenses 138 ($105k) Net assets 112 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 55 ($118k) Expenses 138 ($105k) Net assets 98 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 48 ($103k) Expenses 139 ($106k) Net assets 106 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 59 ($128k) Expenses 143 ($109k) Net assets 112 ($2.6M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (59)Expenses (143)Net assets (112)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$139k
’17
$51k
’18
$11k
’19
−$8k
’20
$62k
’21
$12k
’22
−$3k
’23
$19k
’24
11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $250 → $27k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF MOUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 funders by total. Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF MOUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

33%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 44% · 2022 64% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

How long its funders stay

40% of ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF MOUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

76% of ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF MOUND's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

WA
MN
WI
MO
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Organizations like ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF MOUND

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 Minnesota

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF MOUND: 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 ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF MOUND?
ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF MOUND (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,217 to it, the largest being The Clear Creek Foundation ($43,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF MOUND have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $131,217 in grants to ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF MOUND, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF MOUND?
The Clear Creek Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $43,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF MOUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 16 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing