Montana · Nonprofit
St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc
St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc (Montana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,179,305 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA INCORPORATED ($2,513,279). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc does
Mission
St. John's Lutheran Ministries is a community of diverse people sharing God's healing presence. Our mission is to provide living opportunities within nurturing environments of hope, dignity & love.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
St. John's Operations - St. John's Lutheran Ministries, Inc. is a ministry to the world given by 25 local Lutheran (ELCA) ownership congregations who are committed to caring for people regardless of religious preference, race/national origin, gender/age/marital status, diagnosis/disability, or financial status. St. John's began as a HUD facility (115 beds) in 1963 and has grown into one of the largest providers of senior housing and long-term care services in the State of Montana. We offer a full continuum of care providing low-income housing, assisted living, skilled nursing, and independent living, as well as childcare, rehabilitation/home health, child adoption services and many other support services to enhance the lives of those we serve. (Continued on Schedule O)Overall, we served 947 seniors on our campus in 2024 as well as 1,355 seniors in outlying communities. The below are examples of that support. Program Service Accomplishments:Skilled Nursing Services - We operate a 36 bed transitional rehab unit as well as 52 skilled nursing beds located in four individual cottages. During 2024, St. John's nursing division cared for 455 residents providing 29,335 patient days of…
$26,558,142 spentof which $38,964 as grants$27,119,241 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $26,558,142.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $38M to $47M (+25%).
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: 2019 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 12% · 2022 2% · 2023 10% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
David Trost
CEO
Board chair
Mina Morse
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $85k → $807k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $432k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St John's Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc’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
St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 84% · 2019 75% · 2020 36% · 2021 82% · 2022 60% · 2023 79% — 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
44% of St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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.
Against its field
St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- St John's Foundation · exempt
- Home-Based Services Initiative LLC · exempt
- The Lutheran Center · exempt
- Chapel Court LLP · partnership
- SJU Holdings LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc?
- St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc (Montana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,179,305 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA INCORPORATED ($2,513,279). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $4,179,305 in grants to St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc?
- LUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $2,513,279 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 17 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