Illinois · Nonprofit
ST MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION
ST MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $138,000 to it, the largest being LAVERN T BUSSE & AUDREY BUSSE FOUNDATION ($138,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $138k
- Net assets
- $349k
What St Mark Lutheran Church Foundation does
Mission
Ministries and Mission Support
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Church School to provide Mission Support
$0 spentof which $11,000 as grantsChristian Missionaries Organizations providing community support services
$0 spentof which $49,075 as grantsEducational Grants
$0 spentof which $5,000 as grants
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $376k to $349k (−7%).
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.
58% of ST MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of ST MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
ST MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
ST MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ST MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION: 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 MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION?
- ST MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $138,000 to it, the largest being LAVERN T BUSSE & AUDREY BUSSE FOUNDATION ($138,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $138,000 in grants to ST MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION?
- LAVERN T BUSSE & AUDREY BUSSE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $138,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 1 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