New York · Nonprofit
THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK
THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $69 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($69). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $435k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $69
- Net assets
- $401k
What The Lutheran Service Society of New York does
Mission
The Lutheran Service Society of New York is a not-for-profit organization providing various social services to individuals and families in the western new york area. These services include programs for the developmentally disabled and elderly, pastoral care, adoption and family counseling.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Human care services - are provided to individuals, families, and individuals with intellectual disabilities, to help improve their quality of life. Services may include: linkage and referral, identification of benefits and entitlements, affordable housing, problem management, and advocacy.adoption services - this program provides home study investigation, reports, decision making consultation, and follow-up reports for persons interested in pursuing international adoptions.lutheran manor apartments - affordable rental property for elderly.other social services
$256,913 spent$251,288 earned by the program95% of program spendingPastoral/spiritual care (faces)- providing an opportunity for people with intellectual and other disabilities to celebrate their faith in god via activities, connections, expression and song in a number of settings.
$12,186 spent$2,100 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $269,099.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $430k (−57%).
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: 2020 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Susan Lichtenthal
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $36.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lutheran Service Society Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK raised.
From the IRS filings of THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK’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
100% of THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69 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
THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Lutheran Service Society Foundation · exempt
- Lss Properties · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: 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 THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK?
- THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $69 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($69). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $69 in grants to THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $69 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), 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