Ohio · Nonprofit
W E L S LUTHERANS FOR LIFE OF METRO COLUMBUS INC
W E L S LUTHERANS FOR LIFE OF METRO COLUMBUS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($40,000). 0 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
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $52k
What W E L S Lutherans for Life of Metro Columbus Inc does
Mission
WELS Lutherans for Life is a 100% volunteer Christian organization that promotes the sanctity of life by providing educational materials and support to pregnant women and their subsequent children. In support of choosing life we provide the underprivileged families support through offering free diapers and baby wipes along with free gently used maternity clothes baby clothes children clothes childrens books and toys. All of our clients are on some type of public assistance and appreciate our assistance. We accept all clients from any nationality race religious belief that is able to show a need by being on public assistance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Providing free diapers and baby wipes. For 2025 we had 503 clients come in at least once during the year and we averaged over 250 clients a week coming to the center.
$91,155 spent99% of program spendingProviding free gently used maternity clothes baby clothes children clothes children books and toys. We have four church congregations that routinely provide donations and we have two grade schools that also encourages parents of their students to provide donations. Volunteers sort the gently used items by size and gender and use a 17x13 dedicated room to store and display the donated items. Since all of the items are donated we do not have any expenses besides our overhead costs such as rent but receive enough donations that the room is always full of inventory and many clients take items from it.
$69 spent0% of program spendingChristmas gifts for children. Since all of our clients are on some type of public assistance we give Christmas presents to the children of our clients. The joy in the childrens eyes when receiving a present from a stranger is priceless!!
$1,180 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $92,404.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $130k to $86k (−33%).
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 W E L S LUTHERANS FOR LIFE OF METRO COLUMBUS INC’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. 2 of the last 4 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.
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.
From the IRS filings of W E L S LUTHERANS FOR LIFE OF METRO COLUMBUS 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.
Where its funders are
100% of W E L S LUTHERANS FOR LIFE OF METRO COLUMBUS INC'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. $40k 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
W E L S LUTHERANS FOR LIFE OF METRO COLUMBUS INC's revenue fell 52% between 2022 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like W E L S LUTHERANS FOR LIFE OF METRO COLUMBUS INC
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds W E L S LUTHERANS FOR LIFE OF METRO COLUMBUS INC?
- W E L S LUTHERANS FOR LIFE OF METRO COLUMBUS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($40,000). 0 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 W E L S LUTHERANS FOR LIFE OF METRO COLUMBUS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $40,000 in grants to W E L S LUTHERANS FOR LIFE OF METRO COLUMBUS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of W E L S LUTHERANS FOR LIFE OF METRO COLUMBUS INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like W E L S LUTHERANS FOR LIFE OF METRO COLUMBUS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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