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ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF AMOR

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF AMOR (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,500 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($11,500). 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
$31k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$849k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Zion Lutheran Church Foundation of Amor does

Mission

Religious & community programs

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide religious programs/training for elca members - scholarships/seminary and scholarships/camperships to students - provide funding for community nonprofit organizations

    $17,805 spentof which $17,805 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,805.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue -32 ($-4685) Expenses 100 ($13k) Net assets 100 ($478k)2018 Revenue 100 ($15k) Expenses 112 ($14k) Net assets 98 ($469k)2019 Revenue 67 ($10k) Expenses 123 ($16k) Net assets 104 ($499k)2020 Revenue -274 ($-40214) Expenses 133 ($17k) Net assets 115 ($552k)2021 Revenue 181 ($27k) Expenses 93 ($12k) Net assets 138 ($658k)2022 Revenue 149 ($22k) Expenses 198 ($25k) Net assets 132 ($633k)2023 Revenue 156 ($23k) Expenses 223 ($28k) Net assets 137 ($652k)2024 Revenue 155 ($23k) Expenses 185 ($23k) Net assets 157 ($749k)2025 Revenue 212 ($31k) Expenses 147 ($19k) Net assets 178 ($849k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (212)Expenses (147)Net assets (178)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $552k to $658k (+19%).

$478k
$469k
$499k
$552k
$658k
$633k
$652k
$749k
$849k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

33% of ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF AMOR’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,675 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$17k
’17
$468
’18
−$6k
’19
−$57k
’20
$15k
’21
−$3k
’22
−$5k
’23
−$715
’24
$12k
’25
8.5
months of
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed788889
Joined·+1+1+0+1+1
No longer listed·01010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1

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 ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF AMOR’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 ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF AMOR'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. $12k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF AMOR runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,232 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin40% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,232 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF AMOR

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF AMOR?
ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF AMOR (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,500 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($11,500). 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 ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF AMOR have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $11,500 in grants to ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF AMOR, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF AMOR?
THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING is the largest funder on record, with $11,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF AMOR 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing