Lutheran Service Society of Western Pennsylvania

Analysis

Lutheran Service Society of Western Pennsylvania is a registered charity in United States, based in Pittsburgh, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1961, 65 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Lutheran Service Society of Western Pennsylvania reported income of $2.0m and spending of $1.9m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.6m to $2.0m (+21%), an average of +4.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lutheran Service Society of Western Pennsylvania sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mobility Training and Independent Living Program Inc ($2.0m), Tommys Place Foundation Inc ($2.0m) and Share the Table Inc ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.8% and program service revenue 92% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $805k. At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $1.6m, net assets of $1.7m.