Lutheran Family and Childrens Services Foundation Inc

Analysis

Lutheran Family and Childrens Services Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in St Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Lutheran Family and Childrens Services Foundation Inc reported income of $440k and spending of $758k, spending 172% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.9m to $440k (-85%), an average of -37% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 204%. Over the whole period it spent 26% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Lutheran Family and Childrens Services Foundation Inc sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 5-Cities Community Service Foundation ($440k), Equifund Organization Inc ($440k) and Community Foundation of Oyster Bay Inc ($440k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 50% of the total. At year end it held assets of $20.2m against liabilities of $709k, net assets of $19.5m.