Lutheran Outdoor Ministries

Analysis

Lutheran Outdoor Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Lutheran Outdoor Ministries reported income of $467k and spending of $405k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $253k to $467k (+85%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Lutheran Outdoor Ministries sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include True Light Christian Assembly ($467k), The Adventure Rabbi Trips ($467k) and International Pentecostal Holiness Foundation Inc ($466k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 58% and program service revenue 36% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $98k. At year end it held assets of $365k against liabilities of $3,200, net assets of $362k. It reported 1 employees.