Lutheran Child & Family Service of Michigan

Analysis

Lutheran Child & Family Service of Michigan is a registered charity in United States, based in Saginaw, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1956, 70 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 Child & Family Service of Michigan reported income of $27.1m and spending of $25.7m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $22.2m to $27.1m (+22%), an average of +5.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lutheran Child & Family Service of Michigan sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include South Carolina Youth Advocate Program Inc ($27.1m), Clarity Care Inc ($27.1m) and Nupath Inc ($27.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.4% and program service revenue 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $13.7m. At year end it held assets of $19.7m against liabilities of $12.2m, net assets of $7.5m. It reported 451 employees.