Lutheran Counseling and Family Services of Wisconsin Inc

Analysis

Lutheran Counseling and Family Services of Wisconsin Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Wauwatosa, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1944, 82 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 Counseling and Family Services of Wisconsin Inc reported income of $2.1m and spending of $2.2m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $2.1m (+65%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 62%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lutheran Counseling and Family Services of Wisconsin Inc sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hope Clinic and Care Center Inc ($2.1m), Invest for Kids Inc ($2.1m) and Daily Bread Community Food Pantry Inc ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 23% and program service revenue 75% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $124k (5.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $331k, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 36 employees.