Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Analysis

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a registered charity in United States, based in Viroqua, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1987, 39 years ago. 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 December 2023, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America reported income of $423k and spending of $612k, spending 145% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $230k to $423k (+84%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 132% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Woodrow Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($423k), H I R E Housing Development Fund Corporation ($423k) and Breakfast Group ($423k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $222k. At year end it held assets of $6.1m against liabilities of $7.3m, net assets of -$1.2m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.