Lutheran Brethren Home Health Services Inc

Analysis

Lutheran Brethren Home Health Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Fergus Falls, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1974, 52 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 April 2023, Lutheran Brethren Home Health Services Inc reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.5m, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2019 to April 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.4m (+22%), an average of +5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2020, when income dropped by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 143% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Lutheran Brethren Home Health Services Inc sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brentwood Oaks Christian Services Incorporated ($1.4m), New Jersey Association of Community Providers Inc ($1.4m) and Counseling Partners of Los Angeles ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 84% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $666k. At year end it held assets of $483k against liabilities of $4.5m, net assets of -$4.0m. It reported 17 employees.

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.