Lutheran Outdoors Ministry of Texas Inc

Analysis

Lutheran Outdoors Ministry of Texas Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in LA Grange, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2008, 18 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 Outdoors Ministry of Texas Inc reported income of $5.7m and spending of $3.0m, leaving 48% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.0m to $5.7m (+186%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 230%. Over the whole period it spent 50% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Lutheran Outdoors Ministry of Texas Inc 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 93rd percentile, and in the 95th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Experience Reality Inc ($5.7m), Bellevue Foundation Inc ($5.7m) and Jewish Community Foundation Inc ($5.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 64% and program service revenue 36% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $851k. At year end it held assets of $16.5m against liabilities of $2.6m, net assets of $13.9m. It reported 76 employees.